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Death House
''Death House'' is a 2017 American horror film written by Gunnar Hansen, who has a cameo in the film, and directed by Harrison Smith. The film features an ensemble cast of horror icons including Kane Hodder, Barbara Crampton, Bill Moseley, Dee Wallace, Tony Todd and Camille Keaton. Originally written by Hansen, the film started as a concept intended to bring as many well known horror actors together as possible. This is Hansen's final film performance, as it was released two years after his death. Plot FBI agent Toria Boon arrives at Death House, a federal prison and research center where prisoners are confined to virtual environments whose crime simulations allow their behavior to be studied. Upon arrival, Boon is taunted by neo-Nazi criminal Alois Sieg, who she went undercover to capture, but killed a mother and her son to keep her cover. Captain Victor Galan greets Boon before introducing her to Dr. Eileen Fletcher and fellow agent Jae Novak. Galan escorts Boon to a holograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunnar Hansen
Gunnar Milton Hansen (March 4, 1947 – November 7, 2015) was an Icelandic-born American actor and author best known for playing the mentally impaired cannibal Leatherface in ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' (1974). Early life Hansen was born in Reykjavík, Iceland, to Icelander Skúli Hansen, a dentist, and Norwegian Sigrid Hansen. He moved to the United States with his mother and brother when he was five years old. He lived in Maine until age eleven, when his family moved to Austin, Texas, where he attended Austin High School and the University of Texas at Austin. He majored in English and mathematics as an undergraduate and then went to graduate school in Scandinavian Studies and English. Career His first job out of high school was as a computer operator before he began theater work during college. He was also a football player during high school and for a while a bar bouncer. In 1973, just after finishing graduate school, Hansen heard that ''The Texas Chain Saw Massacre'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stelio Savante
Stelio Savante is a South African American actor, filmmaker and producer best known for his roles as a South African journalist and undercover Mossad agent opposite Jim Caviezel and Claudia Karvan in the political thriller ''Infidel'', a Portuguese mayor opposite Matt Dillon in the Hawaiian drama '' Running for Grace'', a rogue policeman in the South African epic drama '' Colors of Heaven'', the role of Hunter S. Kimbrough in Peter Greenaway's Golden Bear nominated ''Eisenstein in Guanajuato'' and the role of Ajax in the popular video game '' Call of Duty: Black Ops 4''. In 2007 he became the first male South African-born Screen Actors Guild award nominee (Best Ensemble in a Comedy) for his recurring role on ''Ugly Betty'' followed by roles in the studio films ''My Super Ex-Girlfriend'' and '' Starship Troopers 3: Marauder''. Early life A Capetonian of Greek, Italian, British, Ashkenazi, and Anatolian descent, his grandfather was a racing driver who placed and won medals at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video On Demand
Video on demand (VOD) is a media distribution system that allows users to access videos without a traditional video playback device and the constraints of a typical static broadcasting schedule. In the 20th century, broadcasting in the form of over-the-air programming was the most common form of media distribution. As Internet and IPTV technologies continued to develop in the 1990s, consumers began to gravitate towards non-traditional modes of content consumption, which culminated in the arrival of VOD on televisions and personal computers. Unlike broadcast television, VOD systems initially required each user to have an Internet connection with considerable bandwidth to access each system's content. In 2000, the Fraunhofer Institute IIS developed the JPEG2000 codec, which enabled the distribution of movies via Digital Cinema Packages. This technology has since expanded its services from feature-film productions to include broadcast television programmes and has led to lower bandw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Englund
Robert Barton Englund (born June 6, 1947) is an American actor and director. He is best known for playing the supernatural serial killer Freddy Krueger in the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise), Nightmare on Elm Street'' film series. Classically trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Englund began his career as a stage actor in regional theatre, and made his film debut in ''Buster and Billie'' in 1974. After supporting roles in films in the 1970s such as ''Stay Hungry'', ''A Star Is Born (1976 film), A Star Is Born'', and ''Big Wednesday'', Englund had his breakthrough as the resistance fighter Willie in the miniseries ''V (1983 miniseries), V'' in 1983. Following his performance in the original ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' in 1984, he became closely associated with the Horror film, horror film genre, and is widely-regarded as one of its iconic actors. Early life Englund was born on June 6, 1947, in Glendale, California, the son of Janis (married and maiden names, n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Rochon
Debbie Ann Rochon (born November 3, 1968) is a Canadian actress and former stage performer, best known for her work in independent horror films and counterculture films. Early life When Rochon was ten years old, her parents were deemed unfit to raise her, and she was remanded to foster care. Shuttled from one foster home to the next, Rochon ran away to Vancouver. When she was 14 and homeless, she was violently robbed by a homeless man, who assaulted her with a knife and slashed her upper right arm, leaving her with a large vertical scar. Career In 1980, when she was 14, Rochon was cast as a rock-concert extra in ''Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains'' after being alerted to an open-casting call by another homeless youth. She worked for three months and earned $300 cash a week. That experience made her fall in love with filmmaking and acting. By age 17, she had saved enough money to move to New York City. Rochon worked with off-off-Broadway theater companies, perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brinke Stevens
