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Daniel Pearl (cinematographer)
Daniel Pearl, A.S.C. (born 1951 in The Bronx, New York) is an American cinematographer who has worked on many feature films, over 400 music videos and more than 250 commercials. He is known for his cinematography work on various horror films, including ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' (1974) and its 2003 remake, '' Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem'' (2007), '' Friday the 13th'' (2009), '' The Boy'' (2016) and '' Mom and Dad'' (2017). After gaining a master's degree at University of Texas at Austin, Pearl met Tobe Hooper in a film lab. After receiving some advice from the cinematographer about filters, Hooper later invited him to work on ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'', saying that "it's really important that I have a Texan shoot this film." He won the first MTV cinematography award for "Every Breath You Take." He filmed the Michael Bay-directed "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" is a song written by Jim Steinman, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fairy Tales (film)
''Fairy Tales'', released in the UK as ''Adult Fairy Tales'', is a 1978 sex comedy directed by Harry Hurwitz, the plot of which revolves around the stereotypical fairy tale. Synopsis On his twenty-first birthday, a prince is approached by his father (the king) and other courtiers. They present him a girl as birthday gift. The king asks him to enjoy sexual life and to produce the next heir. However, the prince experiences erectile dysfunction and is unable to perform sexually. He discovers that his sexual attraction is focused towards a long forgotten princess whose picture is hanging on the wall. He goes in search of this princess, and encounters many people along the way. Ultimately, he finds the princess and is able to perform sexually with her. Cast * Don Sparks as Prince * Sy Richardson as Sirus * Irwin Corey as Dr. Eyes (as Prof. Irwin Corey) * Robert Harris as Dr. Ears * Simmy Bow as Dr. Mustachio * Robert Staats as Doorman / Tommy Tucker * Martha Reeves as Aunt La Vo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Island Of The Alive
''It's Alive III: Island of the Alive'' is a 1987 American science fiction horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen. It is the sequel to the 1978 film ''It Lives Again''. The film stars Michael Moriarty, Karen Black, Laurene Landon, James Dixon, Gerrit Graham, Macdonald Carey and Neal Israel. The film was released by Warner Bros. in May 1987. Plot Several years after the first two films' events, a woman goes into labor in a cab on a rainy night. Panicked, the cab driver seeks out a police officer to assist in the birth before searching for a public phone to call an ambulance. While he's away, the woman gives birth to a mutant baby. Recognizing it as a mutant child like those from the prior films, the officer tries to shoot and kill the infant, who reacts by killing the officer and mother. The following day, the mutant baby's corpse is found inside a Catholic church, where it dragged itself to die. In a courtroom, Stephen Jarvis is pleading for the court to spare his mutant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zapped!
''Zapped!'' is a 1982 American teen sex comedy film directed by Robert J. Rosenthal and co-written with Bruce Rubin. The film stars Scott Baio as a high school student who acquires telekinetic powers. Plot At Ralph Waldo Emerson High School, bookish student Barney Springboro (Scott Baio) performs various scientific experiments on laboratory mice until his friend, yearbook photographer Peyton Nichols (Willie Aames), retrieves him for a class assembly. Peyton questions Barney's lack of interest in finding a girlfriend as the students rally in preparation for an upcoming baseball game against a rival high school. Afterward, Peyton seduces one of the school administrators, Corrine Updike, and Barney returns to his experiments. At the insistence of the pesky class president, Bernadette (Felice Schachter), Peyton promises to take photographs of Barney posing with the genetically modified orchids he has been growing for the school principal, Walter Coolidge. Barney drops the beaker co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Junkman
''The Junkman'' Is a 1982 independent film which spent two years in production. To make the film, H. B. Halicki used his own personal collection of over 200 cars, toys, and guns—including Eleanor, the star of his 1974 cult classic '' Gone in 60 Seconds''. ''The Junkman'' is the second installment of Halicki's film trilogy. It presents ''Gone in 60 Seconds'' and ''Deadline Auto Theft'' as films within a film. The opening car chase sequence, which involves a 1974 Bricklin SV-1, is part of ''Deadline Auto Theft''s storyline. ''The Junkman'' holds the Guinness World Record for wrecking over 150 cars, trucks, motorcycles and planes in one movie. Plot Harlan B. Hollis struggles to stay alive when a jealous public relations manager hires a team of assassins to kill him. The manager, also Hollis' brother-in-law, resents Hollis for making the movie '' Gone in 60 Seconds'', which is premiering at the Cinerama Dome. The film starts with the head hitman Frank Spyros answering a pay phon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Cohen
Lawrence George Cohen (July 15, 1936 – March 23, 2019) was an American screenwriter, producer, and director of film and television, best known as an author of horror and science fiction films — often containing police procedural and satirical elements — during the 1970s and 1980s, such as '' It's Alive'' (1974), ''God Told Me To'' (1976), ''It Lives Again'' (1978), ''The Stuff'' (1985) and '' A Return to Salem's Lot'' (1987). He originally emerged as the writer of blaxploitation films such as ''Bone'' (1972), '' Black Caesar'', and ''Hell Up in Harlem'' (both 1973). Later on he concentrated mainly on screenwriting, including ''Phone Booth'' (2002), ''Cellular'' (2004) and '' Captivity'' (2007). Early in his career, Cohen was a prolific television writer, creating series such as '' Branded'', ''Blue Light'', ''Coronet Blue'', and ''The Invaders''. In 2006, he returned to the directing chair for Mick Garris's anthology series ''Masters of Horror'', directing the episo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Full Moon High
