Jack Hill

Jack Hill

Nascimento : 1933-01-28, Los Angeles, California, USA

História

Jack Hill (born January 28, 1933) is an U.S. film director, noted for his work in the exploitation film genre. Hill was born in Los Angeles. His mother, Mildred (née Pannill), was a music teacher and his father, Roland Everett Hill, worked as a set builder for film studios and was an architect. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Hill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Jack Hill

Filmes

Boris Karloff:  The Rest of the Story
Self - Interviewee
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, from 1931 to 1969, exploring films such as The Ghoul, The Walking Dead (1936), Charlie Chan at the Opera (1936), the Mr Wong series, The Climax (1944), Lured (1947), The Strange Door (1951), Grip of the Strangler and Corridors of Blood(1958), The Comedy of Terrors (1963), The Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968), the Mexican quartet, some of his major TV appearances (The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., Wild Wild West, I-Spy) as well as taking a deep look at his often ignored Broadway career in the 1940s and 50's. There is also much time devoted to Karloff's more personal side and his relationship with his daughter, Sara.
Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness
Self
From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of the greatest cult movies of all-time discussing the birth of the midnight movie.
That Guy Dick Miller
Himself
Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has spanned almost 200 films across six decades, featuring a diverse range of interviews with directors, co-stars, and contemporaries.
From Manila with Love
Himself
Retrospective documentary on the making of the 70's women-in-prison exploitation cult favorites "The Big Doll House" and "The Big Bird Cage".
American Grindhouse
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.
Machete Maidens Unleashed!
Himself
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind of movie they wanted, any way they pleased. It was a country with extremely lax labor regulations and a very permissive attitude towards cultural expression. As a result, it became a hotbed for the production of cheapie movies. Their history and the genre itself are detailed in this breezy, nostalgic documentary.
Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.
Self
A short documentary about the classic Universal Monster actor, Lon Chaney, Jr.
Sugar Boxx
Judge #2
Sugar State Women’s Prison. An Everglades hellhole where innocent girls are forced to slave in the swamps by day then turn tricks for the warden by night. A prison camp where corruption, brutality, and sexual abuse are all part of the daily routine. But when reporter Valerie March goes undercover inside Sugar State, that’s when the powder keg really explodes! Follow Valerie through prison life - catfights, knife fights, rape, whippings, prostitution, and the “hot box” - before she and her fellow inmates take bloody, unforgettable revenge on their captors. Inspired by the great women-in-prison films of the past, SUGAR BOXX takes everything one step further. SUGAR BOXX has it all.
Spider Stravinsky: The Cinema Sounds of Ronald Stein
Himself
The composer of ‘The Terror’ and ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman’ among others is remembered by Harlene Stein, Jack Hill, American Cinematheque’s Chris D. and others.
The Hatching of Spider Baby
Himself
Documentary focusing on Jack Hill's classic film, Spider Baby. Featured on the new Special Edition DVD.
I Pass for Human
Azami's Father
Jane's lover Dax overdoses on heroin. Wanting to kill the pain of loss, Jane does dope for the first time and is soon on the way to addiction herself. She then discovers that drug users are being haunted by the ghosts of dead addicts. Soon she's being followed by her dead boyfriend Dax as well as other thirsty spirits. Jane meets Rick, a young man with his own similar story. Rick is being tormented too...by the ghost of his overdosed girlfriend Azami, the most dangerous of the junkie vampire ghosts. Jane returns to her apartment after one night of nonstop terror. She goes into her bedroom and finds someone sleeping face down in her bed. Not getting a response, Jane turns over the body...
Hollywood Rated 'R'
Self
A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation, pre-"Deep Throat" sex tease films, Russ Meyer's bosom-heavy masterpieces, etc, etc. Over 25 interviews of the greatest purveyors of weird films of all kind from 1940 to 1975. Illustrated with dozens of films clips, trailers, extra footage, etc. This documentary as a shorter companion piece focusing on exploitation king David F. Friedman.
Sorceress
Producer
To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs away after giving birth with her twin daughters. Before dying, she hands the girls over to the warrior Krona who promises to raise them as great soldiers. Twenty years later, Traigon returns and begins hunting down his daughters once again. Will the twins, with the help of the Barbarian Erlik and the Viking Baldar, be able to defeat their father?
Sorceress
Director
To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs away after giving birth with her twin daughters. Before dying, she hands the girls over to the warrior Krona who promises to raise them as great soldiers. Twenty years later, Traigon returns and begins hunting down his daughters once again. Will the twins, with the help of the Barbarian Erlik and the Viking Baldar, be able to defeat their father?
Navio da Morte
Story
Nas tranquilas águas do mar das Caraíbas, um cruzeiro de luxo vê-se seguido por um estranho navio até conseguir uma forte colisão. Não existe escapatória para o terrível pesadelo que se forma no meio de um crescente pânico. Não existe lugar algum onde se possam esconder. Enquanto o barco se dirige para um destino desconhecido, os sobreviventes dão conta de que esse misterioso navio parece destroçar-lhes a todos de forma espantosa.
