Richard Bates Jr.

Richard Bates Jr. is an American filmmaker. Films he has directed include Excision (2012), Suburban Gothic (2014), Trash Fire (2016), Tone-Deaf (2019) and King Knight (2021).

Personal life
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."