Brinke Stevens (born Charlene Elizabeth Brinkman, September 20, 1954) is an American actress, model, and writer. A native of San Diego, Stevens initially pursued a career as a marine biologist prior to becoming an actress, earning an undergraduate degree in biology from San Diego State University before studying marine biology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Unable to find employment in the field of biology, Stevens began modeling in Los Angeles in 1980, and she worked as a film extra. Her first major film role was in the slasher film ''The Slumber Party Massacre'' (1982). She went on to appear in a number of horror films, including ''Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama'' (1988), ''Nightmare Sisters'' (1988), ''Grandmother's House'' (1988), and '' Mommy'' (1995). In addition to acting, Stevens has co-written several films, including the comedy horror feature '' Teenage Exorcist'' (1991). Biography Early life and education Stevens was born Charlene Elizabet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Blair
Gregory Blair is an American actor, director, and playwright. Blair has portrayed fall guys, villains and characters in between. He received a Geoffrey Award for Best Character Actor for his role in ''Sylvia'', a Stonewall Award for his novel ''Spewing Pulp'', and an EOTM Award for "Best Director of an Indie Horror Film" for Deadly Revisions. Blair studied in and around Southern California, including at UCLA. Career Blair performed in the plays ''Sylvia'', ''Working'', and ''Six Degrees of Separation'', in the films ''On The Rocks'', ''Ooga Booga'', and ''Garden Party Massacre'', and in ''Escape The Night'', ''Love That Girl!'', ''Alternate History'' on TV. Blair wrote the plays ''Cold Lang Syne'', ''The Last Banana'' and ''Nicholas Nickleby''. He published the Stonewall Award-winning book ''Spewing Pulp''). Blair has written over a dozen screenplays and a first place in the Horror Screenplay Contesthttp://www.screenplaycontests.com/horror/winners.html and "Best Screenplay" i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erik Audé
Erik Anthony Audé (born April 5, 1980) is an American actor, stuntman, restaurateur, and professional poker player who was arrested and imprisoned in Pakistan for alleged drug trafficking. Audé maintains that he was duped into carrying opium and believed he was importing leather goods. Audé's experiences were adapted into a 2013 episode of the National Geographic television series ''Locked Up Abroad'', and also into the 2018 documentary film ''3 Years in Pakistan: The Erik Audé Story''. He appears as himself in both works. History Audé was born in Los Angeles, California. He attended Bethel Christian School in Lancaster, California, and played American football there. In 2002, Audé was persuaded to carry leather samples from Islamabad, Pakistan, to the United States by Razmik Minasian (who used the alias Rai Gharizian), an Armenian client at the gymnasium where Audé was employed. Minasian concealed from Audé the fact that the case containing leather skirts and jacke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Stone
Gabrielle Stone is an American author, actress, dancer and director known for movies and television series such as ''Speak No Evil'' and ''Cut''. Stone has worked with actors Billy Zane, Mischa Barton and her mother Dee Wallace in ''Zombie Killers: Elephant's Graveyard''. Biography Stone was born in Los Angeles, the only child of actor Christopher Stone and actress Dee Wallace Deanna Wallace (née Bowers; born December 14, 1948), also known as Dee Wallace Stone, is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Mary Taylor, the mother in the 1982 blockbuster film '' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial''. She i .... While growing up in Los Angeles, California, Gabrielle Stone studied dance. Stone studied at the Ciara Dance studio in Woodland Hills, California where she is an alumna with more than 18 years of experience. Filmography Film Television References * * * * External links *Official website* * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Gabrielle Living people Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Speight Jr
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horror Film
Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Cinematic techniques used in horror films have been shown to provoke psychological reactions in an audience. Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the release of ''Dracula'' (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, supernatural horror and psychological horror. The genre has been produ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Numbers (website)
The Numbers is a film industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The company also conducts research services and forecasts incomes of film projects. History The site was launched in 1997 by Bruce Nash. On March 21, 2020, the Numbers released a statement that because of movie theater closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, "We don’t expect much box office reporting in the short term" and did not report the usual daily box office estimates due to lack of box office data from film studios. See also * Box Office Mojo Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way. The site was founded in 1998 by Brandon Gray, and was bought in 2008 by IMDb IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is ... * Lumiere References External links * ''The Numbers'' Bankability Index 1997 establishments in California Companies based in Beverly Hills, California Film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
