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Specters (film)
''Specters'' ( it, Spettri) is a 1987 Italian horror film directed by Marcello Avallone and starring Donald Pleasence. Plot During excavations for the Rome Metro, the collapse of a wall brings to light an underground necropolis. Four archaeologists, Lasky, Barbara, Marcus and Andrea, in search of the unidentified Tomb of Domitian, become victims of evil forces in the tomb. Cast Production ''Specters'' was the fourth feature film for director Marcello Avallone. His third film ''Cugine mie'' had been released a decade prior. Avallone decided to work in horror films when in the United States in 1980. Avallone began work on the project through the help of producer Maurizio Tedesco, the brother of actress Paola Tedesco, and began to develop a horror film aimed at foreign markets. Avallone worked on the script with Andrea Purgatori, a reporter for '' Corriere della Sera'' newspaper. Despite his name being featured in the credits, Dardano Sacchetti's work on the film was small, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dardano Sacchetti
Dardano Sacchetti (born 1944 ) is an Italian screenwriter who often worked with Italian directors Lamberto Bava and Lucio Fulci. Screenwriting Sacchetti was born in 1944,in Italy. His first screen credit was for Dario Argento's film ''The Cat o' Nine Tails''. He predominantly worked with Lucio Fulci and Lamberto Bava Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director. Born in Rome, Bava began working as an assistant director for his director father Mario Bava. Lamberto co-directed the 1979 television film ''La Venere d'Ille'' with his father and in .... He has worked with several television film projects with Lamberto Bava in the later half of the 1980s. Sacchetti stated that for his screenplays, he would only learn who the director would be a week before the film went into production. Producers such as De Angelis would come to him and ask him to write two to five lines for a film in various genres such as adventure films, westerns and pornography. Following this post ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Script Doctor
A script doctor is a writer or playwright hired by a film, television, or theatre production company to rewrite an existing script or improve specific aspects of it, including structure, characterization, dialogue, pacing, themes, and other elements. Script doctors generally do their work uncredited for a variety of commercial and artistic reasons. They are usually brought in for scripts that have been almost "green-lit" during the development and pre-production phases of a film to address specific issues with the script, as identified by the financiers, production team, and cast. To receive credit, the Writers Guild of America screenwriting credit system requires a second screenwriter to contribute more than 50 percent of an original screenplay or 33 percent of an adaptation. Uncredited screenwriters are not eligible to win the Academy Award or the Writers Guild of America Award. Examples Many screenwriters have done uncredited work on screenplays: * Paul Attanasio: ''Speed'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1987 Horror Films
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Italian Horror Films
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Psychotronic Video
''Psychotronic Video'' was a film magazine founded by publisher/editor Michael J. Weldon in 1980 in New York City, covering what he dubbed "psychotronic movies", which he defined as "the ones traditionally ignored or ridiculed by mainstream critics at the time of their release: horror, exploitation, action, science fiction, and movies that used to play in drive-ins or inner city grindhouses." It was published through 2006. Most of the magazine's hundreds of reviews were written by Weldon himself. Other contributors provided career histories/interviews with cult filmmakers and actors such as Radley Metzger, Larry Cohen, Jack Hill, William Rotsler, David Carradine, Sid Haig, Karen Black, and Timothy Carey. Regular features included "Record Reviews" by Art Black, "Spare Parts" (covering fanzines and comics) by Dale Ashmun, and "Never To Be Forgotten", an obituary column. The magazine spawned two books that, like Danny Peary's ''Cult Movies'' trilogy, helped establish a foundation for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Creature From The Black Lagoon
''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' is a 1954 American black-and-white 3D monster horror film produced by William Alland and directed by Jack Arnold, from a screenplay by Harry Essex and Arthur Ross and a story by Maurice Zimm. It stars Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, and Whit Bissell. The film's plot follows a group of scientists who encounter a piscine amphibious humanoid in the waters of the Amazon; the Creature, also known as the Gill-man, was played by Ben Chapman on land and by Ricou Browning underwater. Produced and distributed by Universal-International, ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' premiered in Detroit on February 12, 1954, and was released on a regional basis, opening on various dates. ''Creature from the Black Lagoon'' was filmed in three dimensions (3D) and originally projected by the polarized light method. The audience wore viewers with gray polarizing filters, similar to the viewers most commonly used to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Nightmare On Elm Street
