Richard Matheson
出生 : 1926-02-20, Allendale, New Jersey, USA
死亡 : 2013-06-23
略歴
Richard Burton Matheson (February 20, 1926 – June 23, 2013) was an American author and screenwriter, primarily in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres.
He is best known as the author of I Am Legend, a 1954 science fiction horror novel that has been adapted for the screen three times, the first of which, The Last Man on Earth, was co-scripted by him and starred Vincent Price. (The other two adaptations are The Omega Man with Charlton Heston and I Am Legend with Will Smith.) Matheson also wrote 16 television episodes of The Twilight Zone, including "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" and "Steel", as well as several adaptations of Edgar Allan Poe stories for Roger Corman and American International Pictures – House of Usher, The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Terror and The Raven. He adapted his 1971 short story "Duel" as a screenplay directed by Steven Spielberg for the television film Duel that year.
In addition, to I Am Legend and Duel, nine more of his novels and short stories have been adapted as motion pictures: The Shrinking Man (filmed as The Incredible Shrinking Man), Hell House (filmed as The Legend of Hell House), What Dreams May Come, Bid Time Return (filmed as Somewhere in Time), A Stir of Echoes, Steel (filmed as Real Steel), and Button, Button (filmed as The Box). The movie Cold Sweat was based on his novel Riding the Nightmare, and Les seins de glace ("Icy Breasts") was based on his novel Someone is Bleeding. Both Steel and Button, Button had previously been episodes of The Twilight Zone.
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Writer
Six episodes of the original series, restored and on the big screen for the first time, and a special retrospective documentary encompass this Fathom Event.
Self
A fascinating quest for proof of life after death -- a true-life enigma that begins with one small, odd incident and mushrooms into a huge scientific inquiry into apparent messages from the 'Other Side.'
Story
2020年。人間のボクシングに代わり、より暴力的な「ロボット格闘技」が人気を博していた。人間のボクシングが廃れたことで、将来を有望視されていたプロボクサーのチャーリー・ケントン（ヒュー・ジャックマン）も、今では中古のロボットを使ってプロモーターとして生計を立てていた。 ある日、昔捨てた妻が亡くなったという連絡が入る。残された息子のマックス（ダコタ・ゴヨ）の養育権について、妻の姉であるデブラ（ホープ・デイヴィス）とマーヴィン（ジェームズ・レブホーン）夫妻と話し合いをすることとなるが、夫妻が金持ちであることに気づいたチャーリーは、借金を返すためにマーヴィンに10万ドルで息子を渡すと持ちかける。マーヴィンは「旅行に行く3ヶ月の間、マックスを預かってもらう」という条件付きで承諾した。 しばらくして、チャーリーのもとにマックスがやってくる。前金の5万ドルを手にしたチャーリーは以前破壊された「アンブッシュ」の代わりに、中古の「ノイジーボーイ」を購入。マックスはチャーリーの幼なじみであるベイリー（エヴァンジェリン・リリー）の元に居候することになる。金で売られたことに気づいたマックスはチャーリーを嫌っていたが、ロボットとゲーム好きな彼は無理やり試合についていく。「ミダス」との試合は最初は優勢だったが、結局負けてしまい、ノイジーボーイもスクラップになってしまう。
Self
A documentary about one of the most influential science fiction writers of the 1950s and 1960s. Charles Beaumont was responsible for penning some of the most memorable Twilight Zone episodes before his untimely death at age 38.
Original Story
ある日の朝、ノーマとアーサー夫妻の元に、赤いボタン付きの装置が入った箱が届く。夕方、謎めいた男がノーマを訪ね「このボタンを押せば100万ドルを手に入れられるが、代わりに見知らぬ誰かが死ぬ。考える猶予は24時間」と驚くべき提案を持ちかける。二人は迷いながらもボタンを押してしまう。
Screenplay
ロバート・ネビルは優れた科学者だが、彼でさえ、その恐ろしいウイルスを食い止めるすべを知らなかった。それは誰にも封じることができず、治すこともかなわず、しかも、人間が作り出したウイルスだった。なぜか免疫があったネビルは、荒れ果てたニューヨークで――あるいは世界で――ただ１人生き残っている。この３年間、彼は毎日几帳面に無線でメッセージを流し続け、必死にほかの生存者を捜してきた。だが、確かに彼は"１人"ではなかった。ウイルスに侵され、変異した人間たちが闇に潜み、彼を見つめていたのだ。ネビルを駆りたてているのは唯一残った使命、それは、彼自身の免疫のある血液を使ってウイルスの影響を改善する方法を見つけること。しかし、彼には圧倒的多数の敵が迫り、時間は刻々となくなっていく...。
Novel
In post apocalyptic LA being rampaged by zombie like cannibals humans that have some kind of genetic infection local man renchard is forced to live a daily struggle as he trys to locate radio signals and find a cure.
