Ambrose Bierce
Nacimiento : 1842-06-24, Meigs County, Ohio, USA
Muerte : 1916-01-01
Historia
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American journalist and writer whose aftermath became a imaginative and fictive legacy. He mysteriously disappeared in the winter of 1913 in northern Mexico. His remaining were never found and he was declared dead in 1916.
Story
A man is killed by a mysterious creature while out hunting.
Writer
The film is based on the well-known short story 'Oil of Dog'. The rough and simple chalk animation technique is match for the absurd and surrealistic style of the story. The line-drawing character representation over a black background is in the flavour of film noir. This is the story of Boffer Bings, who lives in a village where his father manages a prosperous business producing dog-oil. Boffer Bings not only assists his father in procuring dogs for distill, but also helps to carry away the debris of his mother's studio, where she disposes of unwelcome babes. Martin is accomplished in his jobs, until his accidental invention steers the family business into an economic boom. Tragedy is inevitable.
Short Story
Años 80. Durante la fiesta de cumpleaños del pequeño Kevin, su padre (Brent Stait), al ver una mancha oscura en el techo, enloquece y asesina a su esposa (Georgia Craig). También intenta asesinar al niño, pero una misteriosa fuerza acaba antes con él. Veinte años después, Kevin (Sean Patrick Flanery) es el sheriff de la ciudad y trata de rehacer su matrimonio con Charity (Carter) con quien tiene un hijo de corta edad. En vísperas del aniversario de la muerte de sus padres, una serie de extrañas muertes hace temer a Kevin que se repita el episodio de su niñez. Primer capítulo de la segunda temporada de Masters of Horror.
Writer
Legendary writer Ambrose Bierce was known to be brilliant, cantankerous and romantic in all his life's passions, and was revered as one of the top storytellers of the late 19th Century. In 1890, he presented his recently published collection of Civil War Stories to novelist Gertrude Atherton and fledgling young publisher William Randolph Hearst during an infamous meeting in Sonol, California. This meeting sets the forum for the presentation of three of Bierce's most popular stories including "One Kind Of Officer", "Story Of A Conscience" and "An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge." This acclaimed collection features epic battle sequences, deeply conflicted drama and the signature "surprise endings" that characterized most of the short stories by Ambrose Bierce.
Novel
It is the War Between the States and Peyton Farquhar stands at the end of a plank a noose around his neck. He has been betrayed by a stranger, a scout for the Union Army, and now he faces death. He stands to lose a beautiful young wife, family and home. The soldiers make preparations for his death, it is routine for them. Peyton's mind races, he must escape. If only he can free his hands. The plank falls and incomprehensibly the rope breaks. He manages to swim away and evade the gunshots from the soldiers. He unbelievably finds himself on shore running towards home. After what seems like days of weary travel he arrives.
Original Story
In the 18th century in a forgotten town, young Benedicta is the executioner's daughter. Monk Ambrosius, newly arrived at the village, pities the girl but his interest in her unleashes the jealousy of Rochus and the conflict between passion and celibacy begins.
Short Story
A crusty Old West hermit relates the story of the eerie experiences of a Midwestern pioneer family whose home was invaded by a mysterious panther. But in the years that follow, an unnatural curse haunts the family's beautiful daughter Irene, who finds herself answering the call of primordial, inhuman instincts.
Original Story
Clare's father was a producer of dogoil, a medicine extracted from dead dogs, which is supposed to cure all ailments. Her mother had a studio where ladies in need had a certain operation made. As an old lady, Calre visits her father's factory which has been shut down long ago. There Clare thinks about her childhood.
Story
An adaptation of the short story by Ambrose Bierce, follows the grim fortunes of a rebel sniper who becomes trapped in the rubble of a bombed-out house.
Story
Doctor who lived at the edge of a swamp was found murdered with his neck slaughtered. Investigator, together with a jury made up of local farmers, comes into the doctor's cabin and tries to discover the cause of his death. The two sources may be of any help: a diary of the doctor, and the testimony of a journalist, the doctor's friend, who was with him at the moment of death. Based on the Ambrose Bierce novel with the same name.
Writer
The film depicts the lives of veterans of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution in the American Civil War, based in part on an Ambrose Bierce story. The whole film was re-edited using his own method called "light editing" in order to make it resemble a damaged silent film from the late 1800s.
Story
Stephen Royds arrives at an old house announcing that he intends to buy the property, much to the surprise of its solitary occupant, caretaker Mrs Parks. The house has been all but abandoned since its previous owner, Gerald Harboys had been committed to an asylum for the apparent murder of his wife Muriel on their wedding night. Harboys had been obsessive about the physical perfection of women and, discovering that Muriel had had her right middle toe amputated as a child, had murdered her. But her ghost is said to still haunt the old house.
Writer
A young man visits the house of a snake collector...horror ensues
Story
Drama psicológico ambientado en una cabaña situada dentro de un bosque y habitada por Anna, que sufre de neurosis y manía persecutoria, y su marido, impotente ante la enfermedad de su esposa.
Original Concept
A Southern soldier in the American Civil War is sent to reconnoiter the enemy positions and becomes trapped beneath a huge pile of rubble by Northern cannon fire. His loaded gun is left pointing precariously at him and he is faced with imminent death.
Writer
Animated short film based on Ambrose Bierce's acerbic New Year's story.
Story
This Civil War anthology adapts three Ambrose Bierce stories "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," "Chickamauga" and "The Mockingbird."
Story
A civil war soldier is lost in the woods when he shoots what he thinks is his enemy.
Story
Chickamauga (1962) is another of Robert Enrico’s three short films based on the Civil War stories of Ambrose Bierce. The withdrawal of hope at the end of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge may seem bleak but that story is positively cheerful beside the horrors of Chickamauga in which a small deaf boy wanders from home to find a new playground in the aftermath of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War.
Story
Un espía del bando confederado de la Guerra de Secesión americana vive sus últimos momentos antes de ser conducido ante la horca.
Story
An adaptation of the “An Incident at Owl Creek Bridge” by Ambrose Bierce.
Story
A condemned man manages to avoid being hanged from a bridge over a river when the rope breaks, so that he falls and sinks into the water…