Maurice Devereaux (pronounced Morris Devro) was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and showed an interest in movies at an early age.
Devereaux's self-description was featured on the Slashers DVD:"Mine is a typical film-geek heritage; tons of Spielberg, Lucas and comic book superheroes as a kid.
In my teens, Carpenter, Kubrick, Raimi, Coppola, Romero and Argento were a huge influence.
In my twenties Lynch, Von Trier, the Coens, Jodorowsky, Rohmer, Allen and Scorsese had become a big part of my cinephile diet.
"[citation needed] After his self-financed first effort, Blood Symbol (1994), his second feature, Lady of the Lake (1998) and his follow-up, Slashers (2001),[3] were distributed in the United States under the "Fangoria presents" label, and in the U.K., Canada, France, and Germany.