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James Karen
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James Karen is an American character actor of Broadway, film and television. Karen is best remembered for his roles in Poltergeist, The Return of the Living Dead, Invaders from Mars, Karen is also known for his recurring television role as Tom Bradfords boss, Eliot Randolph in Eight is Enough. He also appeared in commercials for Pathmark which earned his nickname Mr. Pathmark and he was nominated for a Saturn Award for his 1985 role in The Return of the Living Dead. Karen was born Jacob Karnofsky in Wilkes-Barre, in northeastern Pennsylvania, the son of Russian-born Jewish immigrants Mae and Joseph H. Karnofsky, as a young man, Karen was encouraged to be an actor by U. S. Congressman Daniel J. Flood, who was an amateur thespian himself and he attended the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. The first movie Karen has recalled seeing was the Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill Jr and he was later a very good friend of Keaton. His big break came when he was asked to understudy Karl Malden in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, on television, he played Dr. Burke on As the World Turns and was the original Lincoln Tyler on All My Children. He is perhaps best known for his role on the television series Eight Is Enough. He is also well-known on the East Coast for his 20 years as television, on the streets of New York, Karen was known as Mr. Pathmark. Karen appeared in an episode of the 1977 NBC situation comedy The Kallikaks, a decade later, he appeared in an episode of The Golden Girls as a prospective love interest for Dorothy. He is also known for playing the evil tycoon Nathan Lassiter, Karen has been a lifelong member of The Actors Studio. Karens notable film credits include in The China Syndrome, Poltergeist, The Return of the Living Dead, in most recent years, Karen has been recognized for his role as Martin Frohm in the 2006 film The Pursuit of Happyness. He was married to Susan Reed, the actress and folk singer. They divorced in 1967, and in 1986, he married current wife Alba Francesca, Karen has one child and two grandchildren. Karen was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Actor for his role in The Return of the Living Dead in 1985, for his contributions to the horror film industry, Karen received an honorary Saturn Award in 1998. He was nominated for a Fangoria Chainsaw Awards for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Unborn in 1991, voisin, Scott, Character Kings, Hollywoods Familiar Faces Discuss the Art & Business of Acting. Psychotronic Video Magazine,1997 no.24 James Karen by writer/interviewer Dennis Daniel, James Karen at the Internet Movie Database James Karen at the Internet Broadway Database Great Character Actors / James Karen Pathmark TV commercial with James Karen on YouTube
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Thom Mathews
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Mathews began his acting career in the early 1980s as a model and commercial actor, starring in national television commercials for Le Tigre, Sprite and Tostitos. His first major role was Freddy in the 1985 cult classic The Return of the Living Dead, Mathews has been referred to as the Paul Newman of horror flicks. Mathews has starred in eleven Albert Pyun films and he went on to star in Friday the 13th Part VI, Jason Lives being the third actor to portray Tommy Jarvis after Corey Feldman and John Shepherd. Mathews now co-owns a construction company, Hammer and Trowel, sharon and Ozzy Osbourne hired his company to remodel their home during the filming of their MTV reality show The Osbournes. On May 10,2014, Thom Mathews married Karla Jensen in Los Cabos, Thom Mathews at the Internet Movie Database
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Dana Ashbrook
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Dana Vernon Ashbrook is an American actor, perhaps best known for playing Bobby Briggs on the cult TV series Twin Peaks and its 1992 prequel film Twin Peaks, Fire Walk with Me. Ashbrook was born in San Diego, California, his mother, DAnn is a teacher and his father and he is the brother of writer Taylor Ashbrook and actress Daphne Ashbrook. After Twin Peaks went off the air, Ashbrook portrayed Clyde Barrow in the 1992 TV film, Bonnie & Clyde and he starred in the 1995 science fiction TV pilot W. E. I. R. D. World, written and produced by the makers of the Tales from the Crypt TV show, in 1997, he won the starring role of Gary McDermott on the short-lived TV series Crisis Center. He also starred in the films Shes Out of Control, Comfortably Numb, The Last Place On Earth and he played the recurring role of Rich Rinaldi on the TV series Dawsons Creek. In 2009, Ashbrook joined the cast of the series Crash for the part of Jimmy. In 2010, he reunited with some of the cast of Twin Peaks on the episode of Psych. He starred in 2012 with Ray Wise and Derek Mears in the Steven C. Miller psycho-thriller The Aggression Scale, Ashbrook will return to his role as Bobby Briggs in the 2017 revival of Twin Peaks
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Lorimar Television
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Lorimar, later known as Lorimar Television and Lorimar Distribution, was an American production company that was later a subsidiary of Warner Bros. active from 1969 until 1993. It was founded by Irwin Molasky, Merv Adelson, and Lee Rich, who named the company by combining their initials - LR, IM, and MA. Inspired by Adelsons ex-wife, Lori, an O was added as was a final R, the company was founded on $185,000 loan Merv Adelson gave to Lee Rich. Prior to Lorimar, Rich had a reputation, first as an advertising executive at Benton & Bowles, then as a television producer. Lorimar initially started producing movies for the ABC Movie of the Week. Rich bought the script to an adaptation of Earl Hamner Jr. s novel The Homecoming and subsequently sold the rights to CBS. The Homecoming, A Christmas Story, airing during the 1971 holiday season, was a ratings success, throughout the 1970s, Lorimar produced several other shows, as well, including Eight is Enough, of these, the most popular by far was Dallas. In 1980, Lorimar purchased the bankrupt Allied Artists Pictures Corporation, in 1984-85, three of the top 10 shows in the United States were produced by Lorimar, Dallas, Knots Landing, and Falcon Crest. In the mid-1980s, Lorimars output swung toward family-friendly sitcoms, among these were The Hogan Family, Perfect Strangers, and Full House, in 1985, Lorimar announced their intention to buy a 15% share in the then-troubled Warner Communications company. Around that same year, Rich left the company and moved to MGM, in 1988, Lorimar-Telepicturess production arm became Lorimar Television, however, the L-T distribution business remained until 1989. Lorimars distribution business was folded into Warner Bros, Television Distribution and became Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, since then, the Telepictures name has been resurrected as both a company, and once again as a syndication company. The former MGM studio lot was sold to Sony to house Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Lorimar continued as a production company until July 1993, when it was folded into Warner Bros. Television, for issues as a result of declining syndication sales. The last series to premiere under the Lorimar name was Time Trax, les Moonves was the president and CEO of Lorimar Television from 1990 to 1993. Moonves then became the chairman of Warner Bros, Television after the merger with Lorimar. Additionally, Lorimar has owned key components of the library of the defunct Allied Artists film studio, which includes Cabaret and Papillon. Animation-produced revival show aired on Cartoon Network for one season in 2011, Lorimar not only specialized in producing television programs, they also produced a number of theatrical motion pictures, most of which were originally distributed by other studios
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Comedy horror
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Comedy horror is a literary 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, the genre almost inevitably crosses over with the black comedy genre. Comedy horror will often use satire on horror cliches as its source of humour or take a story in a different perspective, such as The Cabin in the Woods. 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. Horror and comedy have been associated with each other since the days of horror novels. Shortly after the publication of Frankenstein, comedic parodies appeared, edgar Allan Poe put humor and horror on the same continuum, and many nineteenth century authors used black humor in their horror stories. Contemporary author Robert Bloch called them opposite sides of the same coin, in comedy horror film, gallows humor is a common element. In the era of silent film, the material for early comedy horror films came from stage performances instead of literature. One example, The Ghost Breaker, was based on a 1909 play, in the United States following the trauma of World War I, film audiences sought to see horror on screen but tempered with humor. The pioneering comedy horror film was One Exciting Night, written, directed, and produced by D. W. Griffith, while the film included blackface performances, Griffith also included footage of a hurricane for a climactic storm. As an early experiment, the genres were not well-balanced with horror and comedy. Charles Bramesco of Vulture. com identifies Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein as the first commercially successful horror film. Its success legitimized the genre and established it as commercially viable, List of comedy-horror films List of genres Zombie comedy – a subgenre involving zombies Hallenbeck, Bruce G. Comedy-Horror Films, A Chronological History, 1914–2008. Jefferson, NC, McFarland & Company, Inc, transnational Horror Across Visual Media, Fragmented Bodies. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
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The Return of the Living Dead
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The Return of the Living Dead is a 1985 American horror comedy film written and directed by Dan OBannon, and starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, and Don Calfa. The film was a success and performed moderately well at the box office. Its enduring popularity has spawned four sequels and turned it into a cult classic, Frank accidentally unleashes the toxic gas, which renders the two unconscious. When waking up, Frank and Freddy find that the gas reanimated a cadaver inside a meat locker, and contact their boss and warehouse owner Burt Wilson to help them deal with the situation. When decapitation cannot kill the cadaver, Burt decides to bring the corpse to the mortuary to have its dismembered parts burned in a gambit to destroy it once. Meanwhile, Freddys friends learn of his new job from his girlfriend Tina, the group, consisting of Spider, Trash, Scuz, Suicide, Casey, and Chuck, decide to pick Freddy up after he finishes his shift and wait inside the local cemetery. Tina leaves the graveyard and enters the warehouse to look for Freddy and her search leads her to the basement, where she unwittingly draws attention from the half-melted corpse from the drum barrel who was initially thought to have dissolved. She locks herself inside a closet after a failed attempt to run. At the mortuary, Burt gets the mortician Ernie to burn the remains, not realizing that it causes the gas to contaminate the air, the acid rain forces Freddys friends to refuge inside the warehouse. Once inside, the group hears the basement commotion and immediately rush down to rescue Tina and this forces the group, including Tina, to abandon Suicide and barricade the door to stop Tarman from coming up. Outside, the runs through the cemetery to look for Freddy. While the group is running Trash gets surrounded by and eaten by zombies, Tina, Spider, and Scuz go to the mortuary, Chuck and Casey head back to the warehouse where Tarman remains trapped downstairs. Frank and Freddy have grown increasingly ill from their exposure to the gas, when Burt and Ernie find out about the graveyard zombies, they quickly barricade the mortuary after a failed attempt to escape using the ambulance. Scuz is killed protecting the barricade and the zombies continue to eat the paramedics. With Frank and Freddy showing signs of becoming zombies themselves, Burt has them locked in the chapel, meanwhile, Trash rises as a zombie and starts a semi-organized horde that attacks the reinforcements head-on. Freddy succumbs as zombie and tries to eat Tina, but is blinded with acid thrown by Ernie, Frank also escapes and cremates himself inside the retort. Burt and Spider use a car outside to escape, but the growing horde of zombies leaves them unable to come back for Ernie. They retreat to the warehouse and the car due to a gasoline leak
