Tom DeSimone
Birth : 1939-01-01, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
History
Tom DeSimone (born 1939) is an American director, writer, producer and editor, perhaps best known for directing the cult films Chatterbox (1977), Hell Night (1981), and The Concrete Jungle (1982).
DeSimone was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emerson College. He relocated to Los Angeles, California in the 1960s, and enrolled at the University of Southern California to earn a Master's degree in filmmaking.
DeSimone began his career as a director of numerous adult films in the late 1960s, including several gay pornography films under the pseudonym Lancer Brooks. He would later become known for directing the cult film Chatterbox (1977), produced by Bruce Cohn Curtis. Curtis would then hire him to direct his subsequent film, the cult slasher film Hell Night (1981).
He also directed the films The Concrete Jungle and Reform School Girls, and the television series Freddy's Nightmares and Dark Justice.
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Self
Cult filmmaker Tom DeSimone (Reform School Girls; Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie) revisits the production of a lost gay film and resurrects youthful adventures on the California coast. From the creators of Raw! Uncut! Video!.
Self
A making of documentary on 1986's REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS.
Breaks down individual practical effects in the film Hell Night, guided by crew interviews, including make-up artist Pam Peitzman and special effects artist John Eggett.
Director
The uninhibited young men of the 80's, that's when hard-core sex action was at its peak. It was raw, spontaneous excitement. The kind you'll always remember. The kind you can watch over and over again. The kind that takes you back to the beginning.
Writer
Molly is now a freelance photographer in New York. She runs across a woman at an art show that looks familiar. She goes to L.A. to find out that this woman is in fact, her mother. She also finds out she has a sister. The reunion is short-lived when her mother calls her to tell her that her sister is in danger and later, gets killed in an explosion. Molly must once again, become Angel to try and find her sister.
Director
Molly is now a freelance photographer in New York. She runs across a woman at an art show that looks familiar. She goes to L.A. to find out that this woman is in fact, her mother. She also finds out she has a sister. The reunion is short-lived when her mother calls her to tell her that her sister is in danger and later, gets killed in an explosion. Molly must once again, become Angel to try and find her sister.
Screenplay
Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
Director
Jenny is sent to a women's reform school. It is run by evil warden Sutter and her henchwoman Edna. Jenny will stop at nothing to escape but she also has to deal with Charlie the bully.
Writer
Seduced into a life of endless sexuality an empty romance our hero, Jock, finds himself moving through back alleys, bars and bathhouses until a mysterious stranger offers him a ticket to a club called "Paradise". Once inside, Jock discovers a bizarre world of perversion where every sexual appetite is satisfied and escape is impossible.
Director
Seduced into a life of endless sexuality an empty romance our hero, Jock, finds himself moving through back alleys, bars and bathhouses until a mysterious stranger offers him a ticket to a club called "Paradise". Once inside, Jock discovers a bizarre world of perversion where every sexual appetite is satisfied and escape is impossible.
Writer
Dr. Clark listens to female patients tell their bisexual fantasies.
Director
Dr. Clark listens to female patients tell their bisexual fantasies.
Writer
Arriving in L.A., Jill Harrington (Cara Lott) is looking for her boyfriend, Tico Patterson, and work. Considered the orginal-best bisexual flic.
Producer
Arriving in L.A., Jill Harrington (Cara Lott) is looking for her boyfriend, Tico Patterson, and work. Considered the orginal-best bisexual flic.
Director
Arriving in L.A., Jill Harrington (Cara Lott) is looking for her boyfriend, Tico Patterson, and work. Considered the orginal-best bisexual flic.
Editor
A collection of gay adult film trailers narrated by Tom DeSimone.
Director
A collection of gay adult film trailers narrated by Tom DeSimone.
Director
An unfortunate and naive girl is set-up by her boyfriend and convicted of drug smuggling. She is sent to a women's correctional facility where she must constantly struggle to survive.
Director
Four college pledges are forced to spend the night in a deserted old mansion where they get killed off one by one by the monstrous surviving members of a family massacre years earlier for trespassing on their living grounds.
Director of Photography
A collection of six short films that represent the personal obsessions and private fantasies of the filmmakers and actors involved.
Editor
A collection of six short films that represent the personal obsessions and private fantasies of the filmmakers and actors involved.
Director
A collection of six short films that represent the personal obsessions and private fantasies of the filmmakers and actors involved.
Director
Unable to sell it on the streets, Jim Battaglia decides to spend an afternoon at Los Angeles's Vista Theatre -- where the action extends from the screen to the balcony to the men's room.
Writer
13 horny, hot and super hung studs mix it up in non-stop action.
Director
Six sex fantasies comes to life from the pages of a blue boy magazine.
Producer
Six sex fantasies comes to life from the pages of a blue boy magazine.
Presenter
Six sex fantasies comes to life from the pages of a blue boy magazine.
Director
13 horny, hot and super hung studs mix it up in non-stop action.
Producer
A country boy looking for some action in Los Angeles meets a man on the outs of a relationship.
Director
A new initiate to a street gang sparks a revolt against its cruel leader.
Producer
The lives of a porno photographer and his rugged lover are disrupted when a former beau from France comes to visit the U.S.
