Stephen Susco

Stephen Susco at the Sundance Film Festival 2007

Stephen Vincent Susco (born October 24, 1972 in Philadelphia ) is an American screenwriter , film producer and director .

Life

Stephen Susco was born in Philadelphia and raised in Bucks County . He graduated from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Southern California .

He has been working as a screenwriter since 1996. In 2004, his screenplay for the horror film The Curse - The Grudge was filmed, which was based on the Japanese film Juon: The Curse by Takashi Shimizu . Susco also wrote the script for the sequel The Curse - The Grudge 2 . Susco provided the story for the horror film Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013).

In 2018 he made his directorial debut with the Blumhouse production Unfriended: Dark Web , for which he also wrote the script.

Susco has been married to writer Bridget Foley since 2005. The couple have two children and after a few years in Los Angeles and Pennsylvania have lived in Bellevue , Washington since 2014 .

Filmography (selection)

Screenwriter

• 2004: The Grudge (The Grudge)
• 2006: The Curse - The Grudge 2 (The Grudge 2)
• 2008: Red
• 2010: High School - We're closing the school (High School)
• 2013: Texas Chainsaw 3D (Story)
• 2014: The Reach: Beyond the Reach
• 2018: Unknown User: Dark Web (Unfriended: Dark Web)

film producer

• 1996: Mr. October (short film)
• 2017: Day 13

Director

• 2018: Unknown User: Dark Web (Unfriended: Dark Web)

Web links

Commons : Stephen Susco  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Stephen Susco in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Jim Vines: Q&A: The Working Screenwriter: An In-the-Trenches Perspective of Writing Movies in Today's Film Industry . AuthorHouse, 2006, ISBN 978-1425968465 , page 23 .
2. ^ ^{A b} Megan Campbell: Happy Endings: A relationship built on stories . In: theeastsidescene.com, accessed March 11, 2018.