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Dan Byrd has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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Based on Wes Craven's 1977 suspenseful cult classic, The Hills Have Eyes is the story of a family road trip that goes terrifyingly awry when the travelers become stranded in a government atomic zone. Miles from nowhere, the Carter family soon realizes the seemingly uninhabited wasteland is actually the breeding ground of a blood-thirsty mutant family...and they are the prey.
Dir. Alexandre Aja · With Aaron Stanford, Dan Byrd, Emilie de Ravin

Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
Dir. Will Gluck · With Emma Stone, Penn Badgley, Amanda Bynes

Routinely exploited by her wicked stepmother, the downtrodden Samantha Montgomery is excited about the prospect of meeting her Internet beau at the school's Halloween dance.
Dir. Mark Rosman · With Hilary Duff, Chad Michael Murray, Jennifer Coolidge

A group of young adults who met online are mercilessly hunted by a shadowy deep state organization after they come into possession of a near-mythical cult underground graphic novel.
Dir. Gillian Flynn · With Sasha Lane, John Cusack, Ashleigh LaThrop

Jules Cobb is a mom in her forties facing the often humorous challenges, pitfalls and rewards of life's next chapter. Along for the journey is her son, her ex-husband, her husband/neighbor and her friends who together make up her dysfunctional, but supportive and caring extended family... even if they have a funny way of showing it sometimes.
Dir. Bill Lawrence, Kevin Biegel · With Courteney Cox, Christa Miller, Busy Philipps

In the late 1940s, a murderous couple known as the 'The Lonely Hearts Killers' kills close to a dozen people. Two detectives try to nab the duo who find their targets via the personals in the paper.
Dir. Todd Robinson · With John Travolta, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto
A family moves to a small California town where they plan on starting a new life running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, suspected to be on haunted ground.
Dir. Tobe Hooper · With Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi, Bug Hall

A dark terror has come to the picture-perfect town of Jerusalem's Lot, and it's up to a writer with a haunted past to uncover the horror that has taken over the town.
With Rob Lowe, Rutger Hauer, Donald Sutherland