# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alan-b-mcelroy
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:19:25.279Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/alan-b-mcelroy"
name: "Alan B. McElroy"
slug: "alan-b-mcelroy"
description: "Alan B. McElroy is an American writer of film, television, comic books, and video games. He is best known for his collaborations with Todd McFarlane on the Spawn franchise, and for penning horror films such as Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Wrong Turn."
tagline: "American screenwriter"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/uUVDalBQ2kwrlzCcZL9HaN45XsU.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1960"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.17
  momentum:             4.786077732355141
  historical:           7.939998666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568416/"
    handle:    "nm0568416"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D9%86_%D8%A8%DB%8C_%D9%85%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A7%DB%8C%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A6%DB%92"
    title: "ایلن بی میک ایلروئے"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%8A._%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A"
    title: "ألان بي. ماكيلروي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%89._%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%89"
    title: "الان بى. ماكيلروى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_B._McElroy"
    title: "Alan B. McElroy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_B._McElroy"
    title: "Alan B. McElroy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_B._McElroy"
    title: "Alan B. McElroy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_McElroy"
    title: "Alan McElroy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_B._McElroy"
    title: "Alan B. McElroy"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1429245"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/56452"
    title: "Alan B. McElroy"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump