Writing

Rebecca Swan

Born January 19, 1970 · Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (age 56)

Rebecca Swan was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1970. She is the co-screenwriter of director John Carpenter's two Masters of Horror episodes: Cigarette Burns and Pro-Life, produced as part of the series for Showtime. She co-wrote "Skin & Bones" for the the Masters of Horror follow-up show Fear Itself. Swan's most recent work is the 2018 horror movie Extremity and The Final Interview.

Known For

Extremity

Extremity · 2018

A young woman with a severely troubled past signs up for an extreme haunt called Perdition. She believes that putting herself through Perdition's nightmarish trials will help her exorcise her internal traumas, but has no way of knowing just how shocking her ordeal will be-or what dark secrets buried in her psyche will emerge.

Fart: The Movie

Fart: The Movie · 1991

Fart: The Movie

Russell has two passions: watching television and farting! He also loves Heather. Heather HATES farting. The eternal triangle! One day she warns him, "if they ever allow farting on television, you'll never leave the house!" One evening he goes to sleep in front of the TV, and "it" happens. Virtually everything on TV is fart related, from sitcoms and commercials, to newscasts and dramas.

Cigarette Burns

Cigarette Burns · 2005

Cigarette Burns

MovieHorrorTV Movie

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.

Pro-Life

Pro-Life · 2006

MovieHorrorThriller

Angelique, a traumatized fifteen year old, is taken to an abortion clinic to end her pregnancy. However, her deeply religious father and three brothers are out to make sure the baby lives.

Maskhead

Maskhead · 2009

MASKHEAD tells the depraved tale of Syl and Maddie, a lesbian couple who produce extreme fetish and dark specialty movies. With the help of their sociopathic associate, The Cowboy, the ladies audition numerous up-and-coming talent to star in their top selling, stomach-turning fetish series: “MASKHEAD,” which features a large man in a bizarre mask who tortures and kills his “co-stars” on camera.

The Final Interview

The Final Interview · 2018

The Final Interview

A veteran newscaster desperate for ratings secures an interview with a mass murderer on death row the night before the man is set to be executed. What our newscaster thinks will be an easy ratings boost turns into a dangerous psychological game between two manipulative alpha males.

Creepypasta

Creepypasta · 2023

Trapped in an abandoned house, a nameless man desperately searches for clues to how he got there. The answer is hidden within a series of disturbing viral videos - each of which begins to infect his mind.

Big Junior

Big Junior · 2010

MovieHorrorComedy

Big Junior comes to town with a briefcase loaded with heroin. He has a meeting set up in his motel room with Skip Fawn, a local drug dealer/pimp. Fawn's girlfriend, a trashy whore named Lainey, comes along for the buy. The drug deal goes off without a hitch, but the rest of the evening quickly becomes a dark journey into total depravity and shocking real-world horror.

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Extremity

Extremity · 2018

A young woman with a severely troubled past signs up for an extreme haunt called Perdition. She believes that putting herself through Perdition's nightmarish trials will help her exorcise her internal traumas, but has no way of knowing just how shocking her ordeal will be-or what dark secrets buried in her psyche will emerge.

Second Unit Director

Fart: The Movie

Fart: The Movie · 1991

Fart: The Movie

Russell has two passions: watching television and farting! He also loves Heather. Heather HATES farting. The eternal triangle! One day she warns him, "if they ever allow farting on television, you'll never leave the house!" One evening he goes to sleep in front of the TV, and "it" happens. Virtually everything on TV is fart related, from sitcoms and commercials, to newscasts and dramas.

Writer

Cigarette Burns

Cigarette Burns · 2005

Cigarette Burns

MovieHorrorTV Movie

With a torrid past that haunts him, a movie theatre owner is hired to search for the only existing print of a film so notorious that its single screening caused the viewers to become homicidally insane.

Writer

Pro-Life

Pro-Life · 2006

MovieHorrorThriller

Angelique, a traumatized fifteen year old, is taken to an abortion clinic to end her pregnancy. However, her deeply religious father and three brothers are out to make sure the baby lives.

Writer

Maskhead

Maskhead · 2009

MASKHEAD tells the depraved tale of Syl and Maddie, a lesbian couple who produce extreme fetish and dark specialty movies. With the help of their sociopathic associate, The Cowboy, the ladies audition numerous up-and-coming talent to star in their top selling, stomach-turning fetish series: “MASKHEAD,” which features a large man in a bizarre mask who tortures and kills his “co-stars” on camera.

Director

The Final Interview

The Final Interview · 2018

The Final Interview

A veteran newscaster desperate for ratings secures an interview with a mass murderer on death row the night before the man is set to be executed. What our newscaster thinks will be an easy ratings boost turns into a dangerous psychological game between two manipulative alpha males.

Writer

Creepypasta

Creepypasta · 2023

Trapped in an abandoned house, a nameless man desperately searches for clues to how he got there. The answer is hidden within a series of disturbing viral videos - each of which begins to infect his mind.

Writer

Big Junior

Big Junior · 2010

MovieHorrorComedy

Big Junior comes to town with a briefcase loaded with heroin. He has a meeting set up in his motel room with Skip Fawn, a local drug dealer/pimp. Fawn's girlfriend, a trashy whore named Lainey, comes along for the buy. The drug deal goes off without a hitch, but the rest of the evening quickly becomes a dark journey into total depravity and shocking real-world horror.

Director

Masters of Horror

Masters of Horror · 2005

Masters of Horror

SeriesDramaMystery

An anthology series written and directed by the most famous names in horror.

Writer

Fear Itself

Fear Itself · 2008

SeriesDramaMystery

A horror/suspense anthology series directed by the biggest horror directors working in feature films.

Writer