S. Craig Zahler

S. Craig Zahler

Birth : 1973-01-23, Miami, Florida, USA

History

Steven Craig Zahler (born January 23, 1973 in Miami, Florida) is an American novelist, screenwriter, film director, cinematographer, and musician, best known for his idiosyncratic work in the exploitation, crime and horror genres, including his critically acclaimed films "Bone Tomahawk" (2015), "Brawl in Cell Block 99" (2017), and "Dragged Across Concrete" (2018).

Profile

S. Craig Zahler
S. Craig Zahler

Movies

Dragged Across Concrete
Original Music Composer
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
Dragged Across Concrete
Screenplay
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
Dragged Across Concrete
Director
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich
Screenplay
A recently divorced young man discovers a mint condition Blade doll in his deceased brother's closet and plans to sell the toy at a convention in Oregon celebrating the 30th anniversary of the infamous Toulon Murders. All hell breaks loose during the auction when a strange force animates all of the puppets throughout the convention, setting them on a bloody killing spree.
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Original Music Composer
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Writer
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Brawl in Cell Block 99
Director
After working as a drug courier and getting into a brutal shootout with police, a former boxer finds himself at the mercy of his enemies as they force him to instigate violent acts that turn the prison he resides in into a battleground.
Bone Tomahawk
Original Music Composer
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
Bone Tomahawk
Writer
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
Bone Tomahawk
Director
During a shootout in a saloon, Sheriff Hunt injures a suspicious stranger. The doctor's assistant, wife of the local foreman, tends to him in prison. That night, the town is attacked and they both disappear—only the arrow of a cannibal tribe is found. Hunt and a few of his men go in search of the prisoner and the foreman's wife.
The Incident
Screenplay
A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm
Air Guitar Nation
If your bedroom has become too small a stage for your air guitar antics, take inspiration from the competitors featured here as they battle their way from the inaugural U.S. Air Guitar Championship to the world championship in Oulu, Finland. Along the way, filmmaker Alexandra Lipsitz documents the fierce rivalries that develop as would-be rock legends vie for top honors in technical accuracy, stage presence and "airness."
The Big Stone Grid
Writer
A pair of New York cops investigating a series of sadistic murders are drawn into a strange underground extortion scheme that's growing bigger by the day.
The Big Stone Grid
Director
A pair of New York cops investigating a series of sadistic murders are drawn into a strange underground extortion scheme that's growing bigger by the day.
Wraiths of the Broken Land
Writer
Desperate to reclaim two kidnapped sisters who were forced into prostitution, the Plugfords storm across the badlands to save them.
The Brigands of Rattlecreek
Screenplay
A sheriff and a doctor seek revenge against a group of bandits who used the cover of a torrential rainstorm to rob and terrorize their small town.
Hug Chickenpenny
Producer
The story of Hug, a hopeful, physically asymmetrical boy, facing challenges in an orphanage, and the strange and dangerous world outside after his adoption by an eccentric old man as a pet.
Hug Chickenpenny
Novel
The story of Hug, a hopeful, physically asymmetrical boy, facing challenges in an orphanage, and the strange and dangerous world outside after his adoption by an eccentric old man as a pet.
Hug Chickenpenny
Screenplay
The story of Hug, a hopeful, physically asymmetrical boy, facing challenges in an orphanage, and the strange and dangerous world outside after his adoption by an eccentric old man as a pet.
Hug Chickenpenny
Director
The story of Hug, a hopeful, physically asymmetrical boy, facing challenges in an orphanage, and the strange and dangerous world outside after his adoption by an eccentric old man as a pet.