Eric Red Biography
Eric Red (born Eric Joseph Durdaller on February 16, 1961, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is a screenwriter and director, best known for writing the horror classics The Hitcher and Near Dark.
Red attended the AFI Conservatory and graduated in 1983. His thesis script, The Hitcher, was produced in 1986, and is considered a cult-horror classic.
A major studio remake of The Hitcher was released in 2007, with Red on board as a consultant.