Tom DeSimone, who emerged from the world of 1970s gay adult movies to direct such mainstream cult films as the Linda Blair-starring Hell Night and the women-in-prison flicks The Concrete Jungle and Reform School Girls , has died. He was 87.

DeSimone died Oct. 17 in a senior care facility in Palm Springs, his younger brother, actor, comedian and drummer Bob DeSimone ( Friday the 13th: A New Beginning ), told The Hollywood Reporter . He had terminal cancer and opted to end his life with medical assistance.

Tom DeSimone also is known for directing the notorious comedy Chatterbox (1977), which starred Candice Rialson as a hairdresser whose vagina talks and has a mind of its (her?) own and featured turns from Rip Taylor and Professor Irwin Corey .

The slasher-haunted house film Hell Night (1981), also starring Vincent Van Patten, marked Blair’s return to the horror genre following 1977’s Exorcist II: The Heretic .…