''Full Moon High'' is a 1981 American comedy horror film written and directed by Larry Cohen. Plot The film is about a teenager who goes on a trip to Transylvania with his father and gets bitten by a werewolf. Made ageless, he attempts to put his life back together a couple of decades later by enrolling in high school. He initially tries to keep his secret from the school and the three women who show interest in him — a sexually active high school student, his own former girlfriend (now a married mother of one), and one of his teachers. He ignores sexual advances because it is his "time of the month." He later encourages the female high school student to film his transformation. She, and the students who later watch the film, mistake the footage at first for a stag film, but after people watch the whole film he is arrested for the crimes he committed while in wolf form. He, as the wolf, escapes prison in time to participate in his high school's homecoming football game. There he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greydon Clark
Greydon Clark (born February 7, 1943) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. His career spans several decades and genres, although the majority of his work has been low-budget productions in the action/horror genres. His most recent work was writing and directing the 1998 science fiction film '' Stargames''. Between 1969 and 1989, Clark acted in a series of action/horror films, including ''Satan's Sadists'', ''The Mighty Gorga'', ''Hell's Bloody Devils'', '' Dracula vs. Frankenstein'', and ''Psychic Killer''. Beginning in 1973, he wrote and directed a series of films, including '' The Bad Bunch'' (in which he also starred), ''Black Shampoo'', ''Satan's Cheerleaders'', ''Hi-Riders'', ''Angels Revenge'', '' Uninvited'', ''Dance Macabre'', ''Skinheads A skinhead is a member of a subculture which originated among working class youths in London, England, in the 1960s and soon spread to other parts of the United Kingdom, with a second working class skinh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Return (1980 Film)
''The Return'' is a 1980 American science-fiction film directed by Greydon Clark and starring Jan-Michael Vincent, Cybill Shepherd, Martin Landau and Raymond Burr. It met with little commercial success and was released directly to television and video. Plot While stopping with her father at a gas station late one night in a small New Mexico town called Little Creek, a young girl wanders the empty main street of the town. She meets a local boy, and both are soon mesmerized by a column of light from above. The light disappears and the girl runs back to her father's car, and they soon leave. Twenty-five years later, the town's deputy marshal Wayne is investigating a strange case of cattle mutilations with few leads to follow. His efforts are soon hampered by Jennifer, a scientist from California, who is overseeing a geology project in the area. As the two disagree over the mutilations and their possible causes, they find themselves attracted to each another in a seemingly familiar way ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Baer Jr
Maximilian Adelbert Baer Jr. (born December 4, 1937) is an American actor, producer, comedian, and director widely known for his role as Jethro Bodine, the dim-witted relative of Jed Clampett (played by Buddy Ebsen) on ''The Beverly Hillbillies''. Early life Baer was born Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. in Oakland, California, on December 4, 1937, the son of boxing champion Max Baer and his wife Mary Ellen Sullivan. His paternal grandfather was of German Jewish descent, and his mother and paternal grandmother were both of Scots-Irish descent. His brother and sister are James Manny Baer (1941–2009) and Maude Baer (b. 1943). His uncle was boxer and actor Buddy Baer. He attended Christian Brothers High School in Sacramento, where he earned letters in four sports and twice won the junior title at the Sacramento Open golf tournament. (Playing with Charlie Sifford, he later won the pro–am tournament at the 1968 Andy Williams - San Diego Open.) Baer earned a bachelor's degr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albert Band
Albert Band (May 7, 1924 – June 14, 2002) was a French-American film director and film producer. He was the son of artist Max Band, father of filmmaker Charles Band and of film composer Richard Band and the grandfather of Alex Band, Taryn Band and Rachael Band. Life and career Band was born in Paris, France, the son of Bertha (Finkelstein) and Max Band, an artist. His mother was born in Russia and his father was from Kudirkos Naumiestis, Lithuania. His family is Jewish. He escaped from Paris to the United States with his family prior to the occupation of France during World War II. He graduated from Hollywood High School. Interested in film, he became an apprentice at Warner Bros. where he developed contacts eventually becoming an assistant director on John Huston's ''The Asphalt Jungle'', then adapting the story ''The Red Badge of Courage'' for Huston's film of the same name. He made his debut as a producer and director in '' The Young Guns'' (1956), combining the two t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
She Came To The Valley
''She Came to the Valley'' is a western-genre film, shot in 1977 and released in 1979. Directed by Albert Band, it stars Ronee Blakley, Scott Glenn, Freddy Fender, and Dean Stockwell. It is based on a novel by Cleo Dawson. Background The film is a western set in 1915. It is based on one of Cleo Dawson's novels that was written in 1943. The title of the novel was, ''She Came to the Valley: A Novel of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Mission Texas''. It is said to be based on her mothers experiences. The film was shot in South Texas's Rio Grande Valley, but a small portion was shot in Oklahoma. In its first run it broke weekend attendance records at Rio Grande theatres. Later years About three decades later in July 2008, there was a reunion with some of the cast having a party at the Mission Historical Museum. Story A poor family that leaves Oklahoma for Texas are persuaded by a drifter to move to the valley. It is discovered that the drifter is a supporter of the revolutionary lead ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
