Víctor García

Víctor Garcia (born 4 December 1974) is a Spanish film director best known for his award-winning short film El ciclo and the 2007 American horror film Return to House on Haunted Hill.

Career Garcia was born in Barcelona, Spain, in December 1974 and spent most of his early life there. His first job in the motion picture industry was as a special effects technician, When the film won the Best Horror Short award at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, However, the film never went forward. Within a month, Garcia was hired by After Dark Films to make his feature film directorial debut helming Return to House on Haunted Hill (a sequel to the 1999 remake of House on Haunted Hill). Return to House on Haunted Hill was a straight-to-DVD release, after which Garcia directed several short webisodes for Sam Raimi's Ghost House Pictures.

In August 2010, Garcia directed the straight-to-DVD horror film Hellraiser: Revelations for The Weinstein Company. This was followed in 2012 by Gallows Hill, a film about an American family in Colombia who free a young girl kept captive by an innkeeper, only to discover they've unleashed a terrible evil. The Peter Facinelli starrer was premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2013. Gallows Hill was renamed The Damned and released in October 2013. It did little box office, and received poor reviews. Jeannette Catsoulis in The New York Times called it "tepid".

Garcia was tapped in July 2013 to direct a horror film based on the limited series comic Crawl To Me. The story follows two young adults with a child who move into a remote farmhouse only to find an evil presence in the basement.