David Hess
Nascimento : 1936-09-19, New York City, New York, USA
Morte : 2011-10-07
História
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David Alexander Hess (born September 19, 1942) is an American actor and songwriter.
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This is a solid in-depth look at the making of the movie The Naked Prey featuring interviews with David Hess, Franco Nero, Corinne Cléry as well as members of the crew. It's cool to learn that Nero put in a word for David Hess - the two actors had worked together on the TV film '21 Hours at Munich' and Nero had great things to say about the young and ambitious actor and recommended him for this film.
Himself
The gritty, kinetic, visionary cinema of Roland Klick is ripe for rediscovery. After shooting with international stars, such as Mario Adorf and Dennis Hopper, Klick celebrated international success and achieved cult status. Yet after making only six features, he disappeared from the scene in a rather mysterious way. The story of an uncompromising film maniac.
The film, released on DVD in 2014 as part of a boxset also containitng Melancholie der Engel (2009) and Reise nach Agatis (2010), deals with the everyday life of a man, Carsten , who works on the set of the 2004 Ulli Lommel film Zombie Nation. At the same time, he is planning to realize his own film, a task he finds extremely difficult.
Himself
This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema and unearths the shameless and occasionally shocking origins of this popular entertainment.
Able Whitman
Television news celebrity April Carson turns to the services of private investigator Isaac Beaumonde to seek her missing sister, a stripper known as Gigi Spot. Carson assumes a role in a horror movie in the process, eventually learning that the movie's director, Able Whitman, is not only the culprit, but that he has rendered her sister's body into props for the production.
Original Music Composer
A dark secret connects Katze and Brauth, two middle aged men. Katze has the clue that his end is near. The two friends meet again after years to share their last days in the old house where everything happened a long time ago. With three women they met on their way, the atmosphere begins to recur a second time. When Heinrich, an old artist, decides to attend after all, the friends have their last chance to renew and cut with the history and to settle an old score. In the melancholy of the near end, Katze passes again all the situations in his life. In the hour of death, he’s not alone anymore. His body is gone and his soul stays back in the same place where his destiny and fulfillment occurred.
Kajal
When a turn of the century prison reformatory is slated for demolition, a grisly discovery is made. Hidden deep underground beneath the west cell block is a sub-basement structure that has not been entered in 100 years. Inside are the skeletal remains of several brutally slain children. As a CSI team arrives at the prison, an even more disturbing discovery is made that will eventually unveil a legion of seven demons and their even more chilling origins: each demon is responsible for one of the seven deadly sins. Seven deadly sins...Seven deadly demons...Seven more deadly ways to die...
Whiplash
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Mel Navokov
Los Angeles. Quando garoto, Michael Cosnick (Vladimir Maksic) sofreu abusos de alguns membros da sua família. Nove anos depois, ele tem um emprego na Casa de Repouso St. Joseph. Ele se interessa em ler sobre o Zodíaco, um serial killer que nunca foi preso e oficialmente matou 6 pessoas, mas segundo o Zodíaco seriam 38. Na verdade se crê que o real número de mortes chegue a 55. Michael fica tão interessado no tema que escreve para Simon Vale (Ulli Lommel), o autor do livro “À Procura do Zodíaco”. Cosnick relata para Vale que, como o Zodíaco, tinha um distúrbio de personalidade, mas agora estava curado. Vale se corresponde com Cosnick e lhe manda material que não foi publicado. No entanto o interesse de Cosnick se transforma em loucura ao começar a matar como o Zodíaco, deixando uma carta na cena de um crime em que diz ser o famoso serial killer que, após 30 anos, voltou para ficar.
Aaron Singer III
A psycho cop with a weakness for killing his female arrests gets what's coming to him when a pack of zombie women rise from their graves in order to get proper revenge.
Himself
40-minute documentary on the making of Wes Craven's 1972 classic, The Last House on the Left.
John Gard / Clyde Fairfax
It's another crazy Christmas and psychotherapist Dr. Carlton Fairfax, Jr. is losing control of his patients and his sanity - then he meets one particularly mysterious patient who sees to it that he definitely continues down that road.
Maddock
A young boy witnesses his parents' murder. Later, as he grows up, he befriends a bear in the wilderness and the chief of a local Indian tribe, and he stays with the Indians, but makes an enemy of the chief's son. As he enters adulthood he sets out to find the men responsible for his parents' deaths.
Three nuclear warheads, the ultimate weapon for terror, blackmailing and mass destruction, are on their way to their final destination in North Africa. Two journalists, Tom Severin and his wife Eva, together with Sharon, weapon dealer Kaltenbach’s daughter, try to stop the deadly cargo.
