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8. "Film director, screenwriter..."
Thu Aug 20, 2015, 06:48 AM
Aug 2015

Checked him out on IMdB. Schaeffer has exactly ONE official credit as a screenwriter. The same movie where he also worked as an actor, editor and director.

That was his 1986 magnum dopus "Wired To Kill." Plot summary:

In the near future, law and order breaks down, diseases, violence and immorality are rampant. However, one Christian young man decides not to turn the other cheek anymore. He modifies his wheelchair to help him protect his home and family, and kill the thugs first.

(For a great movie in the Modified-Wheelchair genre, check out "FDR: American Badass." Featuring President Roosevelt using his armed wheelchair to chase Nazi werewolves. No, I'm not making that up. Great movie!)

Schaeffer has a Director credit on 3 other movies:
1992 Baby on Board
1989 Rising Storm
1988 Headhunter

So he hasn't directed a movie since 1992 or written one that got produced since 1986. Here's his complete bio and list of movie/TV work:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0769704/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

Schaeffer did appear, as a talking head, in the excellent 2013 documentary "American Jesus." That one's definitely worth watching.

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