Michael Roesch

This article is about the film director. For the biathlete, see Michael Rösch.

Michael Roesch (born April 24, 1974) is a film director, film producer and screenwriter. He collaborates on his movies with fellow filmmaker Peter Scheerer.

A movie aficionado since he was a kid, Michael Roesch started shooting short 8 mm movies at age 12.^[1] While Roesch was at college, he worked as a film journalist for several newspapers and magazines. Later he started together with his writing partner Peter Scheerer a successful career as a screenwriter, and worked in various production capacities. Among their screenwriting credits are Alone in the Dark,^[2] House of the Dead 2^[3] and Far Cry.^[4]

In 2006 Roesch and Scheerer directed their first feature, the vampire thriller Brotherhood of Blood,^[5] starring Victoria Pratt, Sid Haig and Ken Foree. The movie had its world premiere at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival in Sitges, Spain in October 2007.^[6] In the US and Canada, Sam Raimi´s label Ghosthouse Underground acquired the movie, and released it through Lionsgate.^[7]

In 2007 Roesch and Scheerer directed Alone in the Dark II,^[8] starring Rick Yune,^[9] Lance Henriksen and Danny Trejo. It is a sequel to the 2005 film Alone in the Dark.

Among Roesch´s recent work as a producer is Prisoners of the Sun,^[10] directed by Academy Award winner Roger Christian and starring John Rhys-Davies and Carmen Chaplin.

Filmography

• Birds of a Feather (2019) (associate producer)
• Female Fight Club (2016) (co-executive producer)
• Viy (2014) (co-executive producer)
• Prisoners of the Sun (2013) (co-producer)
• BloodRayne: The Third Reich (2011) (associate producer)
• Blubberella (2011) (associate producer)
• Alone in the Dark II (2008) (director, screenwriter)
• Far Cry (2007) (screenwriter)
• In the Name of the King (2007) (associate producer)
• Brotherhood of Blood (2006) (director, screenwriter)
• BloodRayne (2006) (associate producer)
• House of the Dead 2 (2005) (screenwriter)
• Alone in the Dark (2005) (screenwriter)
• House of the Dead (2003) (co-executive producer)