Richard Bates Jr.[1] is an American filmmaker.
[2][3][4][5] Films he has directed include Excision (2012), Suburban Gothic (2014), Trash Fire (2016), Tone-Deaf (2019) and King Knight (2021).
[6][7][8][9] Bates has said in a 2022 interview with Comic Book Resources: "A lot of my family is Southern Baptist, which never really appealed to me.
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