David DeCoteau: Oregon’s Horror Film Director
Before becoming the movie director that we have come to know and respect today; David Decoteau was born in Portland, Oregon on January 5, 1962. The famed director got his start in the film industry by taking on a job given to him by the legendary Roger Corman. Corman hired Decoteau to be a production assistant as the young age of 18 years old. In 1986, David got his chance to prove himself by directing his first film for another Hollywood legend Charles Band. After his first film, he later got the chance to progress forward and begin to dabble in the motion picture industry, as well as executive producing for various filmmakers.
For over twenty years, DeCoteau has created over eighty low budget films. Most of the movies that he has directed are soft-core horror movies for the production company Full Moon Pictures. After working for other companies, David decided to start his own production company eccentrically named Rapid Hearts Pictures. Seemingly, that may be a play on words because of that fact that horror movies do have a tendency to make the heart race. David’s movies never contain the standard buxom beauties, but very handsome male actors that are scantily dressed and behaving very erotically.