Jeff Lieberman

Jeff Lieberman was born in 1947 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.^[2] He made his feature film debut as the writer and director of the nature horror film Squirm (1976), about earthworms inundating a small Southern town and wreaking havoc.^[3] His following film, Blue Sunshine (1977), followed a series of murders in Los Angeles, connected to the killers' use of a certain strain of LSD.^[4] Blue Sunshine screened at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the London Film Festival and Edinburgh International Film Festival.^[4] In 1981, Lieberman wrote and directed the slasher film Just Before Dawn, about a group of campers stalked by a killer in the backwoods of Oregon.^[5]

In 1988, Lieberman wrote and directed Remote Control, a science fiction film following a video store clerk who discovers a videotape circulating in his store is brainwashing its viewers.^[6] He subsequently wrote the screenplay for The NeverEnding Story III (1994).^[6] He later wrote and directed the satirical comedy horror film Satan's Little Helper (2004).^[7]