A former document government and songwriter for Elvis Presley, amongst others, David Hess discovered better notoriety as the daddy determine for a workforce of cruel killers in Wes Craven’s still-shocking “The Final Space at the Left.”
Hess’s harrowing efficiency outlined his display appearing occupation, which integrated similarly diabolical characters in Ruggero Deodato’s “Space at the Fringe of the Park” and Pasquale Festa Campanile’s “Hitch-Hike,” in addition to much less unhinged dangerous man roles in Craven’s “Swamp Factor,” amongst others.
Off-screen, Hess wrote English-language capturing scripts for Eu administrators like Rainer Werner Fassbinder, taught appearing on the California Movie Institute, and not strayed too a long way from his track occupation (which integrated the despair psych-folk songs featured in “Final Space” and later at the soundtrack for “Cabin Fever, in addition to a number of album releases).
However it’s his teetering-on-the-edge antagonists, so shut to palpable risk and insanity, for which he will be remembered with a mixture of fondness and concern by means of devotees of hardcore horror.
