Albert Morloch

Albert Hannibal Morloch (d. 15 August 1987) was a director famed as much for his mastery of suspense as he was for his psychotic tendencies when directing and also when not directing. He was personally responsible for the nervous breakdowns of over two hundred individuals in the film industry, and potentially responsible for a similar number of unsolved murders. Although he always professed to be human when pressured on the subject, the Hollywood authorities posthumously reclassified him as a cryptid in 1987 due to the results of several unsuccessful autopsies.

Backstory

Not much is known about Morloch's history before his arrival in Hollywood around 1938, except for what he himself chose to reveal through various interviews, biographies, and ominous threats. According to Morloch, he was born "elsewhere" before coming to Hollywood due to "unpleasantness" in his formative years. He arrived "by means" with no possessions except for the clothes on his back and a steamer trunk that contained film reels of his pre-Hollywood directorial work, although eyewitnesses have claimed that the trunk also held a set of surgical implements and a number of jars with unknown contents.