Jeremiah Kipp, the filmmaker who turned his own short into the Shudder feature Slapface and went on to adapt The Mortuary Assistant for the screen, has died. The Long Island International Film Expo announced the news in a statement posted to Facebook, saying Kipp “left this plane of existence” on Tuesday, October 13, at approximately 3 AM.

The Expo said the news reached it through Lindsay Katt, Kipp’s life partner of seven years. No cause of death has been released.

Kipp wrote and directed Slapface from his 2017 short of the...