Scott Teems
Biography
Scott Teems is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his work on That Evening Sun (2009), The Quarry (2020), Halloween Kills (2021), Firestarter (2022), and Insidious: The Red Door (2023).
In 2009, Teems started his career by directing and writing the drama film That Evening Sun. In February 2012, Teems signed on to script a film version of Cutting for Stone. In October 2012, he was attached to script Scott Derrickson's horror film The Breathing Method, based on Stephen King's novella of the same name.
In 2014, he wrote and directed the documentary film Holbrook/Twain: An American Odyssey. By 2016, he scripted six episodes for the drama series Rectify, directing two of them.
In November 2018, he drafted the script for an episode of Narcos: Mexico. In 2020, he directed the mystery thriller film The Quarry, from a screenplay he wrote alongside Andrew Brotzman.
He wrote the script and story for the horror sequel Halloween Kills (2021) and also scripted the horror-thriller remake Firestarter, released in 2022.
In July 2019, Teems was announced to have drafted the story for David Gordon Green's upcoming The Exorcist: Believer. In October 2020, he was brought on board to script Insidious: The Red Door.