Director
The lives of a porno photographer and his rugged lover are disrupted when a former beau from France comes to visit the U.S.
Producer
A loser who works at a bookstore is given a book of magic by a bum and changes himself into a sexy alter ego who gets to bed any man he lays his eyes on.
Director
A loser who works at a bookstore is given a book of magic by a bum and changes himself into a sexy alter ego who gets to bed any man he lays his eyes on.
Guy Hitting on Jennifer (uncredited)
This fictional account of Jennifer Welles' life shows the full spectrum of her sexual abilities.
Story
A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that she has a unique and special talent, which causes her no end of trouble.
Director
A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that she has a unique and special talent, which causes her no end of trouble.
Director
Two insatiable truckers (Gordon Grant and Nick Rodgers) deliver their loads all over Los Angeles, including enticing a bicyclist into the back of their rig for a sweaty three-way and picking up a horny hitchhiker.
Assistant Director
An actor supplements his income by earning needed cash as a hustler.
Camera Operator
An actor supplements his income by earning needed cash as a hustler.
Director
When an older man tells his younger lover that he wants to open up their relationship, the younger man decides to make up for lost time.
Editor
A narrated history of Hand-in-Hand Films, including excerpts from Left-Handed, The Night Before, The Erotic Films Of Peter de Rome, Adam & Yves, Drive, Ballet Down the Highway, Wanted: Billy the Kid, and James Bidgood's unreleased Bagdad.
Director of Photography
A narrated history of Hand-in-Hand Films, including excerpts from Left-Handed, The Night Before, The Erotic Films Of Peter de Rome, Adam & Yves, Drive, Ballet Down the Highway, Wanted: Billy the Kid, and James Bidgood's unreleased Bagdad.
Director
A narrated history of Hand-in-Hand Films, including excerpts from Left-Handed, The Night Before, The Erotic Films Of Peter de Rome, Adam & Yves, Drive, Ballet Down the Highway, Wanted: Billy the Kid, and James Bidgood's unreleased Bagdad.
Director
An early (probably softcore) film that is rarely mentioned.
Assistant Director
A comedy of manners about a crazed horny truck driver who crashes in on the budding relationship of a ballet star and young dancer.
Camera Operator
A comedy of manners about a crazed horny truck driver who crashes in on the budding relationship of a ballet star and young dancer.
Editor
A young man is forced to come out to his parents after being arrested for soliciting.
Writer
A young man is forced to come out to his parents after being arrested for soliciting.
Director
A young man is forced to come out to his parents after being arrested for soliciting.
Director
A psychiatrist takes the viewer on a trip through his 'aberrant' file.
Director
Long haired blonds (back when blonds in porn films didn't dye it!) and pool table sex.
Director
The film, narrated by "LA Plays Itself" director Fred Halstead, begins by looking at the muscle magazines and films of the late 1940s-early 1960s, then at the softcore films of the late 60s and the boundary-pushing and legal-testing which allowed these to evolve into hardcore loops and then features.
Director
Two young convicts — one straight, one gay — escape from jail chained together. Will their hate for each other turn into love?
Writer
The misadventures of Leroy, a drug dealer who tricks his customers with Spanish Fly.
Editor
The misadventures of Leroy, a drug dealer who tricks his customers with Spanish Fly.
Director
The misadventures of Leroy, a drug dealer who tricks his customers with Spanish Fly.
Director
A man searching for his brother finds that he has joined a cult of devil-worshiping gay vampires.
Director
Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to her pimp even though he beats her, one overcomes her frigidity, one gets gang raped, two join in a threesome, and one goes back to her criminal lover shortly before the police show up.
Director
A white child is orphaned in the desert by his dying parents, grows up alone, and is found by a Native American and his half breed brother, from whom he finally learns about love. The two men are outcasts from their own tribe, having rejected making love to women and enjoying only male-to-male sex.
Director
In a “male model studio,” six oddball studs are interviewed, then given Blue Movie Auditions in re: “sex movies for the homosexual market.”
Director
A study of sadomasochism in 1970s homosexual society.
Writer
A hard-core pop musical camp exposé of a young country boy led adrift by Sweet Lady Mary in Hollywood.
Director
A hard-core pop musical camp exposé of a young country boy led adrift by Sweet Lady Mary in Hollywood.
Director
Rick "Jim" Cassidy and Bob Mizer, one of the founders, and head, of the Athletic Model Guild, profile the A.M.G., its history, and how it operates. The purpose of the A.M.G. is to prepare (mostly gay) young men who meet its specifications for careers in modeling and showing themselves off as "gay-boy beefcake" (the male gay equivalent of young female models as "cheesecake"). Questions arise as to where these young men come from, how they are recruited, what it is like to work for A.M.G., and if all the young men who apply and are accepted are, indeed, gay.
Director
A psycho kidnaps young men to keep them captive and use as his own personal sex slaves.
Director
Little boy Henry Clayton Jr. survives a plane crash in the untamed Amazon jungle. However, he's discovered by a tribe of vicious savages who plan on sacrificing him. Meanwhile, Henry's father ventures into the jungle to find the missing lad before it's too late.
