David Hess’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
David Hess has 4 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s.
Recurring themes

Who Can Kill a Child?
1976
Drama · Horror

Coming Home in the Dark
2021
Crime · Horror

The Last House on the Left
2009
Crime · Thriller

The Girl Next Door
2007
Thriller · Crime

Angst
1983
Thriller · Crime

The Exorcist
1973
Horror · Drama

Hounds of Love
2016
Crime · Drama

An American Crime
2007
Crime · Drama
A bickering couple driving cross-country through California pick up a psychotic hitchhiker with two million dollars who threatens to kill them unless they take him to Mexico.
Dir. Pasquale Festa Campanile · With Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry, David Hess

On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari and friend Phyllis set off from her family home to attend a rock concert in the city. Attempting to score some drugs on the way, the pair run afoul of a group of vicious crooks, headed up by the sadistic Krug.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess
A posh couple experience car trouble on their way to a villa party and stop into a local mechanic's shop for assistance, unaware of his shady background. After he and his mentally challenged assistant fix the car, the couple invite them to the party to return the favor, leading to an evening of mayhem.
Dir. Ruggero Deodato · With David Hess, Annie Belle, Giovanni Lombardo Radice

Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing, a half-human, half-plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue government agent Alice Cable and defeat his evil arch nemesis...even if it costs him his life.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Louis Jourdan, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Wise
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