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Trilogy Of Terror II
''Trilogy of Terror II'' is a 1996 American made-for-television anthology horror film and a sequel to ''Trilogy of Terror'' (1975), both directed by Dan Curtis. The film follows the formula of the original, with one female lead (Lysette Anthony) playing parts in each of three segments. In the episode "He Who Kills", one of the museum security guards is reading a ''Dark Shadows'' comic book, and enthuses about how he used to rush home from school to watch it. Dan Curtis created the TV series ''Dark Shadows'' in 1966. Plot The Graveyard Rats A wealthy man by the name of Ansford ( Matt Clark) discovers his young wife Laura (Lysette Anthony) having an affair with her cousin. Having video proof, he orders Laura to be faithful and honest or he will turn the video over to the news stations and cut her out of his multimillion-dollar will. Meanwhile, her lover Ben ( Geraint Wyn Davies) comes up with the idea to murder Ansford and collect all his money. After Ansford is pushed down the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Curtis
Dan Curtis (born Daniel Mayer Cherkoss; August 12, 1927 – March 27, 2006) was an American director, writer, and producer of television and film, known among fans of horror films for his afternoon TV series ''Dark Shadows'' (1966–1971) and its 1991 remake, and TV films such as '' The Night Stalker'' (1972), '' Bram Stoker's Dracula'' (1974) and ''Trilogy of Terror'' (1975). He also directed three feature films – the ''Dark Shadows'' spinoffs ''House of Dark Shadows'' (1970) and ''Night of Dark Shadows'' (1971), and the supernatural horror '' Burnt Offerings'' (1976). For general audiences, Curtis is also known as the director and producer of the highly-rated miniseries ''The Winds of War'' (1983) and its sequel ''War and Remembrance'' (1988), based on two novels by Herman Wouk, which follow the lives of two American families through World War II. Career Curtis's series of macabre films includes ''House of Dark Shadows'', ''Night of Dark Shadows'', '' The Night Stalker'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Microform
Microforms are scaled-down reproductions of documents, typically either films or paper, made for the purposes of transmission, storage, reading, and printing. Microform images are commonly reduced to about 4% or of the original document size. For special purposes, greater optical reductions may be used. Three formats are common: microfilm (reels), microfiche (flat sheets), and aperture cards. Microcards, also known as "micro-opaques", a format no longer produced, were similar to microfiche, but printed on cardboard rather than photographic film. History Using the daguerreotype process, John Benjamin Dancer was one of the first to produce microphotographs, in 1839. He achieved a reduction ratio of 160:1. Dancer refined his reduction procedures with Frederick Scott Archer's wet collodion process, developed in 1850–51, but he dismissed his decades-long work on microphotographs as a personal hobby and did not document his procedures. The idea that microphotography could be no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis O'Connor (actor)
Dennis O'Connor may refer to: * Dennis O'Connor (judge), Associate Chief Justice of Ontario * J. Dennis O'Connor (born 1942), Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh * Dennis James O'Connor (1886–1946), Quebec politician * Dennis O'Connor (actor) in '' The Park Is Mine'' See also *Denis O'Conor *Denis Charles Joseph O'Conor *Denis Maurice O'Conor Denis Maurice O'Conor ( ga, Donnchadh Muirgheas Ó Conchubhair Donn; 1840 – 26 July 1883) was an Irish barrister and Liberal Party politician who represented County Sligo in the House of Commons. The second son of Denis O'Conor, O'Conor Don ... * Denis O'Connor (other) {{DEFAULTSORT:Oconnor, Dennis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Quigley
Gerry Quigley (3 November 1928 – 23 December 2003) was a trade unionist and political activist in Northern Ireland. Quigley grew up in the Donegall Pass area of Belfast. He studied at St Joseph's Training College before working as a primary school teacher.Obituary: Gerry Quigley ", '''', 23 December 2003 Quigley was appointed Northern Secretary of the (INTO) in 1954. In this role, he secured |
Thomas Mitchell (actor, Fl
Thomas or Tom Mitchell may refer to: Politics * Thomas Alexander Mitchell (1812–1875), British Member of Parliament for Bridport * Thomas B. Mitchell (died 1876), New York politician * Thomas R. Mitchell (1783–1837), U.S. Representative from South Carolina * Tom Mitchell (Australian politician) (1906–1984), Australian politician, author and skier * Tom Mitchell (Irish politician) (1931–2020), Irish republican Sports * Thomas Mitchell (football manager) (1843–1921), manager of Blackburn Rovers and Woolwich Arsenal football clubs * Thomas Mitchell (Kent cricketer) (1907–1960), English cricketer * Tom Mitchell (American football) (1944–2017), American football player * Tom Mitchell (Australian footballer) (born 1993), Australian rules football player * Tom Mitchell (English footballer) (1899–1984), English footballer and manager * Tom Mitchell (rugby union, born 1958), Fijian rugby union player * Tom Mitchell (rugby union, born 1989), English rugby union player, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Fitzpatrick (actor)
General Richard FitzPatrick (24 January 174825 April 1813), styled The Honourable from birth, was an Anglo-Irish soldier, wit, poet, and Whig politician. He sat in the British House of Commons for 39 years from 1774 to 1813 and was a "sworn brother" of the statesman Charles James Fox. He served in the Philadelphia campaign during the American Revolutionary War. Family and childhood FitzPatrick was a younger son of John FitzPatrick, 1st Earl of Upper Ossory, and Lady Evelyn, daughter of John Leveson-Gower, 1st Earl Gower. He had an elder brother, John FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Upper Ossory, and two sisters: Mary, who later married Charles James Fox's brother Stephen Fox, 2nd Baron Holland, and Louisa, who became the second wife of Fox's Whig adversary William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne. After the death of her husband in 1758, Fitzpatrick's mother brought her children to England and soon remarried Richard Vernon, an original member of the Jockey Club. Lady Evelyn bore her seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blake Heron