Short Story
Jules Walters' unhealthy obsession with vampires leads to his dismissal from school. But when he steals a bat from the local zoo, his obsession may lead to his demise.
Story
In a post apocalyptic society, seventeen year-old Peggy lives with her over-protective mother and works in the family restaurant. When two couples of punks enter the restaurant, and one takes an interest in her, Peggy makes a decision that will change her life forever.
Self
Documentary about the great 1940s horror movie producer Val Lewton, featured on the 2005 DVD release "The Val Lewton Horror Collection."
Novel
After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
Novel
事故で亡くなったクリスは、天国が輝かしく荘厳な場所だと知る。ところが彼の妻はショックから自殺し、地獄へ落ちてしまっていた……。幻想作家マシスンの原作を映画化したSFXファンタジー。
Story
Three tales of terror: in "The Graveyard Rats" lovers murder the woman's older husband and encounter horror when they attempt to rob his grave; "Bobby" is the story of a woman who summons her son back from the dead; and in "He Who Kills" an African doll goes on a murderous rampage.
Screenplay
Three tales of terror: in "The Graveyard Rats" lovers murder the woman's older husband and encounter horror when they attempt to rob his grave; "Bobby" is the story of a woman who summons her son back from the dead; and in "He Who Kills" an African doll goes on a murderous rampage.
Teleplay
James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories of the original 'The Twilight Zone' (1959) series. In "The Theater," a young woman attends a movie theater only to find that her life story is being revealed on the screen. In "Where the Dead Are," a Boston surgeon in 1868 searches for a scientist who may have the answer to a medical mystery.
Writer
Mac, the two-fisted, savvy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burnout, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning-fast deductions. But he keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
Screenplay
フロリダに海底レジャー施設がオープン。その当日、行方不明だったスタッフが無残な姿で発見される……。3Dを駆使して、よりリアルな恐怖を演出した海洋パニック映画『ジョーズ』のシリーズ第3弾。
Screenplay
かつての人気TVシリーズ「ミステリー・ゾーン」の復刻映画版。人種差別主義者の男が時空を越えて差別を体験するランディスの第1話（V・モローが撮影中に事故死）。ロブ・ボッティンのコミカルSFXが光る不思議な少年を描いたダンテの第2話。少年の日々に戻る老人を描いたスピルバーグの第3話。飛行機の翼の上に奇怪な怪物の姿を見た男の恐怖をダイナミックに描いたG・ミラー担当の第4話。
Original Story
かつての人気TVシリーズ「ミステリー・ゾーン」の復刻映画版。人種差別主義者の男が時空を越えて差別を体験するランディスの第1話（V・モローが撮影中に事故死）。ロブ・ボッティンのコミカルSFXが光る不思議な少年を描いたダンテの第2話。少年の日々に戻る老人を描いたスピルバーグの第3話。飛行機の翼の上に奇怪な怪物の姿を見た男の恐怖をダイナミックに描いたG・ミラー担当の第4話。
Novel
After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
Screenplay
古い肖像写真の美女に恋をした青年が、時空を超えて憧れの人のもとへ会いにいく姿を描くSF恋愛映画の名作。母校で初演を迎えていた新進の劇作家リチャードのもとへ現れた老婦人は、金時計を手渡すと“帰ってきて”という言葉を残し去っていく。数年後、再び母校を訪れたリチャードはその町のホテルで一枚の肖像画に心を奪われる。そこに描かれた美女エリーズは、かつての老婦人の若き日の姿だった。日増しに膨れ上がる“彼女”への想いに苦しむリチャードは、ついに時間の壁を越えエリーズと出会う……。
Novel
古い肖像写真の美女に恋をした青年が、時空を超えて憧れの人のもとへ会いにいく姿を描くSF恋愛映画の名作。母校で初演を迎えていた新進の劇作家リチャードのもとへ現れた老婦人は、金時計を手渡すと“帰ってきて”という言葉を残し去っていく。数年後、再び母校を訪れたリチャードはその町のホテルで一枚の肖像画に心を奪われる。そこに描かれた美女エリーズは、かつての老婦人の若き日の姿だった。日増しに膨れ上がる“彼女”への想いに苦しむリチャードは、ついに時間の壁を越えエリーズと出会う……。
Original Story
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
Writer
This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
Associate Producer
A houswife, tired of her everyday routine, makes changes in her hair, her wardrobe and her makeup, and begins to take on the personality of a woman who had died five years earlier.