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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa
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Mausoleum
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A mausoleuma is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph, a mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. A Christian mausoleum sometimes includes a chapel, the word derives from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Historically, mausolea were, and still may be, large, however, smaller mausolea soon became popular with the gentry and nobility in many countries. In the Roman Empire, these were often ranged in necropoles or along roadsides, however, when Christianity became dominant, mausoleums were out of use. Later, mausolea became particularly popular in Europe and its colonies during the modern and modern periods. A single mausoleum may be permanently sealed, a mausoleum encloses a burial chamber either wholly above ground or within a burial vault below the superstructure. This contains the body or bodies, probably within sarcophagi or interment niches, modern mausolea may also act as columbaria with additional cinerary urn niches. Mausolea may be located in a cemetery, a churchyard or on private land, in the United States, the term may be used for a burial vault below a larger facility, such as a church. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California, for example, has 6,000 sepulchral and it is known as the crypt mausoleum. In Europe, these vaults are sometimes called crypts or catacombs. Mausoleum of Mohammed V Bourguiba mausoleum The Dr. John Garang De Mabior mausoleum in Juba, agostinho Netos Mausoleum in Luanda, Angola. Omar Bongos Mausoleum in Franceville, Gabon, kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum Marien Ngouabis mausoleum and Pierre Savorgnan de Brazzas mausoleum in Brazzaville, The Republic of Congo. Mausoleum of the late president Felix Houphouet-Boigny in Yamoussoukro, Côte dIvoire, laurent Kabilas mausoleum in Kinshasa, The Democratic Republic of Congo. The pyramids of ancient Egypt and Nubian pyramids are also types of mausolea, Abdel Nasser Mosque, is the Mausoleum of Gamal Abdel Nasser, in Cairo, Egypt. Unknown Soldier Memorial Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania Al Hussein Mosque, Cairo – Holy Shrine and mausoleum, Qalawun Mausoleum is the Mausoleum of Qalawun, Located in Cairo, Egypt, it was regarded by scholars as the second most beautiful medieval mausoleum ever to be built. Jedars - thirteen ancient monumental Berber mausoleums located south of Tiaret, Late President Eyademas Family Mausoleum in Kara, Togo. Kamuzu Banda Mausoleum, in Lilongwe, Malawi, Dr. Bingu wa Mutharika, President of Malawi built a mausoleum in which his late first wife and Bingu himself are buried
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Grave robbery
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Grave robbery, tomb robbing, or tomb raiding is the act of uncovering a tomb or crypt to steal artifacts or personal effects. A related act is body snatching, a term that is related to the taking of ones body, grave robbery pertains to the disinterring of a grave chiefly for the purpose of stealing a corpse and/or stealing other objects. Grave robbing has caused difficulty to the study of archaeology, art history. Countless precious grave sites and tombs have been robbed before scholars were able to examine them, grave robbers usually sell their goods on the black market. Though some artifacts may make their way to museums or scholars, chinese jade burial suits were believed to be myths for many years until two were discovered in 1968, it is now believed that most jade burial suits were removed long ago by grave robbers. Grave robbing is still problematic in 21st century China, the increase in technology, such as night vision goggles, air breathing equipment, and metal detectors allows grave robbers to better find and rob ancient gravesites. There are institutions in which you can learn how to rob graves– “for about 200 yuan a day, land surveying skills are first taught, before progressing to probes and shovels, then finally explosives. After 10 days, adepts have the chance to assist an instructor in a real tomb robbery”, Ancient Egyptian tombs are one of the most common examples of tomb or grave robbery. Most of the tombs in Egypts Valley of the Kings were robbed within one hundred years of their sealing, Egyptian pharaohs often kept records of the precious items in their tombs, so an inventory check is presumed for archaeologists. Oftentimes, warnings would be left by the Pharaohs in the tombs of calamities and curses that would be laid upon any who touched the treasure, or the bodies, there are many examples of grave robbing in the Ancient World outside of Egypt. For instance, the Romans also suffered decades of theft and destruction of tombs, crypts, there are also many grave robbers in Central and Northern Europe, mostly working with metal detectors. Merovingian graves in France and Germany but also Anglo-Saxon graves in England contain many metal grave goods, grave robbers often leave them, being only interested in gold and silver. Grave contexts, ceramics, iron weapons and skeletons are destroyed, modern grave robbing in North America also involves long-abandoned or forgotten private Antebellum Period to pre-Great Depression era grave sites. These sites are often desecrated by grave robbers in search of old, hence valuable, affected sites are typically in rural, forested areas where once-prominent, wealthy landowners and their families were interred. The remote and often undocumented locations of defunct private cemeteries make them susceptible to grave robbery. The practice may be encouraged by default upon the discovery of an unknown family cemetery by a new landowner. However, a secret agent was present and had notified the police beforehand. The buyers did not often suffer the repercussions of being in possession of stolen goods, todays antiquities trade has become a streamlining industry – and the speed these artifacts enter the market has grown exponentially
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Crowbar (tool)
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The term jammy or jimmy most often refers to the tool when used for burglary. It is used as a lever either to force apart two objects or to remove nails, crowbars are commonly used to open nailed wooden crates, remove nails, or pry apart boards. Crowbars can be used as any of the three lever classes but the end is usually used as a first-class lever, and the flat end as a second class lever. In mining, crowbars are used to break and remove rock, normally made of medium-carbon steel, they can alternatively be made from titanium, which has the advantages of being lighter and nonmagnetic. The least expensive, most common crowbars are forged from hexagonal or sometimes cylindrical stock, more expensive designs may be forged with an I-shaped cross-section shaft. The accepted etymology identifies the first component of the word crowbar with the bird-name crow, the first attestation of the word is circa 1400
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Mitch Pileggi
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Mitchell Craig Mitch Pileggi is an American actor, best known for his role as Walter Skinner on The X-Files. He also had a role on Stargate Atlantis as Colonel Steven Caldwell. He appeared in the 2008 film Flash of Genius, in 2008, he began a recurring role as Ernest Darby in Sons of Anarchy. He starred as Harris Ryland in the TNT revival of Dallas, Pileggi, one of several children, was born in Portland, Oregon, the son of Maxine Anna, a homemaker, and Vito Pileggi, a defense contractor. His family moved frequently because of his fathers occupation, and Pileggi lived in Oregon, California, Pileggi was a high school athlete, concentrating on wrestling and football. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, receiving a degree in business, for a while he worked in Iran as a defense contractor, until the 1979 Iranian revolution caused him and his brother to have to flee the country, escaping to Greece. Pileggi began acting while he was a school student in Turkey. Pileggi appeared playing the villain in the 1991 television film, Knight Rider 2000, Pileggi also appeared briefly in the 1992 film Basic Instinct as an investigating police officer in the interrogation scene of Michael Douglas. His most notable role was as the FBIs Assistant Director Walter Skinner on The X-Files, the role was originally recurring, but the part expanded, and in 2001 he became a regular member of the cast. The character gradually became the most integral character besides the two leads and he remained with the show until its end in 2002. Pileggi played the character in the 1998 X-Files film and in the 2008 film The X-Files and he also reprised the role in the 2016 miniseries. Pileggis later work has included starring in the short-lived TV show Tarzan and co-starring with Barbara Hershey and he also appeared in an episode of CSI, Crime Scene Investigation and in 2006 had a regular guest role on Day Break as Robbery/Homicide Detective Spivak. Pileggi also played the role of Larry Jennings, chairman of the board of the hospital, in Greys Anatomy, Pileggi appeared in two episodes of Law and Order, Special Victims Unit as DEA agent Jack Hammond. Since 2008, Pileggi has played Ernest Darby, the head of a white supremacist gang called the Nordics and he also played spree killer Norman Hill on a season four episode of Criminal Minds, titled Normal. Pileggi has also some voice acting. His voice was featured as the githzerai Dakkon in the video game Planescape and he voices Commissioner James Gordon on the new Kids WB. animated show The Batman. Pileggi also hosted the controversial FOX specials Breaking the Magicians Code, Magics Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed and Conspiracy Theory and he also played the recurring role of Sam and Dean Winchesters maternal grandfather, Samuel Campbell, in the TV series Supernatural. Pileggi starred in the TNT drama series Dallas as Harris Ryland and he was promoted to series regular as of second season
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Forrest J Ackerman
