Herb Freed

Herb Freed (born 1935) is an American film director and screenwriter best known for a number of horror films made in the 1970s and 1980s. His feature credits include Haunts (1976), Beyond Evil (1980), and Graduation Day (1981). Freed was born in 1935 in Youngstown, Ohio, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants.Prior to embarking on a filmmaking career, Freed served as rabbi at Temple Beth Shalom in Mahopac, New York for eight years before resigning. He relocated to Los Angeles with the intent of making films.He made his feature film debut with A.W.O.L. (1972) before co-writing and directing the psychological horror film Haunts (1976), starring May Britt and Cameron Mitchell; the latter was co-written with his then-wife, Anne Marisse. In 1980, he directed the supernatural horror film Beyond Evil, starring John Saxon and Lynda Day George.