Cidade em Chamas
Writer
Depois de ser despedido da empresa onde trabalhava, homem provoca criminosamente o vazamento do estoque de óleo de uma refinaria, que escorre em direção às galerias de águas pluviais. O incêndio é inevitável e alastra-se por toda a cidade.
Faca na Garganta
Story
A tough gang of teenage girls are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go!
Faca na Garganta
Director
A tough gang of teenage girls are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outrageous high school hoodlums go where they want ... and create mayhem wherever they go!
O Balanço das Colegiais
Writer
Para escrever uma exposição sobre como a torcida rebaixa as mulheres, um repórter de um jornal da faculdade se infiltra na equipe de líderes de torcida.
O Balanço das Colegiais
Director
Para escrever uma exposição sobre como a torcida rebaixa as mulheres, um repórter de um jornal da faculdade se infiltra na equipe de líderes de torcida.
Foxy Brown
Writer
A bela e sensual Foxy Brown parte em busca de vingança após o namorado ser morto durante uma operação. Ela, então, se disfarça como garota de programa para perseguir e matar os responsáveis.
Foxy Brown
Director
A bela e sensual Foxy Brown parte em busca de vingança após o namorado ser morto durante uma operação. Ela, então, se disfarça como garota de programa para perseguir e matar os responsáveis.
Coffy: Em Busca da Vingança
Screenplay
Após perder a irmã para as drogas, a enfermeira Coffy decide fazer justiça com as próprias mãos. Ela então se passa por prostituta para se aproximar do mundo do crime e eliminar os chefes do tráfico.
Coffy: Em Busca da Vingança
Director
Após perder a irmã para as drogas, a enfermeira Coffy decide fazer justiça com as próprias mãos. Ela então se passa por prostituta para se aproximar do mundo do crime e eliminar os chefes do tráfico.
The Woman Hunt
Story
A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.
The Big Bird Cage
Writer
Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.
The Big Bird Cage
Director
Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.
Macabre Serenade
Screenplay
Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.
Macabre Serenade
Director
Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a toy maker, and his toys are imbued with murderous intentions.
The Big Doll House
Director
Female prisoners in a Phillippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women--along with the help of two men--plot an escape.
Alien Terror
Director
In the late 1800's, Boris Karloff has discovered a way to use nuclear power. He creates a beam weapon and blows up a big rock. Outer space aliens are scared and one alien who looks a lot like James Cameron with a big fake nose only this one isn't fake lands and brings other aliens who take over the bodies of Karloff and his assistant. The assistant is a Jack the Ripper style killer who has done a few nasty murders which have riled the townsfolk. The body-snatched bodies become radioactive and start killing flowers and other stuff (but don't die themselves) and some stuff happens and in the end Karloff destroys the beam weapon equipment (and his lab and house), then the aliens leave and warn us that if anyone ever does it again there will be trouble.
Isle of the Snake People
Screenplay
The inhabitants of a small, remote island have been practicing voodoo rites and worshipping an evil priest named Damballah for years, but the local law officials generally turn a blind eye to this death cult's bizarre activities. Captain Labesch arrives from the mainland, determined to crack down on the island's lawlessness and clean up the ineffectual, hard-drinking police force. He appeals for assistance from wealthy plantation tycoon Carl Van Molder, who owns nearly half of the island and wields a great deal of influence over the population. Van Molder has made the study of parapsychology his life's work and believes in the secret powers of the mind. He warns Labesch not to interfere with this forgotten island's ancient ways. Also visiting is Van Molder's niece, Annabella, a temperance crusader who wants her uncle to help fund the International Anti-Saloon League. She falls in love with handsome police lieutenant Andrew Wilhelm
Isle of the Snake People
Director
The inhabitants of a small, remote island have been practicing voodoo rites and worshipping an evil priest named Damballah for years, but the local law officials generally turn a blind eye to this death cult's bizarre activities. Captain Labesch arrives from the mainland, determined to crack down on the island's lawlessness and clean up the ineffectual, hard-drinking police force. He appeals for assistance from wealthy plantation tycoon Carl Van Molder, who owns nearly half of the island and wields a great deal of influence over the population. Van Molder has made the study of parapsychology his life's work and believes in the secret powers of the mind. He warns Labesch not to interfere with this forgotten island's ancient ways. Also visiting is Van Molder's niece, Annabella, a temperance crusader who wants her uncle to help fund the International Anti-Saloon League. She falls in love with handsome police lieutenant Andrew Wilhelm
Me, a Groupie
Writer
A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe to track him down. On the way, however, she gets mixed up with everyone from a gang of nasty bikers to a ring of devil worshipers.
Me, a Groupie
Director
A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets out with her girlfriend across Europe to track him down. On the way, however, she gets mixed up with everyone from a gang of nasty bikers to a ring of devil worshipers.
Pit Stop
Editor
Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.
Pit Stop
Writer
Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.
Pit Stop
Director
Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him sponsorship as a stock car driver. Bowman accepts and enters the demolition derby-adjacent world of "figure eight" racing. As Bowman moves up in the ranks, his regard for his friends slips-- giving way to outright obsession with becoming the best.
