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Born: Established:
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Germany,
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
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1 1 form y separately published work icon Winchester Winchester : The House That Ghosts Built Peter Spierig , Michael Spierig , ( dir. Peter Spierig et. al. )agent Australia : Blacklab Entertainment Diamond Pictures Bullitt Entertainment Hammer Film Productions Imagination Design Works , 2018 10031314 2018 single work film/TV horror

'Inspired by true events. On an isolated stretch of land 50 miles outside of San Francisco sits the most haunted house in the world. Built by Sarah Winchester (Academy Award winner Helen Mirren), heiress to the Winchester fortune, it is a house that knows no end. Constructed in an incessant twenty-four-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week mania for decades, it stands seven stories tall and contains hundreds of rooms.

'To the outsider it looks like a monstrous monument to a disturbed woman’s madness. But Sarah is not building for herself, for her niece (Sarah Snook), or for the brilliant Doctor Eric Price (Jason Clarke), whom she has summoned to the house. She is building a prison, an asylum for hundreds of vengeful ghosts, and the most terrifying among them have a score to settle with the Winchesters…'

Source: Production summary.

1 21 form y separately published work icon Predestination Peter Spierig , Michael Spierig , ( dir. Michael Spierig et. al. )agent Australia : Wolfhound Pictures Blacklab Entertainment , 2013 5993610 2013 single work film/TV crime thriller science fiction

'PREDESTINATION chronicles the life of a Temporal Agent sent on an intricate series of time-travel journeys designed to ensure the continuation of his law enforcement career for all eternity. Now, on his final assignment, the Agent must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time.'

Source: Screen Australia.

1 17 form y separately published work icon Daybreakers Michael Spierig , Peter Spierig , ( dir. Michael Spierig ) Paradise Productions , 2009 Z1628254 2009 single work film/TV horror science fiction

'The year is 2019. A mysterious plague has swept over the earth, transforming the majority of the world's population into vampires. Humans are now an endangered, second-class species, forced into hiding as they are hunted and farmed for vampire consumption to the brink of extinction. It's all up to Edward Dalton, a vampire researcher who refuses to feed on human blood, to perfect a blood substitute that might sustain vampires and spare the few remaining humans.'

Source: http://screenaustralia.gov.au/ (Sighted 24/09/2009).

1 1 form y separately published work icon Undead Michael Spierig , Peter Spierig , ( dir. Peter Spierig et. al. )agent Australia : Spierigfilm , 2003 Z1864361 2003 single work film/TV horror humour (taught in 1 units)

After a shower of mysterious meteorites turns the inhabitants of a small Australian fishing village into ravenous zombies, the infected must band together to find a way out.

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