Blake Christopher Heron (January 11, 1982 – September 8, 2017) was an American actor. He is best known for his starring role as Marty Preston in the 1996 film '' Shiloh''. He died of an accidental drug overdose, aged 35. Early life Heron was born in Rockville Centre, New York on January 11, 1982. After his parents divorced, he moved with his mother to Atlanta, then to New York City, and finally to Burbank, California, where he began his acting career. Career He made his film debut for the Disney film ''Tom and Huck'' (1995) and the television series '' Reality Check''. When the series did not last, Heron starred in several television movies, including ''Trilogy of Terror II'' (1996). '' Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher'' (1996) was his biggest role at the age of 14. He played the flirtatious jock, Jordan. In 1997, he played the lead role of Marty Preston in the Warner Bros. film '' Shiloh''. After graduating from high school in 2000, Heron avoided child roles and took on more se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Lewis (actor)
Geoffrey Bond Lewis (July 31, 1935 – April 7, 2015) was an American character actor. He appeared in more than 200 films and television shows, and was principally known for his film roles alongside Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford. He typically portrayed villains or quirky characters. He played a bodyguard in the Jean-Claude van Damme film ''Double Impact''. Life and career Lewis was born July 31, 1935, in Plainfield, New Jersey, but spent much of his youth in Wrightwood, California. He studied theater arts at San Bernardino Valley College for two years, then worked as a truck driver and at other odd jobs before launching his career as an actor. He took acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City and performed off-Broadway and at regional theaters in Massachusetts. He tried breaking into Hollywood in the 1960s. Lewis appeared in TV series' including ''Bonanza'', ''Gunsmoke'', '' Mannix'', '' Mission: Impossible'', ''Cannon,'' ''Barnaby Jones'', ''Mork & Mindy' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sulfuric Acid
Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid ( Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen and hydrogen, with the molecular formula . It is a colorless, odorless and viscous liquid that is miscible with water. Pure sulfuric acid does not exist naturally on Earth due to its strong affinity to water vapor; it is hygroscopic and readily absorbs water vapor from the air. Concentrated sulfuric acid is highly corrosive towards other materials, from rocks to metals, since it is an oxidant with powerful dehydrating properties. Phosphorus pentoxide is a notable exception in that it is not dehydrated by sulfuric acid, but to the contrary dehydrates sulfuric acid to sulfur trioxide. Upon addition of sulfuric acid to water, a considerable amount of heat is released; thus the reverse procedure of adding water to the acid should not be performed since the heat released may boi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Butcher Knife
A butcher knife or butcher's knife is a knife designed and used primarily for the butchering or dressing of animal carcasses. Use Today, the butcher knife is used throughout the world in the meat processing trade. The heftier blade works well for splitting, stripping and cutting meat. Other similar meat-cutting knives include the carving knife and the cleaver. The carving knife is usually designed for slicing thin cuts of meat and often has a blunt or rounded point, with a scalloped or ''Granton'' blade to improve separation of sliced cuts of meat. The cleaver is similar to the butcher's knife, but has a lighter and thinner blade for precision cutting. History From the late 18th century to the mid-1840s, the butcher knife was a key tool for mountain men. Simple, useful and cheap to produce, they were used for everything from skinning beaver, cutting food, self-defense, and scalping. During this time, John Wilson, of Sheffield, England Sheffield is a city in South Yorks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Key Of Solomon
The ''Key of Solomon'' ( la, Clavicula Salomonis; he, מפתח שלמה []) (Also known as "The Greater Key of Solomon") is a pseudepigraphical grimoire (also known as a book of spells) attributed to Solomon, King Solomon. It probably dates back to the 14th or 15th century Italian Renaissance. It presents a typical example of Renaissance magic. It is possible that the ''Key of Solomon'' inspired later works, particularly the 17th-century grimoire also known as ''Clavicula Salomonis Regis'', ''The Lesser Key of Solomon'', or ''Lemegeton'', although there are many differences between the books. Manuscripts and textual history Many such grimoires attributed to King Solomon were written during the Renaissance, ultimately being influenced by earlier works of Jewish kabbalists and Arab magicians. These, in turn, incorporated aspects of the Greco-Roman magic of Late Antiquity. Several versions of the ''Key of Solomon'' exist, in various translations, with minor to significant differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Of Night (1977 Film)
''Dead of Night'' is a 1977 American made-for-television anthology horror film starring Ed Begley Jr., Anjanette Comer, Patrick Macnee, Horst Buchholz and Joan Hackett. Directed by Dan Curtis, the film consists of three stories written by Richard Matheson (although the first segment, "Second Chance", was adapted from a story by Jack Finney) much like the earlier ''Trilogy of Terror''. The film originally premiered on NBC on March 29, 1977. Plot "Second Chance" The first segment features Ed Begley Jr. as a man who restores a 1926 roadster and finds himself transported back in time. ;Cast * Ed Begley Jr. as Frank * E. J. André as Mr. McCauley *Ann Doran as Mrs. McCauley *Christina Hart as Helen "No Such Thing as a Vampire" The second segment features Anjanette Comer as a woman who seems to be actively terrorized by a vampire. Patrick Macnee plays her husband who attempts to deal with her terror by engaging the services of a friend, Michael (Horst Buchholz). ;Cast * Patrick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