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He was based in Los Angeles, California. During his career as an agent, Ackerman represented such science fiction authors as Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, A. E. Van Vogt, Curt Siodmak. He was, for seven decades, one of science fictions staunchest spokesmen. Ackerman was the editor and principal writer of the American magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, as well as an actor, and Charles Beaumont, The Short Life of Twilight Zones Magic Man, about the late author Charles Beaumont, a former client of The Ackerman Agency. Famous for his play and neologisms, he coined the genre nickname sci-fi. In 1953, he was voted #1 Fan Personality by the members of the World Science Fiction Society and he was also among the first and most outspoken advocates of Esperanto in the science fiction community. Ackerman was born Forrest James Ackerman, on November 24,1916, in Los Angeles, to Carroll Cridland and his father was from New York and his mother was from Ohio, she was nine years older than William. His name was used for the character of the reporter in the original Superman story The Reign of the Superman in issue 3 of Science Fiction magazine and he was one of the early members of the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society, and remained active in it for many decades. He attended the 1st World Science Fiction Convention in 1939, where he wore the first futuristicostume and sparked fan costuming and he attended every Worldcon but two thereafter during his lifetime. Ackerman invited Ray Bradbury to attend the Los Angeles Chapter of the Science Fiction League, the club changed its name to the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society during the period it was meeting at the restaurant. Among the writers frequenting the club were Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, Bradbury often attended meetings with his friend Ray Harryhausen, the two Rays had been introduced to each other by Ackerman. With $90 from Ackerman, Bradbury launched a fanzine, Futuria Fantasia and this second house, in the Los Feliz district of Los Angeles, contained some 300,000 books and pieces of movie and science-fiction memorabilia. From 1951 to 2002, Ackerman entertained some 50,000 fans at open houses - including, on one such evening, Ackerman was a board member of the Seattle Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame, where many items of his collection are now displayed. He knew most of the writers of fiction in the first half of the twentieth-century. As a literary agent, he represented some 200 writers, and he served as agent of record for many long lost authors and he was Ed Woods illiterary agent. Ackerman was credited with nurturing and even inspiring the careers of several early contemporaries like Ray Bradbury, Ray Harryhausen, Charles Beaumont, Marion Zimmer Bradley and his stories have been translated into six languages. Ackerman named the sexy comic-book character Vampirella and wrote the story for the comic. He also authored several lesbian stories under the name Laurajean Ermayne for Vice Versa and he was dubbed an honorary lesbian at a DOB party
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Doug Benson
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He currently serves as a judge for the Comedy Central series The High Court with Doug Benson. In 2007, he starred in the film Super High Me, Benson also currently hosts the popular Doug Loves Movies podcast along with his weekly marijuana video podcast show Getting Doug with High. His Comedy Central series The Benson Interruption ended its first season in December 2010 and was turned into a monthly podcast in January 2011. Benson was born and raised in San Diego, California, to parents Wendy, a clerk, and Robert Matthew Benson. After attending Grossmont College, a community college in El Cajon, while in Los Angeles, Benson began doing stand-up after he and two other friends dared each other to. One of them didnt show, and the one signed up too late. Benson claimed that I went in anyway and did my three minutes of whatever I could come with and people actually laughed, one of Bensons earliest jobs in television was writing for the MTV game-show Trashed in 1994. Along with comedian friends Arj Barker and Tony Camin, Benson co-created and performed in the comedy stage-show The Marijuana-Logues and he also hosted High Times 6th annual Stony Awards with rapper Redman. Benson appeared on the compilation album Comedy Death-Ray. On August 4,2009, Bensons second album, Unbalanced Load, was released by Comedy Central Records and his third album, Hypocritical Oaf was released on August 31,2010. Benson aims to record a new album every April 20 for as many years as possible. Bensons fourth album, Potty Mouth, was released on August 29,2011. The pattern continued with the release of his album, Smug Life, which was released on July 3,2012. On July 8,2014, Doug released a sequel to Gateway Doug entitled Gateway Doug 2 and his latest album release is Promotional Tool which came out on June 9,2015. In 2006, Benson began hosting a comedy podcast, titled Doug Loves Movies. The show typically tapes weekly, and is archived on iTunes for fans to listen to for free. Benson and guests talk about movies and comedy both, miller, Kumail Nanjiani, Gillian Jacobs, Michael Sheen. A regular feature of the podcast is the Leonard Maltin Game, the game consists of Benson reading excerpts from a Leonard Maltin review and guests wagering how many names, read from the bottom of the cast list up, it would take for them to identify the movie
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Island Records
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Island Records is a major record label that operates as a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. It was founded by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall and Leslie Kong in Jamaica in 1959, Blackwell sold the label to PolyGram in 1989. Three Island labels exist in the world, Island UK, Island US, and Island Australia, current key people of Island Records include Island president Darcus Beese, OBE and MD Jon Turner. Partially due to the labels significant legacy, Island remains one of UMGs pre-eminent record labels, Island Records was founded in Jamaica on 4 July 1959 by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall and Leslie Kong, and partially financed by Stanley Borden from RKO. Its name was inspired by the Harry Belafonte song Island in the Sun. Blackwell explained in 2009, “I loved music so much, I just wanted to get into it, or be as close to it as I could. ”Tom Hayes, the labels sales manager between 1965 and 1967, referred to the early period of the label in the UK as “organized chaos”. “My Boy Lollipop”, sung by Millie Small, was the labels first success in the UK, Blackwell explained in a 50-year-anniversary documentary that he was only interested in building long-term careers at that stage in time, rather than short-term projects. Suzette Newman has been a colleague of Chris Blackwells since working together in the early days of Island Records. Suzette Newman and Chris Salewicz were the editors for the book “The Story of Island Records, Blackwell relocated to England in May 1962 to garner greater levels of attention after the local Jamaican sound systems proved to be overwhelmingly successful. The vast majority of the artists who had signed to Blackwells fledgling label while he was in Jamaica agreed to allow the entrepreneur to release their music in the UK. While in England, Blackwell travelled throughout the city carrying his stock with him and he did not provide any copies to radio stations, as they would not play any of the Island music, the music was also not reviewed by the press. Meanwhile, Goodall left to start the Doctor Bird record label in 1965, Blackwell signed the Spencer Davis Group to the label. The group became popular and Island started their own independent series to spotlight UK rock talent. They signed artists like John Martyn, Fairport Convention, Free, by the late 1960s and early 1970s, they were a major label in England with artists like Roxy Music, King Crimson, Traffic, The Wailers, and many others. Blackwell had signed Bob Marley, and now Toots and the Maytals, in November 2016, Jackie Jackson described the formation of the group in a radio interview for Kool 97 FM Jamaica. Accompanied by Paul Douglas and Radcliffe Dougie Bryan in studio, Jackson explained, Were all original members of Toots, first it was Toots and the Maytals, three guys, Toots, Raleigh, and Jerry. …And then they were signed to Island Records, Chris Blackwell, and we were their recording band. One day we were summoned to Chris house, and he says, Alright gentleman, I think its time
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Julian Cope
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Julian David Cope is an English musician, author, antiquarian, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator. Cope is also an author on Neolithic culture, publishing The Modern Antiquarian in 1998, Copes family lived in Tamworth, Staffordshire, but he was born in Deri, Caerphilly, Wales, where his mothers parents lived, while she was staying there. Cope was staying with his grandmother near Aberfan on his birthday, which was the day of the Aberfan disaster of 1966. Cope grew up in Tamworth with his parents and his younger brother Joss and he played Oliver in Wilnecote High Schools production of the musical. He attended City of Liverpool C. F, mott Training College, and it was here that he first became involved in music. In July 1977, Cope was one of the founders of Crucial Three, post-Crucial Three, Cope, and McCulloch initially went on to form other short-lived bands UH. and A Shallow Madness. When Cope sacked McCulloch from A Shallow Madness, McCulloch went on to form Echo, the two former bandmates would maintain a frequently antagonistic rivalry from then on, often carried out in public or in the press. In 1978, Cope formed The Teardrop Explodes with drummer Gary Dwyer, organist Paul Simpson and guitarist Mick Finkler, with himself as singer, bass player, drawing on a post-punk version of West Coast pop music, the band became part of a wave of neo-psychedelic Liverpool bands. Cope and Dwyer were the only constants, although seven other members passed in. Several well-received early singles culminated in the bands biggest hit, Reward, Copes photogenic charm and wild, garrulous interview style helped keep the band in the media eye, and made him a short-lived teen idol during the bands peak. Success brought the Teardrops plenty of attention, but no further stability, Cope, however, has strenuously resisted taking advantage of any nostalgic and commercial opportunities to reunite the band. In 1982 Cope had moved to the Staffordshire village of Drayton Bassett, following the dissolution of The Teardrop Explodes, he spent a period in seclusion recovering from the strain of the groups final year and amassing a collection of vintage toys. During this period, Cope befriended a teenage Drayton Bassett musician called Donald Ross Skinner, in 1983 Cope began recording the songs for his first solo album, World Shut Your Mouth. Although the album retained the uptempo pop drive of the Teardrops, it was also an introspective. Former Teardrops drummer Gary Dwyer, guitarist Steve Lovell and Dream Academy oboist Kate St. John all contributed to the album, World Shut Your Mouth was seen as out-of-step with the times, gained poor reviews and sold indifferently. A single from the album, Sunshine Playroom, featured a video directed by David Bailey. During a concert at Hammersmith Palais on the subsequent promotional tour, although the wounds were superficial, it shocked the audience and resulted in another memorable addition to his reputation for bizarre behaviour. Notoriously, the featured a naked Cope crouched on top of the Alvecote Mound slag heap clad only in a large turtle shell
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Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction
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Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction are a British hard rock group. The band is the brainchild of Mark Manning, a graphic artist. He joined another music publication called Metal Fury as a graphic designer but would assume the alter ego Zodiac Mindwarp at night. Zodiac soon left Metal Fury and formed the Love Reaction in 1985 with Jimmy Cauty, who later formed The Orb, The JAMS, and The KLF on guitar, Kid Chaos on bass and Boom Boom Kaboomski on drums. The band was signed to the Food label of Phonogram Records who soon issued their first recording, Wild Child with just Zodiac, Kid Chaos on bass, a demo version of High Priest of Love was included on the Melody Maker Vinyl Conflict 2 free EP in September 1986. By the end of the year the lineup had changed again to accommodate the still present figure of Cobalt Stargazer and that lineup would contribute the studio track, Drug Shoes, to the FOOD Imminent 2 various artists compilation. At various times, the band has also featured Evil Bastard, Heavy Metal Bear, Trash D Garbage, Flash Bastard, Suzi X, Tex Diablo, Zodiac regrouped by assigning Trash D Garbage on Bass and Flash Bastard on rhythm guitar section. The expanded five member outfit all went on to record Zodiac Mindwarp, other band members playing bass include Suzi X, Tex Diablo and Kev Reverb. Previous drummers were Robbie Vomm and The Apocalypse, the camp lyrics are intended as self-parody, and can be seen as either humorous, or offensive by those who take them at face value, for their often lascivious and misogynist tone. Song titles like Back Seat Education, Feed My Frankenstein, High Heeled Heaven, lyrical content also exhibits a send up of cult worship, often of Zodiac Mindwarps self-proclaimed raging libido, with Mindwarp claiming the titles sex fuhrer, love dictator, and high priest of love. They toured the US supporting Alice Cooper and Guns N Roses on dozens of dates in 1988, after a few gigs, they were moved up to the middle of the bill between Cooper and Guns N Roses. Occasionally referred to as rock, the bands style of hard rock is reflected in their outlandish attire. Mötley Crüe declared them to be their band and immediately restyled themselves for the Girls, Girls, Girls record. They adopted a common street look recently, circa their comeback. In recent years, Manning has established himself as an author, penning Bad Wisdom, Crucify Me Again, Get Your Cock Out, Fucked by Rock, Collateral Damage, Manning is also a regular contributor to The Idler magazine. Mindwarp co-wrote the track Theres a Barbarian in the Back of My Car on the Voice of the Beehive album Let It Bee and he also wrote the track Feed My Frankenstein which was covered on the Alice Cooper album Hey Stoopid. Due to Alice changing a number of the lyrics for his version. Zodiac Mindwarp and The Love Reactions own version of the song appeared on the album Hoodlum Thunder, in 1992 Mindwarp appeared on the album 456 by The Grid, performing lead vocals on the track Fire Engine Red
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I'm the Man (EP)
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Im the Man is the name of the second EP by the band Anthrax. The album was released in 1987 by Megaforce Worldwide/Island Records, the band, Eddie Kramer and Paul Hammingson produced the album, which includes the single Im the Man. Im the Man was certified platinum by the RIAA and its song is considered among the first rap metal songs. Its title track is a comedy/novelty song which parodies the style of the Beastie Boys, on live performances, Joey Belladonna and Charlie Benante would switch places, Benante performing some of the raps and Belladonna drumming. A7 single also appeared, containing only tracks 2 and 3, the beginning of Im the Man features an electric guitar sample of Jewish folk song Hava Nagila, which can also be heard in the chorus. The chorus lyrics are borrowed from one of Taylor Negrons lines in the Rodney Dangerfield movie Easy Money, rather than using a sample, the lines are performed by Frankie Bello. Anthrax even used one of Sam Kinisons famous primal screams for the song, a few times after Im The Man is said, you can hear Shut Up from Run–D. M. C. s You Talk Too Much off their 1985 album King of Rock. Quite a few times throughout Im the Man the Yeah that begins the song Fight for Your Right by the Beastie Boys on their 1986 debut, Licensed to Ill is sampled. Also, the drum rhythm through the song is very reminiscent to Billy Squiers The Big Beat. Joey Belladonna – Lead vocals, drums Dan Spitz – Lead guitar Scott Ian – Rhythm guitar, rapping, vocals Frank Bello –Bass guitar, rapping, vocals Charlie Benante – Drums, rapping, vocals
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Anthrax (American band)
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Anthrax is an American thrash metal band from New York City, formed in 1981 by guitarist Scott Ian and bassist Dan Lilker. The group was considered one of the leaders of the metal scene during the 1980s. Of the Big Four thrash metal bands, Anthrax were the band from the East Coast. As of 2016, the band has released 11 studio albums, several other albums, according to Nielsen SoundScan, Anthrax sold 2.5 million records in the United States from 1991 to 2004, with worldwide sales of 10 million. Noted for its performances, Anthrax signed with the independent label Megaforce Records. Lilker soon left the band to form Nuclear Assault, and was replaced by roadie Frank Bello, vocalist Neil Turbin was replaced after two years by Matt Fallon who was then subsequently replaced in 1984 by Joey Belladonna. With a new lineup, the band recorded Spreading the Disease in 1985, Anthraxs third album, Among the Living, was released in 1987 to critical praise. The band experienced another change in 1992, when John Bush from Armored Saint replaced Belladonna as lead vocalist. Sound of White Noise was released the year, peaking at number seven on the Billboard 200. Studio recordings during the 1990s saw the band, influenced by other genres, Anthraxs lineup has changed several times over their career. The band has had a number of vocalists including Neil Turbin, Joey Belladonna, Dan Nelson, founding member Scott Ian and early arrival Charlie Benante, who joined Anthrax in 1983, are the only band members to appear on every album. Bassist Frank Bello has played on album, except for the bands debut Fistful of Metal. In 2010, Joey Belladonna returned to Anthrax and has recorded two more studio albums with the band, Worship Music and For All Kings. Anthrax was formed in Queens, New York City, on July 18,1981 by guitarists Scott Ian and Dan Lilker, the band was named after the disease of the same name which Ian saw in a biology textbook. The name was chosen because it sounded sufficiently evil, Anthraxs initial line-up was completed by singer John Connelly, drummer Dave Weiss and bassist Paul Kahn. Kahn was briefly replaced by bassist Kenny Kushner before Lilker took over on bass, Weiss was then replaced early on by Greg DAngelo, who was recommended to the band by Greg Walls. Scott Ians younger brother Jason Rosenfeld was a temporary vocalist until Ians former schoolmate Neil Turbin joined the band in late August 1982, the band recorded its first demo tape during this time. The bands first performance with Neil Turbin was at Great Gildersleeves and this line-up played regularly in the New York-New Jersey area over the next several months
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Mantronix
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Mantronix was an influential 1980s hip hop and electro funk music group from New York City. The band was formed by DJ Kurtis Mantronik and rapper MC Tee, the group is primarily remembered for its pioneering blend of old school hip hop, electronic, and club music. They underwent several genre and line-up changes during its existence between 1984–91, and released five albums beginning with their 1985 debut Mantronix, The Album. In 1984, while working as the in-store DJ for Downtown Records in Manhattan, Kurtis Mantronik met MC Tee, the duo soon made a demo, Fresh Is The Word, and eventually signed with William Socolovs Sleeping Bag Records. Mantronixs second album, Music Madness, was released in 1986, in Full Effect marked the last Mantronix album with rapper MC Tee, who left the group to enlist in the United States Air Force. Following the departure of MC Tee, rapper [[Bryce Wilson|Bryce Luvah Wilson This Should Move Ya, Mantronik met Wilson, a fellow Sleeping Bag Records label mate, while doing production for Wilsons aborted solo project. The album spawned two hits on the British singles chart, Got to Have Your Love at No. 4, and Take Your Time at No.10, in the United States, the album reached No.61 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. In a 1991 interview, Kurtis Mantronik commented on the success of Got to Have Your Love, Mantronixs final release. D, was The Incredible Sound Machine in 1991, grammy-nominated neo soul singer/songwriter Angie Stone co-wrote seven of the eleven tracks that appeared on The Incredible Sound Machine. The Incredible Sound Machine, which tended to favor R&B, new jack swing, shortly after a European tour and promotion related to the release of The Incredible Sound Machine, the group disbanded, and Mantronik left the music industry altogether for seven years. Kurtis Mantronik resurfaced in Europe in the late 1990s, producing house- and techno-music artists, Mantronix at soulmovement. nl AllMusic. com Biography – Mantronix Discogs Profile – Mantronix Angie Stone 2016 Interview at Soulinterviews. com
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Monster Mash
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Monster Mash is a 1962 novelty song and the best-known song by Bobby Boris Pickett. The Monster Mash single was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on October 20–27 of that year and it has been a perennial holiday favorite ever since. Pickett was an actor who sang with a band called the Cordials at night while going to auditions during the day. One night, while performing with his band, Pickett did a monologue in imitation of horror movie actor Boris Karloff while performing the Diamonds Little Darlin, the audience loved it, and fellow band member Lenny Capizzi encouraged Pickett to do more with the Karloff imitation. Pickett and Capizzi composed Monster Mash and recorded it with Gary S. Paxton, pianist Leon Russell, Johnny MacRae, Rickie Page, the song was partially inspired by Paxtons earlier novelty hit Alley Oop, as well as by the Mashed Potato dance craze of the era. A variation on the Mashed Potato was danced to Monster Mash, in which the footwork was the same but Frankenstein-style monster gestures were made with the arms and hands. The song is narrated by a mad scientist whose monster, late one evening, the dance becomes the hit of the land when the scientist throws a party for other monsters. The producers came up with several low-budget but effective sound effects for the recording, for example, the sound of a coffin opening was imitated by a rusty nail being pulled out of a board. The sound of a cauldron bubbling was actually water being bubbled through a straw, Pickett also impersonated horror film actor Bela Lugosi as Dracula with the lyric Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist. The song was re-released several times and appeared in the US Billboard charts on three occasions after the release, December 1962, August 1970 and May 1973. The BBC had banned the record from airplay in 1962 on the grounds that the song was too morbid and it was re-released in the United Kingdom in 1973, where it peaked at #3 in early October. In August 1973, the song was re-released and peaked at #10 on the Hot 100 charts, to celebrate this popular release, Bobby and the Crypt-Kickers toured Dallas and St. Louis around the 1973 Halloween holiday. On this tour, the Crypt-Kickers were composed of Brian Ray, drummer Brian Englund, keyboardist Don Chambers, singer Jean Ray, the Monster Mash re-entered the British Charts again on November 2,2008 at #60. Https, //weeklytop40. wordpress. com/1973-all-charts/ Monsters Holiday, a Christmas-themed follow up, was recorded by Pickett and released in December 1962, the tune was penned by the renowned novelty song composer Paul Harrison. The problem is solved when he teaches the monster to rap, a movie musical based on the song starring Pickett was released in 1995. Monster Mash became a pop standard, and many cover versions have been recorded over the years. The 1962 album Monster Mash by American television host and radio personality John Zacherle includes his version of the song Monster Mash, the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band released a version on their 1969 album Tadpoles. The 1977 group Children Of The Night performing under the alias Monsters released their version of Monster Mash on H & L Records, blair Packham wrote and performed One Hit Wonder in 2004, about the later years of Bobby Picketts musical career and Picketts relationship with his most-recognized song
