Round 2: Tossup 22

A film by a director with this first name features a track written by Nina Simone’s brother Sam Waymon that inspired a 2019 album by clipping. A director with this first name ended a film with shots of a woman smiling at the camera, after a freeze frame on a nude zombie jumping in slow motion over a corpse. The title song of a film by a director with this first name was the first collaboration between Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre. A director with this first name cast Night of the Living Dead star Duane Jones in a film in which an ancient African dagger turns an anthropologist into a vampire. A filmmaker with this first name cast Lauryn (*) Hill in her breakthrough role as a gospel choir singer in Sister Act II and directed a 1992 film starring Laurence Fishburne as an undercover cop. That director with (10[1])this first name played Mac in Predator. For 10 points, give this first name shared by the directors of Ganja and Hess and Deep Cover, who had the surnames Gunn and Duke. ■END■

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