American director, writer Jeff Burr, the horror
specialist who directed Vincent Price in one of his last movies and entries in
the “Texas Chainsaw Massacre II”, “Puppet Master”, “Pumpkinhead” and the ‘Stepfather’
franchises, has died. He was 60. Burr died October 10, 2023 in his sleep in
Dalton, Georgia, of apparent complications from a stroke. Jeffrey Burr was born
in Aurora, Ohio, on July 18, 1963, and raised in Dalton, Georgia where he
became a fan of movie monsters and made his own Super-8 pictures while in
junior high school. He attended USC but left after three years to finish a
short film, “Divided We Fall” (1982), about two brothers on opposing sides of
the Civil War who meet on the battlefield. Jeff directed one Euro-western, 1999’s
“Phantom Town” starring Taylor Locke, John Patrick White and Lauren Summers. The
movie was filmed in Romania.
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