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1993 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards
The 1993 ''Fangoria'' Chainsaw Awards ceremony, presented by ''Fangoria'' magazine and Creation Entertainment, honored the best list of horror films of 1992, horror films of 1992 and took place on May 1, 1993, at the Sheraton Grand Los Angeles (711 S Hope St; formerly Hyatt Regency) in Los Angeles, California. Awards Fangoria Hall of Fame Award *Anthony Hopkins *Linnea Quigley External links1993 Fangoria Chainsaw Award Winners {{Fangoria Chainsaw Awards Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 1993 film awards, Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 1993 in California, Fangoria Chainsaw Awards 1993 in Los Angeles 1993 in American cinema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hilton Hotel
Hilton Hotels & Resorts (formerly known as Hilton Hotels) is a global brand of full-service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of American multinational hospitality company Hilton. The original company was founded by Conrad Hilton. As of December 30, 2019, 584 Hilton Hotels & Resorts properties with 216,379 rooms in 94 countries and territories are located across six continents. This includes 61 properties that are owned or leased with 219,264 rooms, 272 that are managed with 119,612 rooms, and 251 that are franchised with 77,451 rooms. In 2020, ''Fortune'' magazine ranked Hilton Hotels & Resorts at number one on their ''Fortune'' List of the Top 100 Companies to Work For in 2020 based on an employee survey of satisfaction. Overview Hilton Hotels & Resorts is Hilton's flagship brand and one of the largest hotel brands in the world. The brand is targeted at both business and leisure travelers with locations in major city centers, near airports, convention cente ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan O'Bannon
Daniel Thomas O'Bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American film screenwriter, film director, director and visual effects supervisor, usually in the science fiction and Horror fiction, horror genres. O'Bannon wrote the screenplay for ''Alien (film), Alien'', adapted from a story he wrote with Ronald Shusett. He also wrote and directed the cult horror comedy ''The Return of the Living Dead''. He contributed computer animation to ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars'' and worked on cult classics such as ''Dark Star (film), Dark Star'', ''Heavy Metal (film), Heavy Metal'', and ''Total Recall (1990 film), Total Recall''. Early life O'Bannon was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Bertha (Married and maiden names, née Lowenthal) and Thomas Sidney O'Bannon, a carpenter. During his childhood he was a science fiction and horror enthusiast. He attended the art school of Washington University in St. Louis, where he did stand-up comedy routines, did make-up for campus t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Todd
Tony Todd (born December 4, 1954) is an American actor who made his debut as Sgt. Warren in the film ''Platoon'' (1986), and portrayed Kurn in the television series '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' (1990–1991) and '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1996). He achieved stardom for his roles as Ben in the 1990 remake of ''Night of the Living Dead'', as the titular character in the four films of the '' Candyman'' film series (1992–2021) and William Bludworth in the ''Final Destination'' franchise (2000–2011). He also starred as Dan in ''The Man from Earth'' (2007) and voiced The Fallen in'' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' (2009), Darkseid in the DC Animated Movie Universe, Zoom in ''The Flash'' and Venom in the upcoming ''Spider-Man 2'' (2023) game. Early life and education Todd was born in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, attending local schools including Hartford Public High School. He is also an alumnus of the Artists Collective, Inc. Todd att ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Loggia