Writer
A houswife, tired of her everyday routine, makes changes in her hair, her wardrobe and her makeup, and begins to take on the personality of a woman who had died five years earlier.
Story
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.
Screenplay
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.
Senator #3 (uncredited)
亡き父のあとを継ぎドンとなったマイケルの苦悩と復讐を、父ビトーの少年時代からやがて一大ファミリーを築くまでのエピソードを交えて描いた、名作「ゴッドファーザー」の第2作。幼いビトーが青年となり、やがてファミリーを築くまでの物語と、父のあとを継ぎドンとなったマイケルの、父がそうであった頃と全く変わってしまった時代の中でのドンとしての苦悩と復讐の物語を、巧みに交差しながら展開していく。
Teleplay
Who is the father of Ann Collins’ baby? Her husband had a vasectomy years ago. And Ann hasn’t been with another man. Even more mysterious: as the baby grows inside her, Ann begins to change. She is beset by strange illnesses, pours tablespoons of salt on her food, turns the thermostat to 50 degrees, speed-reads academic tomes. But much bigger shocks are yet to come. Barbara Eden stars in this hypnotic, swiftly paced blend of horror and sci-fi from Richard Matheson, the popular and prolific writer who also penned the novel I AM LEGEND and several notable THE TWILIGHT ZONE scripts.
Short Story
Who is the father of Ann Collins’ baby? Her husband had a vasectomy years ago. And Ann hasn’t been with another man. Even more mysterious: as the baby grows inside her, Ann begins to change. She is beset by strange illnesses, pours tablespoons of salt on her food, turns the thermostat to 50 degrees, speed-reads academic tomes. But much bigger shocks are yet to come. Barbara Eden stars in this hypnotic, swiftly paced blend of horror and sci-fi from Richard Matheson, the popular and prolific writer who also penned the novel I AM LEGEND and several notable THE TWILIGHT ZONE scripts.
Novel
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl.
Writer
Dracula is searching for a woman who looks like his long dead wife.
Teleplay
A successful public relations man's refusal to admit his alcoholism jeopardizes his career, his family and his life. ABC Movie of the Week.
Teleplay
A big-game hunter comes out of retirement to help track down a killer wolf, and begins to suspect that it isn't a wolf but an animal that can take human form.
Short Story
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
Teleplay
A married couple are traveling on a deserted desert road at night. They stop at a diner and the husband goes to the men's room. He never returns and the wife begins to suspect serious foul play.
Screenplay
リチャード・マシスンの『地獄の家』を原作に、かなりリアルな描写で心霊現象を描き通したオカルト映画の秀作。極悪非道の限りを尽くし、27人もの惨殺死体を出して姿を消してしまったべラスコの屋敷で次々と起こる奇怪な現象。物理学者と霊媒師ら4人のチームがこの館の調査に乗り出す。やがて一行を次々と襲い始めるポルターガイスト現象。若い女性霊媒師フロレンスは、霊を解放するため、べラスコの息子の霊に身を任せようとするが……。
Novel
リチャード・マシスンの『地獄の家』を原作に、かなりリアルな描写で心霊現象を描き通したオカルト映画の秀作。極悪非道の限りを尽くし、27人もの惨殺死体を出して姿を消してしまったべラスコの屋敷で次々と起こる奇怪な現象。物理学者と霊媒師ら4人のチームがこの館の調査に乗り出す。やがて一行を次々と襲い始めるポルターガイスト現象。若い女性霊媒師フロレンスは、霊を解放するため、べラスコの息子の霊に身を任せようとするが……。
Writer
After being run out of Las Vegas, reporter Carl Kolchak heads for Seattle and another reporting job with the local paper. It's not long before he is on the trail of another string of bizarre murders. It seems that every 21 years, for the past century, a killer kills a certain number of people, drains them of their blood and then disappears into the night. Kolchak is on his trail, but can he stop him?