A Câmara do Terror
Writer
The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.
A Câmara do Terror
Director
The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.
Spider Baby
Editor
A caretaker devotes himself to three demented siblings after their father's death. But then money-hungry relatives show up to usurp their inheritance.
Spider Baby
Writer
A caretaker devotes himself to three demented siblings after their father's death. But then money-hungry relatives show up to usurp their inheritance.
Spider Baby
Director
A caretaker devotes himself to three demented siblings after their father's death. But then money-hungry relatives show up to usurp their inheritance.
Blood Bath
Producer
A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a daytime relationship with a woman who resembles a former love and is also the sister of one of his victims.
Blood Bath
Screenplay
A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a daytime relationship with a woman who resembles a former love and is also the sister of one of his victims.
Blood Bath
Director
A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a daytime relationship with a woman who resembles a former love and is also the sister of one of his victims.
Mondo Keyhole
Director of Photography
Howard Thorne is a rapist in Los Angeles: he meets women at work and at parties or he sees them walking down the street, and he follows them, terrifies them, and assaults them. He also dreams about these assaults, and he's unclear how much of what he's done is real and how much is fantasy. He ignores his heroin-using wife, Vicki, who tries everything she can think of to get his sexual attention. Howard and Vicki go separately to a costume party where she learns the full truth about his nature and where he is stalked by one of his recent victims. Individualized versions of Hell await Howard and Vicki.
Mondo Keyhole
Editor
Howard Thorne is a rapist in Los Angeles: he meets women at work and at parties or he sees them walking down the street, and he follows them, terrifies them, and assaults them. He also dreams about these assaults, and he's unclear how much of what he's done is real and how much is fantasy. He ignores his heroin-using wife, Vicki, who tries everything she can think of to get his sexual attention. Howard and Vicki go separately to a costume party where she learns the full truth about his nature and where he is stalked by one of his recent victims. Individualized versions of Hell await Howard and Vicki.
Mondo Keyhole
Writer
Howard Thorne is a rapist in Los Angeles: he meets women at work and at parties or he sees them walking down the street, and he follows them, terrifies them, and assaults them. He also dreams about these assaults, and he's unclear how much of what he's done is real and how much is fantasy. He ignores his heroin-using wife, Vicki, who tries everything she can think of to get his sexual attention. Howard and Vicki go separately to a costume party where she learns the full truth about his nature and where he is stalked by one of his recent victims. Individualized versions of Hell await Howard and Vicki.
Mondo Keyhole
Director
Howard Thorne is a rapist in Los Angeles: he meets women at work and at parties or he sees them walking down the street, and he follows them, terrifies them, and assaults them. He also dreams about these assaults, and he's unclear how much of what he's done is real and how much is fantasy. He ignores his heroin-using wife, Vicki, who tries everything she can think of to get his sexual attention. Howard and Vicki go separately to a costume party where she learns the full truth about his nature and where he is stalked by one of his recent victims. Individualized versions of Hell await Howard and Vicki.
The Raw Ones
Editor
Sun-kissed Floridians enjoy volleyball, jumping rope, trampolines, and relaxing in the sun.
The Raw Ones
Director of Photography
Sun-kissed Floridians enjoy volleyball, jumping rope, trampolines, and relaxing in the sun.
Demência 13
Writer
Quando seu marido, John, sofre um ataque cardíaco em um barco a remo no lago, Louise Haloran joga seu corpo ao mar e depois diz à família que ele partiu em uma viagem de negócios urgente. Sua principal preocupação é que ela só pode herdar uma parte da fortuna da família se o marido estiver vivo. Os haloranos são uma família estranha, ainda sofrendo com a morte da filha mais nova Kathleen, que se afogou em um lago quando era criança. Eles realizam uma cerimônia anual de lembrança todos os anos no aniversário de sua morte. Este ano, no entanto, alguém está usando um machado com intenção de matar.
Demência 13
Second Unit Director
Quando seu marido, John, sofre um ataque cardíaco em um barco a remo no lago, Louise Haloran joga seu corpo ao mar e depois diz à família que ele partiu em uma viagem de negócios urgente. Sua principal preocupação é que ela só pode herdar uma parte da fortuna da família se o marido estiver vivo. Os haloranos são uma família estranha, ainda sofrendo com a morte da filha mais nova Kathleen, que se afogou em um lago quando era criança. Eles realizam uma cerimônia anual de lembrança todos os anos no aniversário de sua morte. Este ano, no entanto, alguém está usando um machado com intenção de matar.
Sombras do Terror
Director
A young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.
Sombras do Terror
Screenplay
A young officer in Napoleon's army pursues a mysterious woman to the castle of an elderly Baron.
Os Amantes do Nudismo
Director of Photography
Em Las Vegas, Benjamin Jabowski, um mineiro nau sucedido, e John Birch, um dândi da cidade, tem um encontro inesperado antes do show burlesco no Herald Club. Eles sentam em um canto, passam a se conhecer e a beber, porém cada um deles tem seus planos para a próxima apresentação.
The Host
Director
Fugitive gangster comes to lonely spanish shelter. Has to kill evil gunman to set settlers free and bring rain. But when he decides to leave, his pony is gone and he is damned to stay or die.