Sergeant Flanagan
Model Starlet, leads a double life; at night, she becomes Sherry, a Times Square prostitute, in order to search for her brother's killer. He was a marine who had been involved in a game of hot potato with a live hand-grenade on a boat returning from Lebanon. The game had ended tragically when the grenade went off, killing three men and injuring six others, castrating one of them. Now someone is stalking New York and stabbing ex-marines to death, leaving fake hand-grenades between their legs after castrating them. Hard-boiled policeman Flanigan thinks Starlet is putting herself in too much danger, so he intentionally exposes her double identity, then poses as her to catch the real killer.
Dan
Loosely based upon Jack London's novels, this is a canine adventure set in the wilderness of the far North, amidst gold diggers, outlaws and children-in-distress.
Mercenary
Quando Harry é seqüestrado por terrorristas sul-americanos e o governo americano decide lavar as mãos, sua família contrata os serviços de um mercenário para resgatá-lo.
Robert Ritchie
Mulher morre em camping remoto do Colorado, onde vivem um casal e seu filho Ben. Quinze anos depois, recém-saído do serviço militar, Ben volta para casa de carona com grupo de jovens em viagem de férias. O grupo se hospeda no camping. E começa o horror.
Gunman #4
John Candy e Engene Levy entram no mundo da segurança privada nesta fabulosa comédia de acção. Mas, infelizmente, entram sempre na direcção errada! Quando Candy, um polícia desastrado e Levy, um advogado inepto, perdem os seus empregos, acabam por se juntar à Agência de Segurança Guard Dog. Após um treino "intensivo" em manuseamento de armas de fogo (duas horas), estão aptos para a acção. Mas nem mesmo como agentes de segurança eles conseguem actuar como deve ser e os assaltos sucedem-se à frente do seu nariz! A certa altura percebem que os roubos não são mera coincidência e que a sua empresa está em apuros com o truculento presidente do sindicato das empresas de segurança (Robert Loggia, "O Fio do Suspeito"). Desejosos de apanhar os patifes, Candy e Levy tornam-se espiões e numa louca perseguição de carros transformam um golpe de milhares de dólares num autêntico carnaval! Quando o pó finalmente assenta, Candy e Levy saem vitoriosos, como a hilariantes dupla de polícias.
Frank
A clean-cut synth artist in Germany hopes to turn his career around with the help of a washed-up, erratic, publicity-crazed American manager.
Ferret
Dr. Alec Holland, escondido nas profundezas de um pântano tenebroso, está tentando criar uma nova espécie - uma combinação de animais e plantas capazes de se adaptar e prosperar nas condições mais adversas. Infelizmente, ele torna-se sujeito de sua própria criação e se transforma. Arcane, desesperado para a fórmula, tenta capturar o Monstro do Pântano. Uma perseguição explosiva se segue até que, finalmente, termina com um confronto entre Holland e um modificado Arcane...
Alex
Dois mecânicos suburbanos de uma oficina (um deles um estuprador sádico) são convidados a uma festa numa casa da alta sociedade após consertarem o carro de um grupo de jovens playboys. Na mansão dos ricaços excêntricos, depois de serem provocados e humilhados pelos anfitriões, revelam-se dois bandidos psicóticos, que decidem tomá-los como reféns e submetê-los a uma noite de tortura física e psicológica.
Director
A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume.
Adam Konitz
Jovem casal italiano, cansados da rotina, decide fazer uma longa viagem pelo deserto da Califórnia. No caminho, os dois ajudam um homem na estrada e, sem saber, envolvem-se com um fugitivo, desesperado para atravessar a fronteira com o México.
A dramatization of the incident in 1972 when Arab terrorists broke into the Olympic compound in Munich and murdered 11 Israeli athletes.
Sando, Hit Man
A Swiss bank discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president contacts David Christopher, a former agent with the U.S. Treasury, to help discover who the blackmailer is and to foil his plot. As Christopher delves into the mystery, he uncovers a complicated web of intrigue, car chases, and shoot-outs that takes all of his wits to unravel.
Sleeve
Potato Fritz (Hardy Kruger) and his friends have moved from Germany to the American Wild West, settling eventually in the Rockies. They are besieged by what appear to them to be hostile Native Americans. Before too long, it becomes clear that the hostiles are in fact a gang of gold thieves. This movie is notable among German-made Westerns for its use of authentic period costumes and firearms.
Original Music Composer
Duas garotas vão assistir a show de rock e no caminho são atacadas por um bando de fugitivos. A vingança será orquestrada pelos pais de uma delas.
Krug Stillo
Duas garotas vão assistir a show de rock e no caminho são atacadas por um bando de fugitivos. A vingança será orquestrada pelos pais de uma delas.