''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' is a 1984 American supernatural slasher film written and directed by Wes Craven and produced by Robert Shaye. It is the first installment in the ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' franchise and stars Heather Langenkamp, John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger, and Johnny Depp in his film debut. Craven filmed ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' on an estimated budget of $1.1 million. The film was released on November 9, 1984, and grossed $57 million worldwide. ''A Nightmare on Elm Street'' was met with rave critical reviews and is considered to be one of the greatest horror films ever made, spawning a franchise consisting of six sequels, a television series, a crossover with ''Friday the 13th'', various other merchandise, and a remake of the same name.Jim Harper, ''Legacy of Blood: A Comprehensive Guide to Slasher Movies'' (Manchester, Eng.: Headpress, 2004), p. 126, . Aside from ''Stunts'', ''Polyester'', and ''Alone in the Dark'', i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quatermass And The Pit (film)
''Quatermass and the Pit'' (US title: ''Five Million Years to Earth'') is a 1967 British science fiction horror film from Hammer Film Productions, a sequel to the earlier Hammer films ''The Quatermass Xperiment'' and ''Quatermass 2''. Like its predecessors it is based on a BBC Television serial, in this case ''Quatermass and the Pit'', written by Nigel Kneale. It was directed by Roy Ward Baker and stars Andrew Keir in the title role as Professor Bernard Quatermass, replacing Brian Donlevy, who played the role in the two earlier films. James Donald, Barbara Shelley and Julian Glover appear in co-starring roles. The storyline, which is largely faithful to the original television production, centres on the discovery of a mysterious object buried at the site of an extension to the London Underground. Also uncovered nearby are the remains of early human ancestors more than five million years old. Realising that the object is in fact an ancient Martian spacecraft, Quatermass deduces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marché Du Film
The ''Marché du Film'' (french for "Film Market") is one of the largest film markets in the world.Marché du Film intro Cannes Festival website. Established in 1959, it is held annually in conjunction with the Festival de Cannes as known as the . With 12,500 participants from 121 different countries, more than 4,000 films and projects were presented in 2019. History 1950 Before the Marché du Film was created, film production companies rented the cinema rooms to show their films and organize the beginnings of a fi ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Variety (magazine)
''Variety'' is an American media company owned by Penske Media Corporation. The company was founded by Sime Silverman in New York City in 1905 as a weekly newspaper reporting on theater and vaudeville. In 1933 it added ''Daily Variety'', based in Los Angeles, to cover the motion-picture industry. ''Variety.com'' features entertainment news, reviews, box office results, cover stories, videos, photo galleries and features, plus a credits database, production charts and calendar, with archive content dating back to 1905. History Foundation ''Variety'' has been published since December 16, 1905, when it was launched by Sime Silverman as a weekly periodical covering theater and vaudeville with its headquarters in New York City. Silverman had been fired by ''The Morning Telegraph'' in 1905 for panning an act which had taken out an advert for $50. As a result, he decided to start his own publication "that ouldnot be influenced by advertising." With a loan of $1,500 from his father- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghostbusters
''Ghostbusters'' is a 1984 American Supernatural fiction, supernatural comedy film directed and produced by Ivan Reitman, and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, and features Annie Potts, William Atherton, and Ernie Hudson in supporting roles. Based on his own fascination with spirituality, Aykroyd conceived ''Ghostbusters'' as a project starring himself and John Belushi, in which they would venture through time and space battling supernatural threats. Following Belushi's death in 1982, and with Aykroyd's concept deemed financially impractical, Ramis was hired to help rewrite the script to set it in New York City and make it more realistic. It was the first comedy film to employ expensive special effects, and Columbia Pictures, concerned about its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The World According To Garp (film)
''The World According to Garp'' is a 1982 American comedy-drama film produced and directed by George Roy Hill and starring Robin Williams in the title role. Written by Steve Tesich, it is based on the 1978 novel ''The World According to Garp'' by John Irving. For their roles, John Lithgow and Glenn Close (in her film debut) were respectively nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and Best Actress in a Supporting Role at the 55th Academy Awards. Plot T.S. Garp is the out-of-wedlock son of a feminist mother, Jenny Fields, who wanted a child but not a husband. A nurse during World War II, she encounters a dying ball turret gunner known only as Technical Sergeant Garp ("Garp" being all he is able to utter) who was severely brain damaged in combat, whose morbid priapism allows her to rape him and get impregnated. She names the resultant child after Garp. Garp grows up and becomes interested in wrestling and fiction writing, topics his mother has little interest in. Garp's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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