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My Teacher Ate My Homework
''Shadow Zone: My Teacher Ate My Homework'' is a 1997 comedy horror film by Stephen Williams (director), Stephen Williams, the second film based on a Shadow Zone (novels), Shadow Zone book. Plot A Grim Reaper appears in a spooky classroom, then tells a tale about a student named Jesse Hackett, who hates his teacher, Mrs. Fink, and is soon doomed to be trapped in the Shadow Zone. After all, to enter the Shadow Zone, one merely needs a touch of evil. Jesse Hackett finds a doll at a store resembling his teacher. Things start to take a turn for the worse when the doll comes to life. Jesse and his friends destroy the evil doll. Then Jesse Hackett and Mrs. Fink reconcile. Jesse never becomes an eternal guest at the Shadow Zone. The Grim Reaper tells the audience that he hopes to see them doomed, and that he will have a room waiting for them in the Shadow Zone. Then with a chilling laugh, he walks down the school's hall to the entrance and disappears. Cast *Shelley Duvall *Gregory Smith ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Horror
Comedy horror, also known as horror comedy, is a literary genre, literary, television genre, television, and film genre that combines elements of comedy and horror fiction. Comedy horror has been described as able to be categorized under three types: "black comedy, parody and spoof." It often crosses over with the black comedy genre. Comedy horror can also parody or subtly spoof horror clichés as its main source of humour or use those elements to take a story in a different direction, for example in ''The Cabin in the Woods'', ''Tucker & Dale vs. Evil'', ''Shaun of the Dead'' or the ''Evil Dead'' franchise. Author Bruce G. Hallenbeck cites the short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving as "the first great comedy horror story". The story made readers "laugh one moment and scream the next" and its premise was based on mischief typically found during the holiday Halloween. In literature Horror and comedy have been associated with each other since the early days ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Williams (director)
Stephen Williams is a Canadian film director, film and television director. Williams has directed several modern-day television programs including work as a regular director on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC drama series ''Lost (TV series), Lost'', where he was also a television producer, co-executive producer. Life and career In 1995, Williams wrote and directed the film ''Soul Survivor (film), Soul Survivor'', which starred his brother Peter Williams (actor), Peter in the main role. In 2004, he began directing on the ABC drama series ''Lost (TV series), Lost'', and later also rose to the position of co-executive producer. Williams is married to Jocelyn Snowdon and the couple has a daughter together, in addition to Stephen's twin sons, Gabriel and Justis. The couple now resides in the Los Angeles area. His brother is actor Peter Williams (actor), Peter Williams, best known for playing the Goa'uld Apophis on ''Stargate SG-1''. Filmography Producer Director Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow Zone (novels)
''Shadow Zone'' is a series of 13 children's horror fiction books written in the 1990s by several authors using the pen name J. R. Black. Each book is a different story, with new characters. A child or a few children meet a monster who asks for help and usually threatens them or their family. Aggressive at the beginning, they may finally be nice or touching. The books use black humor. Two of the books, '' The Undead Express'' and ''My Teacher Ate My Homework'', have been made into films. List of titles in the Shadow Zone series # ''The Ghost of Chicken Liver Hill'': Tony is dragged into an eerie mystery when the ghost of a teenager named Buddy Parker begins to haunt him. # ''Guess Who's Dating a Werewolf?'' # ''The Witches Next Door'': Jennifer becomes the target of two witches who want to make her one of them. # ''Revenge of the Computer Phantoms'': It is digital disaster when Mike's computer game comes to life. # ''The Undead Express'': Compulsive liar Zach accidentally stumbl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Post-Star
''The Post-Star'' is a daily newspaper in Glens Falls, New York. Its circulation is 9,780. It serves the counties of Warren, Washington and Saratoga in New York State including the cities of Glens Falls and Saratoga Springs. It is the only daily newspaper published in Warren County. It competes with ''The Saratogian'' of Saratoga Springs and the '' Times Union'' of Albany for the Saratoga County market. History The current ''Post-Star'' newspaper traces its roots to 1904 with the founding of a paper called ''The Morning Post''. In 1909 the owners of ''The Morning Post'' acquired a competing newspaper called ''The Morning Star'' and merged the two papers into ''The Post-Star''. The newspaper was sold in 1971 by longtime publisher and major shareholder Arthur Irving Sr. to Howard Publications.(30 December 1970)Glen Falls Newspapers Have Been Purchased By Howard Publications, Oceanside, Calif; Carl M. Davidson Has Been Named Publisher ''The Post-Star'', p.1 (paywall) ''The Post-S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grim Reaper
Death is frequently imagined as a personified force. In some mythologies, a character known as the Grim Reaper (usually depicted as a berobed skeleton wielding a scythe) causes the victim's death by coming to collect that person's soul. Other beliefs hold that the Spectre of Death is only a psychopomp, serving to sever the last ties between the soul and the body, and to guide the deceased to the afterlife, without having any control over when or how the victim dies. Death is most often personified in male form, although in certain cultures Death is perceived as female (for instance, Marzanna in Slavic mythology, or Santa Muerte in Mexico). By region Americas Latin America As is the case in many Romance languages (including French, Portuguese, Italian, and Romanian), the Spanish word for death, ''muerte,'' is a feminine noun. As such, it is common in Spanish-speaking cultures to personify death as a female figure. In Aztec mythology, Mictecacihuatl is the "Queen of Mictla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
