question: Off Season was based on the legend that inspired the film written and directed by whom?
answer: Wes Craven
context: Title: Sin-Jin Smyth
  Passage: Sin-Jin Smyth is an unreleased horror film written and directed by Ethan Dettenmaier, based on an old legend inspired by the Kansas Stull Cemetery.  The story involves the Devil simultaneously appearing in two places, the high plains of India and a Kansas cemetery every Halloween at midnight.
  Title: The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)
  Passage: The Hills Have Eyes is a 1977 American exploitation-horror film written, directed, and edited by Wes Craven and starring Susan Lanier, Michael Berryman and Dee Wallace.  It is about a family that is targeted by a family of savages after being stranded in the Nevada desert.  The film was released in cinemas on 22 July 1977 and has since become a cult classic.  It was followed by "The Hills Have Eyes Part II".
  Title: K-20: Legend of the Mask
  Passage: K-20: Legend of the Mask (K-20 怪人二十面相・伝 , Kē-Tuentī: Kaijin Nijū Mensō Den , literally "Legend of the Twenty-Faced Mysterious Person") at film festivals, "The Fiend with Twenty Faces" on home video in the United States and "The Legend of the Black Mask" in the United Kingdom) is a 2008 Japanese action film written and directed by Shimako Satō and based on a novel by Sō Kitamura and its sequel.  The film released worldwide on December 20, 2008.  Takeshi Kaneshiro and Takako Matsu portray a fictional roles in the film.  Tōru Nakamura and Kanata Hongo also starred in the film, just as Takeshi Kaga, Fumiyo Kohinata, Reiko Takashima, Toru Masuoka and Yuki Imai.
  Title: Off Season (novel)
  Passage: Off Season is a horror novel written by Jack Ketchum and initially published by Ballantine Books in 1980.  It was Ketchum's first novel and was partially based upon the legend of Sawney Bean, which also inspired Wes Craven's 1977 cult classic horror film "The Hills Have Eyes".
  Title: Alagwa (film)
  Passage: Alagwa (English: "Breakaway") is a 2012 Filipino drama horror film written and directed by Ian Loreños.  The film stars Jericho Rosales, a father struggling to search his son after disappearing in the city.  The film is inspired by a popular urban legend about a child's disappearance in Chinatown Manila.  The film uncovers the dark facets of the underground business of human trafficking in the Philippines.
  Title: The Legend of Cool &quot;Disco&quot; Dan
  Passage: The Legend of Cool "Disco" Dan is a 2013 American documentary film written and directed by Joseph Pattisall.  The film was released on April 15, 2013 in conjunction with the release of the book "Pump Me Up: DC Subculture in the 1980s".  The documentary was narrated by Washington, D.C.-native Henry Rollins.  "The Legend of Cool "Disco" Dan" provides a documentation of Washington, D.C. during the 1970s and 1980s from the perspective of Cool "Disco" Dan, and blends commentary by local Washingtonians combined with archival footage, forming a comprehensive portrait of this time period.
  Title: The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow
  Passage: The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow is an American computer/traditionally animated short film based on "The Smurfs" comic book series created by the Belgian comics artist Peyo.  The animated short was written by Todd Berger and directed by Stephan Franck, and it stars the voices of Melissa Sturm, Fred Armisen, Anton Yelchin, Alan Cumming and Hank Azaria.  The film was produced by Sony Pictures Animation with the animation by Sony Pictures Imageworks and Duck Studios.  "The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow" was released on DVD on September 10, 2013.  The film is loosely based on Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
  Title: Ashes of Time
  Passage: Ashes of Time is a 1994 Hong Kong film written and directed by Wong Kar-wai, and inspired by characters from Jin Yong's novel "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
  Title: The New World (2005 film)
  Passage: The New World is a 2005 British-American romantic historical drama film written and directed by Terrence Malick, depicting the founding of the Jamestown, Virginia, settlement and inspired by the historical figures Captain John Smith, Pocahontas of the Powatan Native American tribe, and Englishman, John Rolfe.  It is the fourth feature film written and directed by Malick.
  Title: The Legend of Gator Face
  Passage: The Legend of Gator Face is a 1996 Canadian comedy horror feature film written by David Covell, Alan Mruvka, and Sahara Riley, and directed by Vic Sarin.  The film first aired as a Showtime Original Pictures for Kids on May 1996.  In 1997 it was nominated for a Daytime Emmy.  "The Legend of Gator Face" had a theatrical and television release and is now available on DVD.
citations: Off Season (novel) The Hills Have Eyes (1977 film)