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Leatherwolf
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Leatherwolf is an American heavy metal band that formed in Huntington Beach, California in 1981. They split up in 1990, but reunited in 1999, the group is also nicknamed the Triple Axe Attack for pioneering the use of a 3-guitar line-up in heavy metal. Currently comprising vocalist and guitarist Michael Olivieri, guitarists Rob Math and Joey Tafolla, bassist Patrick Guyton, and drummer Dean Roberts, Leatherwolf has gone through many line-up changes, leaving Roberts as the only constant member. Though the band continues to live, they have not released any studio material since their 2007 album New World Asylum. Leatherwolf quickly caught the attention of Enigma Records affiliated indie label Tropical Records who financed the bands eponymous 1984 5-song EP, in 1986, Matt Hurich left to join the band Stryper and was replaced by Paul Carman, formerly of Black Sheep. The band signed a new major record deal with Island Records. A video for the first single, The Calling, was shown on MTV and it was followed up with another single, Cry Out, featuring a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revivals Bad Moon Rising on the B-side. For 1989s Street Ready album, recorded in the Bahamas, the band kept on Beamish as producer but tapped German expatriate Michael Wagener for the mix. Leatherwolf finally made their European live debut in the spring of 1989 with an appearance at the Aardschokdag in the Netherlands and opening slots for Japans Vow Wow and German metallers Zed Yago. The overall lack of support began to take its toll on the bands inner workings. Roberts joined The Rod Squad, led by former Knightmare II vocalist Dennis The Rod Carlock, even bigger changes lay ahead as Leatherwolf dropped their trademark style in favor of a bluesier approach and Guns N Roses-style visuals. With Pat Guyton replacing Paul Carman on bass, the band had morphed into Hail Mary by 1991. Leatherwolf was one of few bands that historically many feel never got enough credit and has been ranked as one of the most underrated heavy rock bands of the 80s by fans. Grand Slamm Records re-issued the self-titled Leatherwolf debut on CD in 1991, Leatherwolf also made their return to Europe with an exclusive show the at Wacken Open Air festival in Germany that same year. Further activities remained few and far between, and Michael Olivieri announced his departure in the spring of 2003 after supporting Halford at the Grove in Anaheim, festival in Germany in June, with Paul Carman back in the fold on bass for the occasion. The band also shot a video for the song Behind The Gun with director Karpis Maksudian. Former Hail Mary and Shotgun Messiah member Patrick Guyton took over on bass for the bands ProgPower USA festival appearance in Atlanta, GA in the fall 2006. Original members Carey Howe and Michael Olivieri returned in 2007 and Leatherwolf re-issued World Asylum with Olivieris vocals in place of Wade Black as New World Asylum, again mixed by Hansen
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Robert Palmer (singer)
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Robert Allen Palmer was an English singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. He was known for his distinctive, soulful voice, eclectic mix of styles on his albums, combining soul, jazz, rock, pop, reggae, blues. He found success both in his career and with the Power Station, and had Top 10 songs in both the UK and the US. Palmers involvement in the music industry commenced in the 1960s, covered four decades, Palmers father was a British naval intelligence officer stationed in Malta. Palmer moved with his family from Batley to Scarborough, North Yorkshire in 1949. Influenced as a child by blues, soul and jazz music on American Forces Radio, Robert Palmer joined his first band, The Mandrakes, at the age of 15 while still at Scarborough Boys High School. His first major break came with the departure of singer Jess Roden from the band The Alan Bown Set in 1969, the vocals for the album The Alan Bown Set. Originally recorded by Roden, were re-recorded by Palmer after the success of the single, according to music journalist Paul Lester, Palmer rose from northern clubs in England to become elegant and sophisticated and the master of several styles. In 1970 Palmer joined the 12-piece jazz-rock fusion band Dada, which featured singer Elkie Brooks, the band lasted a year, after which Brooks and Palmer formed the critically acclaimed, but commercially unsuccessful, rhythm and blues group, Vinegar Joe, Palmer sang and played rhythm guitar. Signed to the Island Records label, they released three albums, Vinegar Joe, Rock n Roll Gypsies and Six Star General, before disbanding in March 1974, Island Records signed Palmer to a solo deal in 1974. Although unsuccessful in the UK, both the album and single reached the Top 100 in the US. Notably, Sailin Shoes, Palmers own Hey Julia and the Allen Toussaint–penned title track carry virtually the same rhythm, and were packaged on the album as a trilogy without a pause between them. After relocating with his wife to New York City, Palmer released Pressure Drop, named for the version of the reggae hit by Toots & the Maytals. An album infused with his interests in reggae and rock music, it was noted for its cover art of a woman on the threshold of a balcony. He toured with Little Feat to promote the album, however, with the failure of follow-up album Some People Can Do What They Like, Palmer decided to move to Nassau, Bahamas, directly across the street from Compass Point Studios. In 1978, he released Double Fun, a collection of Caribbean-influenced rock, the album reached the Top 50 on the US Billboard chart and scored a Top 20 single with the Andy Fraser–penned Every Kinda People. The song has been covered by artists including Chaka Demus and Pliers, Randy Crawford. It reached No.16 on the Billboard Hot 100, Palmers next album was an artistic departure, concentrating on pure rock
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DVD
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DVD is a digital optical disc storage format invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. The medium can store any kind of data and is widely used for software. DVDs offer higher capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. Pre-recorded DVDs are mass-produced using molding machines that physically stamp data onto the DVD, such discs are a form of DVD-ROM because data can only be read and not written or erased. Blank recordable DVD discs can be recorded using a DVD recorder. Rewritable DVDs can be recorded and erased many times, DVDs containing other types of information may be referred to as DVD data discs. The OED also states that in 1995, The companies said the name of the format will simply be DVD. Toshiba had been using the name ‘digital video disk’, but that was switched to ‘digital versatile disk’ after computer companies complained that it left out their applications, Digital versatile disc is the explanation provided in a DVD Forum Primer from 2000 and in the DVD Forums mission statement. There were several formats developed for recording video on optical discs before the DVD, Optical recording technology was invented by David Paul Gregg and James Russell in 1958 and first patented in 1961. A consumer optical disc data format known as LaserDisc was developed in the United States and it used much larger discs than the later formats. CD Video used analog video encoding on optical discs matching the established standard 120 mm size of audio CDs, Video CD became one of the first formats for distributing digitally encoded films in this format, in 1993. In the same year, two new optical disc formats were being developed. By the time of the launches for both formats in January 1995, the MMCD nomenclature had been dropped, and Philips and Sony were referring to their format as Digital Video Disc. Representatives from the SD camp asked IBM for advice on the system to use for their disc. Alan E. Bell, a researcher from IBMs Almaden Research Center, got that request and this group was referred to as the Technical Working Group, or TWG. On August 14,1995, an ad hoc group formed from five computer companies issued a release stating that they would only accept a single format. The TWG voted to both formats unless the two camps agreed on a single, converged standard. They recruited Lou Gerstner, president of IBM, to pressure the executives of the warring factions, as a result, the DVD specification provided a storage capacity of 4.7 GB for a single-layered, single-sided disc and 8.5 GB for a dual-layered, single-sided disc
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Scream Factory
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Scream Factory is a subsidiary of Shout. The label releases a number of films, mostly horror and science fiction, with dedicated cult followings. Nearly all are exclusively on Blu-ray, while some are packaged in a Combo Pack with both Blu-ray and DVD with others sometimes being released separately as both. Announced on May 31,2012, the label was launched on September 18,2012 with Special Edition DVD and Blu-ray releases of Halloween II and Halloween III, in February 2015, Scream Factory made a deal with IFC Midnight to release their titles on their label. This included the Blu-ray and DVD release of The Babadook, among others, Factory Roger Cormans Cult Classics Majordomo Records — an indie record label formed as an imprint and partnership with Shout
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Blu-ray
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Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc is a digital optical disc data storage format. It was designed to supersede the DVD format, in that it is capable of storing high-definition, the plastic disc is 120 mm in diameter and 1.2 mm thick, the same size as DVDs and CDs. Conventional Blu-ray Disc discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual layer discs being the standard for feature-length video discs. Triple-layer discs and quadruple layers are available for BD-XL re-writer drives, the name Blu-ray refers to the blue laser used to read the disc, which allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs. The main application of Blu-ray is as a medium for video material such as films and physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4. Besides the hardware specifications, Blu-ray is associated with a set of multimedia formats, high-definition video may be stored on Blu-ray discs with up to 2160p resolution, at up to 60 frames per second. DVD discs had been limited to a resolution of 480p or 576p. The BD format was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group representing makers of consumer electronics, computer hardware, Sony unveiled the first Blu-ray disc prototypes in October 2000, and the first prototype player was released in April 2003 in Japan. Afterwards, it continued to be developed until its release in June 2006. During the high definition disc format war, Blu-ray Disc competed with the HD DVD format. Toshiba, the company that supported HD DVD, conceded in February 2008. According to Media Research, high-definition software sales in the US were slower in the first two years than DVD software sales, Blu-ray faces competition from video on demand and the continued sale of DVDs. As of January 2016, 44% of U. S. broadband households had a Blu-ray player, the information density of the DVD format was limited by the wavelength of the laser diodes used. Following protracted development, blue laser diodes operating at 405 nanometers became available on a production basis, Sony started two projects in collaboration with Philips applying the new diodes, UDO, and DVR Blue, a format of rewritable discs that would eventually become Blu-ray Disc. The core technologies of the formats are similar, the first DVR Blue prototypes were unveiled at the CEATEC exhibition in October 2000 by Sony. A trademark for the Blue Disc logo was filed February 9,2001, on February 19,2002, the project was officially announced as Blu-ray Disc, and Blu-ray Disc Founders was founded by the nine initial members. The first consumer device arrived in stores on April 10,2003, the Sony BDZ-S77, but there was no standard for prerecorded video, and no movies were released for this player. On October 4,2004, the name Blu-ray Disc Founders was officially changed to the Blu-ray Disc Association, the Blu-ray Disc physical specifications were completed in 2004
