Daniel Pearl, A.S.C. (born 1951 in

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, New York) is an American

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who has worked on many feature films, over 400 music videos and more than 250 commercials. He is known for his cinematography work on various horror films, including ''

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'' (1974) and its 2003 remake, '' Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'' (2007), '' Friday the 13th'' (2009), '' The Boy'' (2016) and '' Mom and Dad'' (2017). After gaining a master's degree at

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, Pearl met

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in a film lab. After receiving some advice from the cinematographer about

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, Hooper later invited him to work on ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'', saying that "it's really important that I have a Texan shoot this film." He won the first

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cinematography award for "

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." He filmed the

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-directed "

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", which he cites as "one of my personal all-time favorite projects ... I think the cinematography is pure, and it tells a story about the song." Michael Bay would later produce the 2003 ''Chainsaw'' remake.

Filmography

References

External links

*
Daniel Pearl
at MVDBase.com

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