Salvatore "Robert" Loggia ( , ; January 3, 1930 – December 4, 2015) was an American actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for '' Jagged Edge'' (1985) and won the Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor for ''Big'' (1988). In a career spanning over sixty years, Loggia performed in many films, including ''The Greatest Story Ever Told'' (1965), three ''Pink Panther'' films, '' An Officer and a Gentleman'' (1982), '' Scarface'' (1982), ''Prizzi's Honor'' (1985), ''Oliver & Company'' (1988), '' Innocent Blood'' (1992), '' Independence Day'' (1996), '' Lost Highway'' (1997), ''Return to Me'' (2000), and ''Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie'' (2012). He also appeared on television series including the Walt Disney limited series, ''The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca'' (starring role-1958), ''Mancuso, FBI'' (in which he starred-1989–1990), ''Malcolm in the Middle'' (2001), ''The Sopranos'' (2004), ''Men of a Certain Age'' (2011), and was also the sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Lawnmower Man (film)
''The Lawnmower Man'' is a 1992 science fiction horror film directed by Brett Leonard, written by Leonard and Gimel Everett, and starring Jeff Fahey as Jobe Smith, an intellectually disabled gardener, and Pierce Brosnan as Dr. Lawrence "Larry" Angelo, a scientist who decides to experiment on him in an effort to give him greater intelligence. The experiments give Jobe superhuman abilities, but also increase his aggression, turning him into a man obsessed with evolving into a digital being. This film is adapted from the merging of a 1975 short story by Stephen King with an original screenplay entitled "CyberGod." While King's story focused on the titular character, a demon-possessed devil-worshipper who strips naked and eats grass like a goat, who can control his lawnmower with mystical powers, the film has the same character controlling the lawnmower by means of the untapped potential of the human brain, which has been stimulated by advanced, but unethical scientific experiementa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Fahey
Jeffrey David Fahey (, born November 29, 1952) is an American film and television actor. He has portrayed Captain Frank Lapidus on the ABC series ''Lost'' and the title role of Deputy Marshal Winston MacBride on ''The Marshal''. Early life and education Fahey was born in Olean, New York, the sixth of 13 siblings in an Irish American family. His mother, Jane, was a homemaker, and his father, Frank Fahey, worked at a clothing store. Fahey was raised in Buffalo, New York, from the age of ten and attended Father Baker's high school there. Fahey left home at the age of 17, subsequently hitchhiking to Alaska. He later backpacked through Europe, and worked on an Israeli kibbutz. Career Fahey started performing when he won a full scholarship to dance at the Joffrey Ballet School at the age of 25. He performed in theaters across the United States and on Broadway. He landed his first major role on television playing Gary Corelli on the soap opera, ''One Life to Live''. In 1985, he recei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doug Bradley
Douglas William Bradley (born 7 September 1954) is an English actor and author, best known for his role as the lead Cenobite "Pinhead" in the ''Hellraiser'' film series and for narration on various Cradle of Filth albums. He is also starring in the upcoming animated film ''Dagon: Troll World Chronicles'' as the forest monster Goeyre Heddagh. Early life Bradley was born in Liverpool and attended Quarry Bank High School. Career Bradley is best known for playing the role of Pinhead, the lead Cenobite, in the first eight ''Hellraiser'' films, as well as Captain Elliot Spencer in two of the films, '' Hellbound: Hellraiser II'' (1988) and '' Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth'' (1992). He is one of only six actors to play the same horror character at least six consecutive times, the others being Christopher Lee (who portrayed Count Dracula), Robert Englund (who portrayed Freddy Krueger), Warwick Davis (who portrayed the Leprechaun), Brad Dourif (who portrayed Chucky) and Tobin Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Oldman
Gary Leonard Oldman (born 21 March 1958) is an English actor and filmmaker. Known for his versatility and intense acting style, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and three British Academy Film Awards. His films have grossed over $11 billion worldwide, making him one of the highest-grossing actors of all time. Oldman began acting in theatre in 1979 and made his film debut in '' Remembrance'' (1982). He continued to follow a stage career in London's Royal Court and was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, with credits including ''Cabaret'', ''Romeo and Juliet'', ''Entertaining Mr Sloane'', '' Saved'', '' The Country Wife'' and ''Hamlet''. He rose to prominence in British film with his portrayals of Sid Vicious in ''Sid and Nancy'' (1986), Joe Orton in ''Prick Up Your Ears'' (1987) and Rosencrantz in ''Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead'' (1990), while also attracting attention as the leader of a gang of football hoolig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Duguay (director)