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British Board of Film Classification
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It has a statutory requirement to classify videos, DVDs and, to a lesser extent, some video games under the Video Recordings Act 2010. The immediate impetus for the Boards formation stemmed from the surrounding the release in the UK in October 1912 of the film From the Manger to the Cross. The film, shown at the Queens Hall, London, gained considerable publicity from an outcry in the Daily Mail. And waxed indignant about the profits for its American film producers, although the clergy were invited to see it and found little to be affronted by, the controversy resulted in the voluntary creation of the BBFC, which began operating on 1 January 1913. The Boards legal basis was the Cinematograph Act 1909, which required cinemas to have licences from local authorities. Given that the law now allowed councils to grant or refuse licences to cinemas according to the content of the films they showed, the 1909 Act therefore enabled the introduction of censorship. The Boards offices were originally at 133-135 Oxford Street, London, the building is located at the junction of Wardour Street, some decisions from the early years are now subjected to derision. Informal links, to varying degrees of closeness, have been maintained between the BBFC and the Government throughout the Boards existence, in the period before the Second World War, an extensive but unofficial system of political censorship was implemented by the BBFC for the Home Office. This trend reached its climax during the 1930s, following protests from the German Embassy after the release of a film depicting the execution of Edith Cavell, intense political pressure was brought to bear on the BBFC by the Home Office. A system of script vetting was introduced, whereby British studios were invited to submit screenplays to the BBFC before shooting started. The increasing climate of post-war liberalism ensured that from the 1950s onwards, controversies involving the BBFC centred more on depictions of sex, in 1984 the organisation changed its name to reflect the fact that classification plays a far larger part in the Boards work than censorship. At that time it was responsibility for classifying videos for hire or purchase to view in the home as well as films shown in cinemas. The horror in both came through largely in their detailed prose. Had the game publishers reprinted the text in book form, it would not have carried a certificate. The first video game to be refused classification by the BBFC was Carmageddon in 1997, in June 2007, Manhunt 2 was refused classification in both its PlayStation 2 and Wii versions, meaning that the game was illegal to sell or supply. A modified version was made that was accepted by the ESRB but was refused classification from the BBFC. The second decision was overturned by the Video Appeals Committee. On 16 June 2009, the UKs Department of Culture, Media and Sport ruled in favour of the PEGI system to be the classification system for videogames
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Box Office Mojo
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Box Office Mojo is a website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way, founded in 1999. In 2008, Box Office Mojo was bought by the Internet Movie Database, the website is widely used within the film industry as a source of data. From 2002–11, Box Office Mojo had forums popular with film fans, on October 10,2014, the websites URL was redirected to Amazons IMDB. com website for one day, but the website returned the following day without explanation. Brandon Gray began the site in 1999, in 2002, Gray partnered with Sean Saulsbury and grew the site to nearly two million readers. In July 2008, the company was purchased by Amazon. com through its subsidiary, Box Office Mojo had forums with more than 16,500 registered users. On November 2,2011 the forums were closed along with any user accounts. Tracking is still very closely to the day by day, actual tabulation of distributors. The site also creates an overall chart, combining all box office returns from around the world, excluding the United States. The overall weekend chart currently tracks the Top 40 films as well as approximately fifty additional films with no ranking, the site additionally has yearly and all time features for its various territories. Box Office Mojo was as of June 2009 reporting limited data from overseas and is work on improvements, most of the international charts have not been updated since November 2014. On October 10,2014, all traffic to Box Office Mojo was redirected to IMDbs box office page, queries about the closure to IMDb and Amazon representatives were met with no response. Neither Brandon Gray, who founded the website but left several years ago after its sale to Amazon, nor Ray Subers, on Ray Subers Twitter account, he revealed the websites return, but also stated he would not answer any questions pertaining to closure. Subers subsequently left the website seven months later
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PopMatters
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PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture. PopMatters was founded by Sarah Zupko, who had established the cultural studies academic resource site PopCultures. PopMatters launched in the fall of 1999 as a site providing original essays, reviews. Over time, the site went from a publication schedule to a five-day-a-week magazine format, expanding into regular reviews, features. In the fall of 2005, monthly readership exceeded one million, from 2006 onward, PopMatters produced several syndicated newspaper columns for McClatchy-Tribune News Service. As of 2009, there are four different pop culture related columns each week, the PopMatters Book Imprint published Joss Whedon, The Complete Companion, edited by Mary Money, with Titan Books in May 2012. PopMatters publishes content from contributors located around the globe, based in six continents and its staff includes writers from various backgrounds, ranging from academics and professional journalists to career professionals and first time writers. Many of its writers are published authorities in various fields of study, notable former contributors include David Weigel, political reporter for Slate, Steven Hyden, staff writer for Grantland and author of Whatever Happened To Alternative Nation. And Rob Horning, executive editor of The New Inquiry, karen Zarker is the senior editor
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Living Dead
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The loosely connected franchise predominantly centers on different groups of people attempting to survive during the outbreak and evolution of a zombie apocalypse. After the films success, the two creators split in disagreement regarding where the series should head. The term may refer to the reanimated human corpses that feast on the flesh and/or brains of the living seen in the films. As of its latest installment, Survival of the Dead, Romeros Dead series includes six films all written, labeled Trilogy of the Dead until Land of the Dead, each film is laden with social commentary on topics ranging from racism to consumerism. The films are not produced as direct follow-ups from one another, the fifth film does not continue the depiction of the progress of the world, instead it goes back to the beginning of events from the first film, but is nonetheless contemporary as the sequels are. The films deal with how different people react to the same phenomenon ranging from citizens to police to army officials and back again. He explained this in an interview with Telegraph film reviewer Tim Robey saying, You know, I’ve made six zombie films, but that’s not what people want these days. I don’t know if that’s part of this mentality, where people tune in every week to see the same thing. Romero does not consider any of his Dead films sequels since none of the characters or story continue from one film to the next. The one exception is that the officer from Diary of the Dead. George A. Romero rewrote the screenplay, the group secures the mall, then heads to the roof where they see another survivor, Andy, who is stranded alone in his gun store, across the zombie-infested parking lot. The next day more survivors arrive at the mall and are let in, Directed by Steve Miner, the story is located in Leadville, Colorado, where the couple of Trevor and Nina find themselves in a town suddenly sealed off by military forces. People begin acting strangely and the come back to life, with the couple. There are currently two distinct franchises utilizing the Living Dead moniker, the first was Return of the Living Dead, which originated as a novel written in 1978 by John A. Russo. It was later adapted to a film by Dan OBannon, which spawned its own series of movies, with a total of four sequels. This could be more as a spin-off of Night of the Living Dead rather than sequels. OBannon discarded Russos script in its entirety and rewrote it, retaining only the title and changing the rules significantly. Although Russo and OBannon were only involved with the first film in the series
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Night of the Living Dead (film series)
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The loosely connected franchise predominantly centers on different groups of people attempting to survive during the outbreak and evolution of a zombie apocalypse. The latest installment of the series, Survival of the Dead, was released in 2009, with Origins, labeled Trilogy of the Dead until Land of the Dead, each film is laden with social commentary on topics ranging from racism to consumerism. The films are not produced as direct follow-ups from one another and this situation advances with each film, showing the world in a worsening state, but each film is independent of its predecessor. This would not have been if the original 1968 epidemic had progressed to the state that Dawn and Day had depicted. The fifth film does not continue the depiction of progress, the films depict how different people react to the same phenomenon, ranging from citizens to police to army officials and to citizens again. Romero does not consider any of his Dead films sequels since none of the characters or story continue from one film to the next. Following the scenario set up in Night of the Living Dead, despite efforts by the US Government and local civil authorities to control the situation, society has effectively collapsed and the remaining survivors seek refuge. Dwindling supplies, loss of communication with other enclaves. Dr. Logan, the lead scientist on the project, has been using the recently deceased soldiers in his experiments. Years after the events of the film, many of the living have fled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Paul Kaufman rules the city with overwhelming firepower, a prequel story set at the height of the Cold War is in production, written and directed by G. Cameron Romero, George A. Romeros son. List indicator A dark grey cell indicates that the character was not in the film or that the presence in the film has yet to be announced. A Y indicates a role as a version of the character. An O indicates a role as a version of the character. A U indicates an uncredited role, a C indicates a cameo role. A V indicates a voice-only role, an A indicates an appearance through archival footage or stills
