Ethan Wiley is a producer, screenwriter

Screenwriter

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 and director

Film director

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He wrote the screenplay for House and has written and directed several horror films, including, House II: The Second Story

House II: The Second Story

House II: The Second Story is the 1987 sequel to the 1986 film, House. While it is a sequel, this film ignores the storyline and characters from the first film, in favor of a new supernatural comedy. Also, the film's tone was much lighter than the original film and the other following sequels...

, Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror

Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror is a 1998 motion picture and the fifth installment of the Children of the Corn series. It is also the third Children of the Corn movie released by Dimension Films and Miramax Films...

, starring David Carradine

David Carradine

David Carradine was an American actor and martial artist, best known for his role as a warrior monk, Kwai Chang Caine, in the 1970s television series, Kung Fu, which later had a 1990s sequel series, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues...

 and Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes is an American actress.She began acting in the late 1990s, and after a series of minor roles and performances in several smaller films such as Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror and Urban Legends: Final Cut , she broke into the mainstream, appearing in leading roles in Hollywood...

, Blackwater Valley Exorcism and Brutal, starring Jeffrey Combs

Jeffrey Combs

Jeffrey Alan Combs is an American actor known for his horror film roles and his appearances playing a number of characters in the Star Trek franchise.-Early life:...

, Michael Berryman

Michael Berryman

Michael John Berryman is an American actor. He has appeared in several horror movies and other B movies. Berryman is famous for having a distinctive physical appearance as a result of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, a rare genetic condition which prevents him from developing hair, sweat glands...

 and Sarah Thompson

Sarah Thompson

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. In 2006, Wiley formed Wiseacre Films, an independent production company. Producing credits include Blackwater Valley Exorcism, A Dead Calling, Drifter

Drifter

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, Brutal, Deadwater (aka Black Ops), Bear

Bear

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and The Butterfly Room.

Earlier in his career, Wiley worked as a special effects artist and puppeteer on Return of the Jedi, Gremlins

Gremlins

Gremlins is a 1984 American horror comedy film directed by Joe Dante, released by Warner Bros. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature—called a Mogwai—as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters. It was followed by a sequel,...

and Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone

Romancing the Stone is a 1984 American action-adventure romantic comedy. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, it stars Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. The film was followed by a 1985 sequel, The Jewel of the Nile....

.

Music career

Wiley is a mandolin and mandocello

Mandocello

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 player. He composed and produced the instrumental CD, Take A Stand, featuring Jon Sholle

Jon Sholle

Jon Sholle, born April 2, 1949 in New York City, is an American guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, and musician who plays mainly jazz, bluegrass, rock, country, roots music, and folk music.-As musician:...

 (guitar), Joe Craven

Joe Craven

Joe Craven is a Freestyle folk, world and roots music multi-instrumentalist, singer and award winning educator. Joe is the Director of RiverTunes Music Camp and a Co-Director of the Wintergrass Youth Academy...

 (percussion), Jim Whitney

Jim Whitney

James Evans "Grasshopper Jim" Whitney was a former professional baseball player. He was a right-handed pitcher over parts of ten seasons with the Boston Red Caps/Beaneaters, Kansas City Cowboys, Washington Nationals, Indianapolis Hoosiers and Philadelphia Athletics . He was the National League...

 (bass) and Joyce Andersen (violin).
Ethan composed and performed two songs for the soundtrack of Jason X

Jason X

Jason X is a 2002 science fiction horror slasher film directed by James Isaac. It is the tenth in the Friday the 13th film series and stars Kane Hodder as the undead mass murderer Jason Voorhees, the film made $16,951,798 worldwide with a budget of $14 million...

, has contributed mandolin, mandocello and guitar to various soundtracks, and has performed and recorded with singer/songwriter Robert Morgan Fisher and Deep Fried Monks.

Partial filmography

• Return of the Jedi
• Gremlins
  Gremlins
  Gremlins is a 1984 American horror comedy film directed by Joe Dante, released by Warner Bros. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature—called a Mogwai—as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters. It was followed by a sequel,...
  
  
• House
• House II: The Second Story
  House II: The Second Story
  House II: The Second Story is the 1987 sequel to the 1986 film, House. While it is a sequel, this film ignores the storyline and characters from the first film, in favor of a new supernatural comedy. Also, the film's tone was much lighter than the original film and the other following sequels...
  
  
• Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
  Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror
  Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror is a 1998 motion picture and the fifth installment of the Children of the Corn series. It is also the third Children of the Corn movie released by Dimension Films and Miramax Films...
  
  
• Blackwater Valley Exorcism
• Brutal
• Deadwater
• Bear
  Bear (film)
  Bear is a natural horror Z movie directed by John Rebel and stars Patrick Scott Lewis and Katie Lowes. The film was released on June 4th 2010 in the United Kingdom.-Plot:...
  
  

External Links

• Wiseacre Films Official website.
• http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1141781,00.html Review and sound samples of CD "Take a Stand".