David Slade

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David Slade
Slade at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con
Born	David Aldrin Slade (1969-09-26) 26 September 1969 (age 55) United Kingdom
Occupation(s)	Actor, director
Years active	1994–present

David Aldrin Slade (born 26 September 1969) is a British film and television director and actor. His works include the films Hard Candy, 30 Days of Night and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Slade is also a director for television, directing episodes for Breaking Bad, Awake, Hannibal, Crossbones, Powers, American Gods and Black Mirror. Before he was a film director, Slade was a director of commercials and music videos.

Life and career

Slade at the London premiere of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, 2010

He started his career making amateur music videos for local bands in the south of England. He had his films processed by an elderly woman who developed super 8 films for cheap in her bathtub. His first professional job was directing a commercial for the video game Silent Hill, for the English market.^[1] His first feature film, Hard Candy, was released in 2005 by Lions Gate Entertainment, who purchased the independent movie at the Sundance Film Festival.^[2] He went on to direct the vampire film 30 Days of Night in 2007.^[3] Slade directed The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,^[4] the third film in the Twilight film series.^[5]

In a Twitter post, Slade listed his favorite films as Performance, Wings of Desire, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, and Possession.^[6] Slade also attributes Performance as his main inspiration for becoming a film director.^[7]

Filmography

Feature films

• Hard Candy (2005)
• 30 Days of Night (2007)
• The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
• Nightmare Cinema (2018) (segment: This Way to Egress)
• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
• Dark Harvest (2023)

Music videos

• Scheer's "Wish You Were Dead"
• Beaumont Hannant's "Utuba"
• DJ Hooligan's "Rave Nation"
• Speedy J's "Symmetry" (animated video piece titled "Corpus Porpoise Posthumous Non Polhemus")
• EMF's "Bleeding You Dry"
• Aphex Twin's "Donkey Rhubarb"
• Collapsed Lung's "Eat My Goal"
• LFO's "Tied Up"
• C. J. Bolland's "Sugar Is Sweeter"
• Babybird's "If You'll Be Mine"
• DJ Rap's "Good to Be Alive" (original UK version)
• 3 Colours Red's "Beautiful Day"
• Apollo 440's "Stop the Rock"
• Stone Temple Pilots' "Sour Girl"
• OPM's "Heaven Is a Halfpipe"
• Maxim's "Carmen Queasy"
• P.O.D.'s "School of Hard Knocks"
• Stereophonics' "Mr. Writer"
• Muse's "New Born"
• Muse's "Bliss"
• Muse's "Hyper Music"
• Muse's "Feeling Good"
• Tori Amos' "Strange Little Girl"
• David Gray's "This Year's Love"
• System of a Down's "Aerials"
• The Music's "Take the Long Road and Walk It"
• Rob Dougan's "Clubbed to Death"
• Starsailor's "Poor Misguided Fool"
• AFI's "Girl's Not Grey"
• Turin Brakes' "Pain Killer"
• The Killers' "Goodnight, Travel Well" for UNICEF in conjunction with MTV EXIT

Short films

• I Smell Quality (1994)
• Do Geese See God? (2004)
• MEATDOG: What's Fer Dinner (2008)^[8]

Television series

• Breaking Bad
  • Episode 4.03 – "Open House"
• Awake
  • Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
• Hannibal
  • Episode 1.01 – "Apéritif"
  • Episode 1.03 – "Potage"
  • Episode 1.13 – "Savoureux"
  • Episode 2.11 – "Kō No Mono"
  • Episode 2.13 – "Mizumono"
• Crossbones
  • Episode 1.01 – "The Devil's Dominion"
• Powers
  • Episode 1.01 – "Pilot"
  • Episode 1.02 – "Like a Power"
• American Gods
  • Episode 1.01 – "The Bone Orchard"
  • Episode 1.02 – "The Secret of Spoons"
  • Episode 1.03 – "Head Full of Snow"
• Black Mirror
  • Episode 4.05 – "Metalhead"
  • Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
• Barkskins
  • Episode 1.01 "New France"
  • Episode 1.02 "The Turtle King"

References

1. "David Slade - My First Shoot". Myfirstshoot.com. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
2. "Press Conference: Interviews with the Cast & Crew of 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse'". BloodyDisgusting. 14 June 2010.
3. "Twilight Saga: Eclipse Gets a New Editor; Muse Dropped from Soundtrack". DreadCentral. 9 August 2012.
4. "David Slade Talks Twilight Saga: Eclipse; New TV Spot "Something New"". DreadCentral. 10 June 2010.
5. "David Slade to Direct Summit Entertainment's The Twilight Saga: Eclipse" (Press release). Summit Entertainment. 22 April 2009. Retrieved 22 April 2009.
6. DAVID A SLADE [@DAVID_A_SLADE] (5 March 2012). "ALL TIME top 5 "PERFORMANCE"Roeg/Cammell. "WINGS OF DESIRE" Wim Wenders. "2001/Clockwork Orange" Kubrick "POSSESSION" Zulawski No surprises" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
7. DAVID A SLADE [@DAVID_A_SLADE] (5 March 2012). "@AussieBecka Nic Roeg/Donald Cammell's "Performance"" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
8. "So Funny, It's Scary: Hollywood's Top Horror Directors to Bring Original Comedy Pilots to Xbox 360 This Fall". Microsoft. 23 July 2008. Archived from the original on 5 September 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2008.

External links

• David Slade at IMDb