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Night of the Living Dead
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Night of the Living Dead is a 1968 American independent horror film, directed by George A. Romero, starring Duane Jones and Judith ODea. It was completed on a $114,000 budget and premiered October 1,1968, the film became a financial success, grossing $12 million domestically and $18 million internationally. It has been a cult classic ever since, Night of the Living Dead was heavily criticized at its release for its explicit gore. This is the most easily recognized version of the dead, to the point where people gather in mass quantities for conventions dressed as zombies, complete with makeup. Barbra and Johnny Blair drive to rural Pennsylvania for a visit to their fathers grave. Barbra is attacked by a man walking in the cemetery. Johnny tries to rescue his sister, but the man throws him against a gravestone, after a mishap with the car, Barbara escapes on foot, with the stranger in pursuit, and later arrives at a farmhouse, where she discovers a womans mangled corpse. Fleeing from the house, she is confronted by strange menacing figures like the man in the graveyard, Ben takes her into the house, driving the monsters away and sealing the doors and windows. Throughout the night, Barbra slowly descends into a stupor of shock, Ben and Barbra are unaware that the farmhouse has a cellar, housing an angry married couple Harry and Helen Cooper, along with their daughter Karen. They sought refuge after a group of the same monsters overturned their car, Tom and Judy, a teenage couple, arrived after hearing an emergency broadcast about a series of brutal murders. Karen has fallen ill after being bitten by one of the monsters. They ventured upstairs when Ben turns on a radio, while Barbra awakens from her stupor, Harry demands that everyone hide in the cellar, but Ben deems it a deathtrap and continues upstairs, to barricade the house with Toms help. Radio reports explain that a wave of murder is sweeping across the eastern United States. Ben finds a television, and they watch an emergency broadcaster report that the deceased have become reanimated and are consuming the flesh of the living. Experts, scientists, and the United States military fail to discover the cause and it returned from Venus, and was deliberately exploded in the Earths atmosphere when the radiation was detected. Ben plans to obtain medical care for Karen when the listed local rescue centers offering refuge. Ben and Tom refuel Bens truck while Harry hurls molotov cocktails from a window at the ghouls. Judy follows him, fearing Toms safety, Tom accidentally spills gasoline on the truck setting it ablaze
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Dawn of the Dead (1978 film)
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Dawn of the Dead is a 1978 American independent zombie horror film directed by George A. Romero. It was written by Romero in collaboration with the Italian filmmaker Dario Argento and it was the second film made in Romeros Living Dead series, but contains no characters or settings from Night of the Living Dead, and shows in a larger scale the apocalyptic effects on society. In the film, a phenomenon of unidentified origin has caused the reanimation of the dead, who prey on human flesh, the cast features David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross as survivors of the outbreak who barricade themselves inside a suburban shopping mall. Dawn of the Dead was filmed over four months, from late 1977 to early 1978, in the Pennsylvania cities of Pittsburgh. Its primary filming location was the Monroeville Mall, the film was made on a budget estimated at $1.5 million and was a significant box office success for its time, grossing approximately $55 million worldwide. Since opening in theaters in 1978, and despite heavy gore content, in addition to four official sequels, the film has spawned numerous parodies and pop culture references. A remake of the premiered in the United States on March 19,2004. It was labeled a re-imagining of the films concept. In 2008, Dawn of the Dead was chosen by Empire magazine as one of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time, the United States is devastated by a mysterious phenomenon which reanimates recently deceased human beings as flesh-eating zombies. Despite the best efforts by the U. S. government and local authorities to control the situation, millions of people are killed and reanimate, social order is collapsing. Some rural communities and the military have been effective in fighting the hordes in open country. Meanwhile, police SWAT officer Roger DiMarco and his team raid a housing project where the residents are defying the law of delivering their dead to National Guardsmen. Some residents fight back with handguns and rifles, and are killed by both the overzealous SWAT team and their own reanimated dead, during the raid, Roger meets Peter Washington, part of another SWAT team, and they partner up together. Roger tells Peter that his friend Stephen intends to steal his workplaces helicopter and flee and they are informed of a group of zombies trapped in the basement, which they assist in the grim job of destroying. That night, Roger and Peter rendezvous with Francine and Stephen, following some close calls while stopping for fuel, the group comes across a shopping mall, which they decide to make their sanctuary. Francine reveals that she is pregnant, Peter offers to abort the child, but this is rejected. During the blockade operation, Roger becomes reckless and is bitten by the zombies, after clearing the interior of zombies, the four are able to enjoy a hedonistic lifestyle with all the goods in every store available to them. Roger eventually succumbs to his wounds, soon reanimates and is shot in the head by Peter, after several months, all emergency broadcast transmissions cease, suggesting that the government has collapsed and a large portion of the population has been killed and reanimated
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Day of the Dead (1985 film)
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Day of the Dead is a 1985 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and the third film in Romeros Dead series, being preceded by Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. Romero describes the film as a tragedy about how a lack of human communication causes chaos and this film features Sherman Howard in an early appearance as Bub, and make-up artist Gregory Nicotero playing Private Johnson and assisting Tom Savini with the make-up effects. Cannibalistic zombies have overrun the entire world, the remaining fragments of the U. S. government and military hide out in fortified military bases and colonies, attempting to find a solution to the zombie pandemic. Dr. Sarah Bowman, Private Miguel Salazar, radio operator Bill McDermott, the tension between soldiers and scientists worsens in the face of dwindling supplies, loss of communication with other survivors, and slow progress in research. Dr. Logan hopes to secure Rhodes cooperation by showing him the results of his research. He is especially proud of Bub, a zombie who remembers some parts of his past life and engages in rudimentary human behavior, listening to music, aiming a pistol. Civility must be rewarded, Logan says, If its not rewarded, theres no use for it. Theres just no use for it at all, during a zombie roundup mission, two of the soldiers, Miller and Johnson, are killed after a zombie escapes its harness, whereupon Miguel attempts to kill the creature, but is bitten on the arm. Sarah amputates the arm and cauterizes it to stop the spreading infection, Rhodes then calls off the experiments and demands that all captive zombies be destroyed. Enraged, Rhodes kills Logan and his assistant Dr. Fisher and he then locks Sarah and Bill inside the zombie corral and attempts to force John to fly him and his men away from the base, which John refuses to do. Bub manages to escape from his chain and finds Dr. Logans corpse, in a display of human emotion, he expresses sadness and then becomes enraged. He finds a pistol discarded on the floor and goes in search of revenge, meanwhile, Miguel, who has become suicidal, opens the gates to the compound, allowing the horde of zombies lurking outside to enter onto the elevator, devouring him. While Miguel is doing this, John overcomes his captors, knocking both Rhodes and Torrez out before stealing their weapons and going into the zombie corral to rescue Sarah, the zombies rapidly enter the complex, Pvt Rickles and Pvt Torrez are torn apart by the horde. Pvt Steel attempts to shoot Bub through a window, but gets bitten by another zombie. Rhodes attempts to escape, but is chased and shot several times by a gun-toting Bub, Rhodes is chased into a horde of zombies and Bub mocks Rhodes with a salute and departs. Rhodes insolently tells the zombies to Choke on em. as the zombies begin devouring his insides, John reunites with Sarah and McDermott inside the zombie corral. They escape together to the surface, board the helicopter, the film ends with Sarah crossing off a day on her calendar which counts the days since their escape from the compound. Lori Cardille as Dr. Sarah Bowman Joseph Pilato as Captain Henry Rhodes Terry Alexander as John Jarlath Conroy as William Bill McDermott Anthony Dileo Jr. as Pvt
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Land of the Dead
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Land of the Dead is a 2005 post-apocalyptic horror film written and directed by George A. It was released in 2005, with a budget of $15–19 million, the highest in the series, the story of Land of the Dead deals with a zombie assault on Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where a feudal-like government exists. The survivors in the film have fled to the Golden Triangle area of downtown Pittsburgh, the region is protected on two sides by rivers and on the other by an electric barricade that survivors term the Throat. Released in North America on June 24,2005, Land of the Dead received mostly positive reviews from film critics, years after a zombie apocalypse, survivors have set up outposts across the United States. One outpost in the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, contains a feudal-like government, bordered on two sides by rivers and on the third by an electric fence, the city has become a sanctuary. The rich and powerful live in a luxury high-rise called Fiddlers Green, paul Kaufman, the citys ruthless ruler, has sponsored Dead Reckoning, an armored personnel vehicle that can travel through the zombie-infested areas with ease. Riley Denbo is the designer and commander of Dead Reckoning, unlike Kaufman, Riley is respected for his work in protecting the citizens, as well as providing them with food and medical supplies that the citizens can no longer safely acquire themselves. Using Dead Reckoning, Riley and his crew ventured into areas overrun with zombies to scavenge for supplies, on this mission, they notice many zombies exhibiting intelligent behavior. One such zombie is Big Daddy, formerly a gas station owner, after the mission, Riley retires from commanding Dead Reckoning. Back to the city, he gets to Chihuahua s bar, there, he sees a hooker named Slack being forced in a cage with some zombies to entertain guests. Riley and Charlie save Slack, Charlie kills Chihuahua in the ensuing chaos, Riley, Charlie and Slack are arrested. Slack reveals that Kaufman ordered her execution, for helping Mulligan to instigate rebellion among the poor, meanwhile, Cholo DeMora, Dead Reckonings second in command, is denied an apartment in Fiddlers Green despite his service to Kaufman. In retaliation, Cholo takes over Dead Reckoning and threatens to destroy Fiddlers Green with it, Kaufman approaches Riley and tasks him, as well as Charlie and Slack, to retrieve Dead Reckoning. They are supervised by Manolete, Motown, and Pillsbury, on the way, Manolete is bitten and then killed by Slack. After catching up with Dead Reckoning, Riley approaches the vehicle alone, Charlie, Slack, and Pillsbury follow him after subduing Motown and leaving her behind. Realising Riley is working for Kaufman, Cholo holds both Riley and Charlie at gunpoint, as he prepares to fire Dead Reckonings missiles at Fiddlers Green, Riley uses a small device and deactivates Dead Reckonings weapons systems, he then destroys the device. Motown, who had regained consciousness, opens fire and nearly kills both Riley and Cholo and she is bitten by a zombie and killed by Slack. Riley convinces Cholo to allow him escape North and to join him, while en route, Cholo is bitten by a zombie and leaves to kill Kaufman by himself
