Rene Daalder is a Dutch writer and director. He lives in Los Angeles. Before becoming a protege of Russ Meyer, Rene Daalder has worked with Jan de Bont, Frans Bromet, and Rem Koolhaas. He is regarded as a pioneer of Virtual Reality and digital motion picture technologies.

His movies include teenage horror classic Massacre at Central High (1976), Habitat (1997) and Hysteria (1998). He also produced a documentary on Bas Jan Ader entitled „Here is Always Somewhere Else“.