Joe Dante — Actor (27)
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Creadores de criaturas: El complejo Frankenstein (2015) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Creature Designers: The Frankenstein Complex
director: Gilles Penso / Alexandre Poncet actor: Alec Gillis / Chris Walas …
other title: Amabili mostri - 100 anni di effetti speciali / Le complexe de Frankenstein …
Desde sus orígenes a la revolución digital, el cine siempre ha creado monstruos. Le Complexe de Frankenstein es un viaje a lo largo de un siglo de imaginación. Con suculentas entrevistas y con material exclusivo de películas como Gremlins o Parque Jurásico, el documental explora el inquebrantable vínculo entre las criaturas y sus creadores, auténticos doctores Frankenstein del séptimo arte.
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Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters (2024) [Movie] Skybridge IMDb TMDB
Hammer: Heroes, Legends and Monsters
director: Benjamin Field actor: Charles Dance / Tim Burton …
other title: Hammer: Heroes, leyendas y monstruos
A look at Hammer’s progression from a back office in London’s Regent Street to its iconic status within the horror film genre. The company, started by comedian and businessman William Hinds in 1934, made films such as The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and The Quatermass Xperiment during the period for which it is best known, making stars out of the likes of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing.
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Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp (2020) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Time Warp Vol. 3: Comedy and Camp
director: Danny Wolf actor: Joe Dante / John Waters …
The final volume of Time Warp digs deep into what makes us laugh over and over again as we reveal the greatest cult comedies and campy classics of all-time. From "Fast Time at Ridgemont High" and "Office Space" to "Monty Python and the Holy Grail," and "Showgirls."
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Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi (2020) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Time Warp Vol. 2: Horror and Sci-Fi
director: Danny Wolf actor: Joe Dante / Kevin Pollak …
The greatest cult horror and science fiction films of all-time are studied in vivid detail in the second volume of Time Warp. Includes groundbreaking classics like "Night of the Living Dead," and "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," and sci-fi gems such as "Blade Runner," and "A Clockwork Orange."
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Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness (2020) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
director: Danny Wolf actor: Jeff Bridges / Gary Busey …
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.
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Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster (2021) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Boris Karloff: The Man Behind the Monster
director: Thomas Hamilton actor: Boris Karloff / Sara Karloff …
Beginning just before his debut as Frankenstein’s creation, this documentary compellingly explores the life and legacy of a cinema legend, presenting a perceptive history of the genre he personified. Karloff's films were long derided as hokum and attacked by censors, but his phenomenal popularity and pervasive influence endures, inspiring some of our greatest actors and directors into the 21st Century – among them Guillermo Del Toro, Ron Perlman, Roger Corman, and John Landis, all of whom and many more contribute their personal insights and anecdotes.
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Machete Maidens Unleashed! (2010) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
director: Mark Hartley actor: Roger Corman / Colleen Camp …
other title: Hollywood Se Déchaine À Manille / ¡Doncellas del machete desatadas!
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.
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A Fuller Life (2013) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A Fuller Life
director: Samantha Fuller actor: Samuel Fuller / James Franco …
Friends and admirers of iconoclastic film director Sam Fuller read from his memoirs in this unconventional documentary directed by Fuller's only child, Samantha.
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Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Flying Saucers Over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion
director: Mark Patrick Carducci actor: Forrest J. Ackerman / Carl Anthony …
other title: Flying Saucers over Hollywood
A documentary detailing the making of the cult favorite "Plan 9 from Outer Space," featuring interviews with cast members and prominent filmmakers about the film, its lasting legacy, and its creator, Edward D. Wood Jr.
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Eating Raoul (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Eating Raoul
director: Paul Bartel actor: Paul Bartel / Mary Woronov …
other title: Tudo por Dinheiro / ¿Y si nos comemos a Raúl? …
A prudish married couple feel put upon by the swingers living in their apartment building. One night, by accident, they discover a way to both rid themselves of the “perverts” down the hall and simultaneously realize their dream of opening a restaurant.
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Oscar (1991) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData NeoDB Douban
Oscar
director: John Landis actor: Sylvester Stallone / Marisa Tomei …
other title: Oscar - Un fidanzato per due figlie / Oscar - A Mala das Trapalhadas …
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
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Love, Antosha (2019) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban
Love, Antosha
director: Garret Price actor: Anton Yelchin / Viktor Yelchin …
other title: Con amore, Antosha
From a prolific career in film and television, Anton Yelchin left an indelible legacy as an actor. Through his journals and other writings, his photography, the original music he wrote, and interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues, this film looks not just at Anton's impressive career, but at a broader portrait of the man.
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Cannonball (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Cannonball
director: Paul Bartel actor: Gerrit Graham / David Carradine …
other title: Cannonball! / Verdens største bilmassakre
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman, his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.
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Sleepwalkers (1992) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sleepwalkers
director: Mick Garris actor: Brian Krause / Mädchen Amick …
other title: I sonnambuli / Søvngængerne …
Charles Brady and his mother, Mary, are the last of a dying breed whose needs are not of this world. They are Sleepwalkers - able to stay alive only by feeding on the life-force of the innocent, but destined to roam the earth, avoiding discovery while searching for their next victim. That search takes them to the sleepy little town of Travis, Indiana, where beautiful teenager Tanya Robertson is about to become an unwilling pawn in their nightmarish fight for survival.