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Diary of the Dead
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Diary of the Dead is a 2007 horror film by George A. Romero. Diary of the Dead is the film in Romeros Dead series of zombie films. It is not a sequel to previous films in the series. The film begins with footage from a cameraman and reporter. The son and wife turn into zombies and kill several medical personnel and police officers but leave one medic, the narrator, Debra, explains that most of the footage, which was recorded by the cameraman, was never broadcast. Two of the students, Ridley and Francine, decide to leave the group, when she cannot contact her family, they travel to Debras parents house in Scranton, Pennsylvania. En route Mary runs over a highway patrolman and three other zombies. The group stops and Mary attempts to kill herself and her friends take her to a hospital, where they find the dead becoming zombies, and thereafter fight to survive while traveling to Debras parents. Mary becomes a zombie and is slain by Maxwell, later Gordo is bitten by a zombie and soon afterward dies from it. His girlfriend Tracy begs the others not to him immediately. Soon they are stranded when their vehicles fuel line breaks and they are attacked by zombies while Tracy repairs the vehicle with the assistance of a deaf Amish man named Samuel. Before escaping, Samuel is bitten and kills himself and his attacker with a scythe, passing a city they are stopped by an armed group of survivors, the leader being a member of the National Guard. There, Debra receives a message from her brother, who informs her that he. The students then leave for Debras house and their only reliable source of information is now the Internet, aided by bloggers. When they arrive at Debras house, they find her mother and brother feeding on her father. They escape from the house and are stopped by different National Guardsmen and they arrive at Ridleys mansion, where Ridley explains that his parents, the staff, and Francine were killed and he buried them out back. Ridley then shows Debra and Tony that he buried his parents, Ridley then abandons Debra and Tony and is revealed to have been bitten by a zombie himself, explaining his odd behavior. Ridley soon dies, comes back as a zombie, kills Eliot, Jason is able to distract Ridley long enough for Tracy to escape
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Survival of the Dead
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Survival of the Dead is a 2009 American horror film written and directed by George A. Romero and starring Alan van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh and Kathleen Munroe. It is the entry in Romeros Night of the Living Dead series. The story follows a group of AWOL National Guardsmen who briefly appeared in Diary of the Dead, the prologue follows the actions of National Guard Sergeant Nicotine Crockett, who along with Kenny, Francisco and Tomboy, desert their posts and rob the protagonists of the previous film. Meanwhile, off the coast of Delaware lies Plum Island, home to two feuding Irish families, the OFlynns and the Muldoons, the former family, led by Patrick OFlynn, round up a posse to kill the undead on the island. OFlynn learns that the Muldoons are keeping their undead loved ones safe until a cure is found. Tensions come to a head when OFlynn and his posse arrive at a Muldoon house to dispatch their undead children, unable to put the children down himself, Patrick surrenders his weapons when the Muldoon posse arrives. Seamus Muldoon contemplates killing Patrick until Patricks daughter Janet suggests he be exiled from the island instead, Boy joins the National Guardsmen and through him they learn of Plum Island. They watch a video made by Patrick OFlynn and follow the instructions in it that leads them to a nearby dock, at the dock, OFlynn and his men attempt to rob the Guardsmen, which results in a shootout. Francisco steals a boat and bites off the finger of an attacking zombie in the process. All of the OFlynns but Patrick are killed by zombies, during the trip to the island, Patrick says that he sent other people to Plum Island to anger the Muldoons. When the group reach the island they discover that the Muldoons have chained up their zombies in imitations of their previous lives and they also see that the people sent to the island by Patrick have been killed. Patrick sees his daughter Janet ride by on a horse, apparently dead, Patrick attempts to gather allies when two Muldoons attack them, shooting Crockett and Kenny. The latter dies from his wounds, and is shot in the head by Patrick to prevent reanimation, Francisco realizes that he infected himself when bit off the zombies finger and asks Tomboy to shoot him to keep him from turning. Tomboy shoots him and is captured by Muldoon. Patrick finds out that the daughter he saw earlier was actually Janets twin sister Jane, Janet, still alive, joins Patrick and the Guardsmen in their attack on the Muldoons. A standoff occurs at the bridge that separates the two families land, and the OFlynn group is captured, Boy and Janet escape, Muldoon reveals his attempts to persuade the zombies to eat something other than human flesh and uses Jane as a test case. He tries to persuade the woman to bite her horse. A melee ensues and captured zombies are released, consuming people from both sides, Muldoon and OFlynn call a truce that is almost immediately broken when Muldoon shoots OFlynn, who pulls a hidden gun and kills Muldoon
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Night of the Living Dead (1990 film)
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Night of the Living Dead is a 1990 American horror film directed by Tom Savini and starring Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman and Tom Towles. It is a remake of George A. Romeros 1968 horror film of the same name, Romero rewrote the original 1968 screenplay co-authored by John A. Russo. Siblings Barbara and Johnnie visit their mothers grave in a remote Pennsylvania cemetery, during their visit, Barbara is attacked by a zombie. Her brother comes to her defense but is killed, Barbara flees the cemetery and discovers what at first seems to be an abandoned farmhouse. She seeks shelter there, only to find another pack of zombies, shortly after, a man named Ben arrives, and the two clear the house of the dead and begin the process of barricading the doors and windows. The group is divided over what their next course of action should be, Harry believes everyone should retreat to the cellar and barricade the door to wait for the authorities. The loud construction attracts even more zombies to the farmhouse, soon collecting a large mob, the group devises a plan to escape using Bens truck, which is out of fuel, by refueling at a locked gas pump a couple hundred yards away. A search of the corpse who lived in the farmhouse produces a set of keys. Judy Rose, Tom, and Ben proceed up the hill toward the gas pump, to their horror, the key to the gas pump is not among the bunch they brought with them. When Tom shoots the lock off, the leaking gasoline is ignited by a piece of wood in the truck. The resulting explosion kills both Tom and Judy, Ben returns to the house to find things beginning to dissolve into chaos. Harry has wrestled Barbaras gun away from her and is now armed, when Sarah makes her way upstairs she triggers a shootout between her father, who is trying to protect her, and Ben and Barbara, who are trying to protect themselves. Both Ben and Harry are badly wounded, Barbara shoots Sarah, Harry retreats upstairs to the attic, while Ben makes his way to the cellar, where he shoots a reanimated Helen. Ben gradually goes into shock, and after realizing the gas key has been in the cellar the entire time, meanwhile, Barbara leaves the house alone and attempts to find help. She eventually joins a group of Countryside locals who are clearing the area of the undead, shes awoken the next day and is surrounded by safety of the media and townspeople. Noticing hillbillies playing around with a couple of zombies, she comments on the similarities between the living and the undead and she returns to the farmhouse to find Ben, who died of his wounds and has been reanimated. He gazes at Barbara before being shot in the head by one of the posse members. When Harry emerges from the attic alive, Barbara kills him in a fit of rage for causing Ben to die, the film ends as Barbara hypnotically watches the bodies being burned in the fire
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Dawn of the Dead (2004 film)
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Dawn of the Dead is a 2004 American horror film directed by Zack Snyder in his feature film directorial debut. A remake of George A. Romeros 1978 film of the name, it is written by James Gunn and stars Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber. The special effects were done by Heather Langenkamp and David LeRoy Anderson who co-own AFX Studio, the film depicts a handful of human survivors living in a shopping mall located in the fictional town of Everett, Wisconsin surrounded by swarms of zombies. After finishing a shift as a nurse, Ana returns to her suburban neighborhood and her husband. Caught up in a date night, they miss an emergency news bulletin. The next morning, a girl named Vivian enters their bedroom. Luis approaches her to see whats wrong and she bites him on the neck. Ana locks Vivian out of the room and tries to tend to Luis who goes into shock, then dies. She attempts to call the only to find that there is no connection, as she keeps ringing, Luis rises up, now infected with the same disease. She flees in her car and drives away, seeing all around her neighbourhood. The intro scene rolls in, depicting riots and war in the major cities, upon waking, Ana is confronted by Police Sergeant Kenneth Hall, electronics salesman Michael, petty criminal Andre and his pregnant wife, Luda and joins them, after they prove she is still alive. They break into a mall and are attacked by a zombified security guard. Kenneth is also injured while wrestling with the zombie but Ana manages to subdue with his shotgun. They are then confronted by three living guards — C. J. Bart, and Terry — who make them surrender their weapons in exchange for refuge. They split into groups to secure the mall and then go to the roof where they see another survivor, Andy, the next day, a delivery truck carrying more survivors enters the lot, with zombies in close pursuit. C. J. and Bart wish to turn away but are overruled and disarmed. The newcomers include Norma, Steve Marcus, Tucker, Monica, Glen, Frank and his daughter, another woman is too ill to walk, she is wheeled inside via wheelbarrow only to die. As Ana drapes her with a cloth, however, the woman reanimates and attacks her, Ana theorizes with the group that the disease is passed by bites from the infected individuals, as she had already seen it happen with Luis