Teleplay
Wisecracking reporter Carl Kolchak investigates a string of gruesome murders in Las Vegas. It seems that each victim has been bitten in the neck and drained of all their blood. Kolchak is sure that it is a vampire. He's hot on the trail, but nobody believes him. His editor thinks he's nuts and the police think he's a hindrance in the investigation, so Kolchak takes matters into his own hand.
Story
何の理由もなく、大型トレーラーに命を狙われる不条理サスペンス。スティーヴン・スピルバーグ監督がTVドラマ用に監督した記念すべきデビュー作で、その卓越した恐怖演出が話題となり、後に劇場公開もされた。
Screenplay
何の理由もなく、大型トレーラーに命を狙われる不条理サスペンス。スティーヴン・スピルバーグ監督がTVドラマ用に監督した記念すべきデビュー作で、その卓越した恐怖演出が話題となり、後に劇場公開もされた。
Novel
細菌兵器の使用によって荒廃した世界。自ら開発した血清によってただ一人生き残った科学者は、奇怪な亡者と化した人類と闘い続ける……。リチャード・マシスンのSF『地球最後の男（I Am Legend）』の二度目の映画化作品
Novel
監督テレンス・ヤング、主演チャールズ・ブロンソンのコンビで描くアクション・サスペンス。フランス南部の港町で静かな生活を送っていたジョー。しかし、彼には忘れがたい過去があり……。迫力のカーチェイスは見もの。
Screenplay
The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.
Screenplay
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.
Writer
In World War II, a tough sergeant is put in charge of a squad of young recruits and assigned to lead them on a mission against the Germans.
Novel
First the atomic war broke out, new machines were made, dead birds appeared. In 1999, a bacteriological warfare began, there were sandstorms and giant locust infestations; the human tissue was transformed and a new being, once legendary, now real, emerged: the vampire. Only Robert Neville, the last man on Earth, remains unpolluted, living in constant struggle with the new inhabitants of the planet.
Screenplay
A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
Screenplay
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Novel
When a disease turns all of humanity into the living dead, the last man on earth becomes a reluctant vampire hunter.
Associate Producer
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
Author
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
Screenplay
An undertaker who hasn't had any 'customers' in a long time is forced to pay one year's back-rent. To get money he starts to kill people, which brings absurd results.
Screenplay
A magician who has been turned into a raven turns to a former sorcerer for help.
Screenplay
Three stories adapted from the work of Edgar Allen Poe: 1) A man and his daughter are reunited, but the blame for the death of his wife hangs over them, unresolved. 2) A derelict challenges the local wine-tasting champion to a competition, but finds the man's attention to his wife worthy of more dramatic action. 3) A man dying and in great pain agrees to be hypnotized at the moment of death, with unexpected consequences.
Writer
A skeptical college professor discovers that his wife has been practicing magic for years. Like the learned, rational fellow he is, he forces her to destroy all her magical charms and protective devices, and stop that foolishness. He isn't put off by her insistence that his professional rivals are working magic against him, and her protections are necessary to his career and life.
Writer
White magic practitioner Amos Wilder kills himself after securing his nephew's sworn promise to guard his body against evil spirits. The nephew must never leave his uncle's mansion, to protect the shire from the return of black necromancer Bentley, cast back to Hell by Wilder.
Screenplay
Francis Barnard goes to Spain, when he hears his sister Elizabeth has died. Her husband Nicholas Medina, the son of the most brutal torturer of the Spanish Inquisition, tells him she has died of a blood disease, but Francis finds this hard to believe. After some investigating he finds out that it was extreme fear that was fatal to his sister and that she may have been buried alive!
Screenplay
A mad genius tries to bomb the world into peace.
Writer
After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
Writer
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.
Screenplay
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
Novel
A dangerous combination of radiation and insecticide causes the unfortunate Scott Carey to shrink, slowly but surely, until he is only a few inches tall. His home becomes a wilderness where he must survive everything from spiders living in the cellar to his beloved cat.