Christian Duguay (born March 30, 1956) is a Canadian film director. Career Duguay graduated from the Film Production program of Concordia University, in 1979. That year, his film ''Piece Interrompue Pour Piano Sauvage'', together with Harold Trépanier, took the Best Cinematography award at the 11th Canadian Student Film Festival. He began his professional career as a cameraman and jack-of-all-trades, working in documentaries, commercials and music videos. He became known as an expert with the Steadicam and shot many movies of the week in the United States. He is best known for directing the action films '' Screamers'' (1995) starring Peter Weller and Roy Dupuis and ''The Art of War'' (2000) starring Wesley Snipes and Michael Biehn. He directed the 1994 CBS/CBC drama, ''Million Dollar Babies'', starring Beau Bridges based on the Dionne Quintuplets. In May 2003, he directed the Emmy nominated miniseries '' Hitler: The Rise of Evil'', which aired on the CBC, and in 2009 a televisi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scanners III
''Scanners III: The Takeover'' (also known as ''Scanner Force'' in UK) is a 1992 Canadian science fiction horror film, the second sequel to the film ''Scanners''. It was directed by Christian Duguay. The film received mixed reviews, and is the least successful ''Scanners'' film. This sequel has a different set of characters from either of the preceding films in the series. In addition to having the same director and screenwriter, this film also features a few actors from '' Scanners II: The New Order''. For instance, Jason Cavalier from ''Scanners II: The New Order'' (with the exploding tumor) plays a punk leader in ''Scanners III: The Takeover''. Plot Alex Monet, a Scanner, accidentally kills his best friend whilst demonstrating his powers at a Christmas party. Devastated, he goes to a monastery in Thailand in order to learn how to control his powers. Two years later, Alex's adoptive father, Elton, is developing an experimental drug patch named EPH-3 (a variant of Ephemer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Refrigerator (film)
''The Refrigerator'' is a 1991 supernatural comedy horror film starring Julia McNeal, Dave Simonds and Angel Caban. It was written and directed by Nicholas Jacobs. The film tells the story about a couple that move into an apartment in New York with a refrigerator that contains the portal to Hell. Background The first draft of the script was written in 1987 and the film took four years altogether to make. ''The Refrigerator'' was filmed within New York in America, by production companies Connexion Film Productions and Avenue D Films. As an independent production with a limited budget, the filmmakers decided not to get the film rated by the MPAA and as a result it was released straight to video and promptly disappeared. It was first seen in Germany at the June 1991 Munich Film Festival. On 25 September 1992, it premiered in New York and during 1993 it had a theatrical release across Germany via Impuls-Film Hans-Joachim Flebbe Co. The film was released on VHS in Germany via Warne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ate De Jong
Ate de Jong (born 1953 in Aardenburg, Zeeland, Netherlands) is a Dutch film director. He is best known as the producer of ''The Discovery of Heaven'' (2001), nominated for a Golden Calf award, and '' Het Bombardement'' (2012). Filmography Director * ''Alle dagen feest'' (1976) ('' Every Day a Party'') * ''Blindgangers'' (1977) (''Blind Spot'') * ''Dag Dokter'' (1978) (''Inheritance'') * ''Bekende gezichten, gemengde gevoelens'' (1980) ('' Familiar Faces, Mixed Feelings'') * ''Een vlucht regenwulpen'' (1981) ('' A Flight of Rainbirds'') * ''Brandende liefde'' (1983) (''Burning Love'') * ''In de schaduw van de overwinning'' (1986) ('' Shadow of Victory'') * ''Miami Vice'' (1 episode, 1987) - "Missing Hours" * ''Drop Dead Fred'' (1991) * ''Highway to Hell'' (1992) * ''Tödliche Lüge'' (1993) (TV) (alternative title: ''Die Wahrheit hinter den Kulissen'') (Germany) * ''All Men Are Mortal'' (1995) * ''Eine kleine Nachtmerrie'' (1996) TV series * ''Wenn ich nicht mehr lebe'' (1996) (T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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