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David J. Schow is an American author of horror novels, short stories, and screenplays. His credits include films such as The Crow and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Most of Schow's work falls into the subgenre splatterpunk, a term he is sometimes credited with coining. In the 1990s, Schow wrote Raving & Drooling, a regular column for Fangoria magazine. All 41 instalments were collected in the book Wild Hairs (2000), which won the International Horror Guild's award for best non-fiction in 2001. In 1987, Schow's novella Pamela's Get was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award for best long fiction. His short story Red Light won the 1987 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction. And in 2015, The Outer Limits at 50 won the Rondo Award for Book of the Year in a tie with The Creature Chronicles by Tom Weaver, of which Schow was a contributor. As an editor, Schow's work includes three volumes of writings by Robert Bloch and a book of short stories by John Farris. Schow has also been a past contributor to liner notes for cult film distributors Grindhouse Releasing/Box Office Spectaculars, notably on the North American DVD release of Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci's horror film, Cat in the Brain. He has also written text supplements for the DVDs of Reservoir Dogs and From Hell, and has done DVD commentaries for The Dirty Dozen, The Green Mile, Incubus, Thriller and Creature from the Black Lagoon. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Hemsworth, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
David J. Schow
Writer
for Writer in Alex Proyas's Casper (1993)
Suggested by nightmare1398
For those who don't know, Alex Proyas, the director of The Crow (1994) was approached to direct the 1990s live action Casper movie. And described it as being more darker, less comedic and more deconstructism than the final product. He described his version to be inspired by his childhood favorite, The Wizard of Oz (1939) as a timeless, fantasy story that's also compelling and emotional for kids. But with a darker tone? So basically Return to Oz? Awesome!!!!! However he left as the last minute due to creative differences. But the new director had stated he already had concept art and models sent to him for the movie so it's possible Whipstaff and the ghosts were already based on Alex Proyas's vision. The house's strange design looks seamlessly if it was in The Crow. Although he didn't direct the movie, he claimed he saw the final product but felt the emotions came off forced and was a wasted opportunity for the studio to tell a more subtle and mature story like his movies are. And he went on to make Dark City instead. Shame. :( Side note: Casper was never intended to turn into a human at the end until the last minute by the new director on set. So this means there's no human Casper nor a red angel since that was also his idea.
