Richard Stanley
Nascimento : 1966-11-22, Fish Hoek, South Africa
História
Richard Stanley is a South African filmmaker, known for his work in the horror genre. He began his career making short films and music videos, and subsequently directed the feature films Hardware and Dust Devil, both of which are considered cult classics.
Self
It’s one of the most controversial, influential and groundbreaking horror satires of the 1980s. Brian Yuzna’s SOCIETY told a terrifying surreality of what the rich were doing to the poor in shocking, sexual detail. But did you know it was based on truth and took inspiration from the satanic ritual abuse carried out by the Beverly Hills elite Keith family? Or that son Woody Keith changed his name to Zeph E. Daniel and co-scripted SOCIETY to exorcise the demons from his violent youth? This is the full, appalling story of how Daniel’s autobiography became a classic chiller for the ages.
A cathartic journey that Qais, a Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker embarks on as he traces the life of H.P. Lovecraft, from woodland cemeteries in Rhode Island, to the docks of New York and on to the cobbled stoned streets of Quebec City. A documentary that proves that the truth is weirder than fiction.
Self
Com os olhos livres, coração aberto, bons amigos e um punhado de sorte, Gurcius Gewdner revisita algumas de suas aventuras dos últimos cinco anos, sobrevive ao implacável inverno russo e faz a seguinte pergunta: quão longe pode ir um filme underground brasileiro?
Self
David Gregory and Kier-La Janisse take a detailed look at the history of horror anthology films with the help of more than sixty writers, genre specialists, and members of the film industry.
Screenplay
Uma fazenda é atingida por um meteorito que pode ter consequências apocalípticas para a família que mora lá e possivelmente para o mundo.
Director
Uma fazenda é atingida por um meteorito que pode ter consequências apocalípticas para a família que mora lá e possivelmente para o mundo.
Himself
Clark Ashton Smith was a poet, fantasist, sculptor, and painter. This lyrical documentary explore's Smith's work and life as a solitary artist living in Auburn, California. It features interviews with leading scholars such as S. T. Joshi, Scott Connors, Ron Hilger, and legendary writer Harlan Ellison. Donald Sidney-Fryer is featured as a sort of tour guide to Smith's Auburn.
Self - Filmmaker
A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.
Self
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the curtain and his greatest obsession.
Writer
Kira's skin starts to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. But then she discovers that she can replace her own skin with somebody else's.
Himself
Feature-length in-depth documentary by High Rising Productions chronicling the Giallo film genre from its beginnings as early 20th century crime fiction, to its later influences on the modern slasher film genre. Featuring interviews with Dario Argento, Umberto Lenzi, Luigi Cozzi, Richard Stanley, and more.
Self
The story of the insane scandals related to the remake of “Island of Dr. Moreau” —originally a novel by H. G. Wells—, which was brought to the big screen in 1996. How director Richard Stanley spent four years developing the project just to find an abrupt end to his work while leading actor Marlon Brando pulled the strings in the shadows. Now for the first time, the living key players recount what really happened and why it all went so spectacularly wrong.
Self
O diretor Alejandro Jodorowsky discute a tentativa de realizar a adaptação do romance de ficção científica Duna, em 1975, e mostra como foi a pré-produção do ambicioso projeto que não foi concluído.
Director
Hidden deep in the south of France, practically untouched by the modern age, is a place known by many as 'the Zone'. In this space, the supernatural is an everyday reality of life. Magic is everywhere. It is reason. It is currency. It is unquestionable fact. Prepare yourself for a journey into life on the other side of the mirror. Legendary filmmaker Richard Stanley (HARDWARE, DUST DEVIL, as well as a string of stunning documentaries) has never been under spoken about his studies in mysticism and the occult. A trained anthropologist whose brain glows with secret knowledge and forgotten histories, Stanley has spent decades exploring the literal fantastic.
Screenplay
Um fantoche humano que durante uma noite vai atuar para a jovem Enola Penny. Ela vive obcecada com um teatro que acha estar abandonado. Quando arranja coragem e entra no decrépito auditório, vai descobrir seis contos de horror e bizarria.
Director
Um fantoche humano que durante uma noite vai atuar para a jovem Enola Penny. Ela vive obcecada com um teatro que acha estar abandonado. Quando arranja coragem e entra no decrépito auditório, vai descobrir seis contos de horror e bizarria.
Himself
This thirty minute documentary features interviews with Giovinazzo's key contemporaries discussing the continued impact and influence of Combat Shock twenty-five years later.
Writer
They say that in 1600s, long before the invention of photography, a scientist named Fumagalli, was obsessed with the idea of reproducing images. He discovered that by killing a victim and removing his eyeballs it was possible to reproduce on paper the last image imprinted on the person's retina. He named such tecnique "Thanatography". Today, the same kind of gruesome ritual and abominable crimes r
Spanish Rapist
Whilst making a documentary, filmmaker Holly meets the highly enigmatic and beautiful Vicki who claims she is a real-life vampire.
Director
A Warren Comics style short portraying a stranded cosmonaut on Mars.
Screenplay
Uma mulher que foi adotada quando ainda era bebê e enviada para os Estados Unidos, retorna à Rússia, sua terra natal. Ela encontra a casa na fazenda em que nasceu, e a família que nunca conheceu. Mas estranhas coisas começam a acontecer, incluindo o desaparecimento de seu guia, a manifestação de fantasmas (incluindo o dela próprio!) e o surgimento de um outro homem misterioso.
Producer
A documentary about voodoo in modern-day Haiti.
Director
A documentary about voodoo in modern-day Haiti.
Producer
A British-produced documentary about the bizarre life of Nazi SS officer Otto Rahn, focused on his search for the mystical Holy Grail of Christ.
Writer
A British-produced documentary about the bizarre life of Nazi SS officer Otto Rahn, focused on his search for the mystical Holy Grail of Christ.
Director
A British-produced documentary about the bizarre life of Nazi SS officer Otto Rahn, focused on his search for the mystical Holy Grail of Christ.
Himself
For 11 years, the FantAsia Film Festival in Montreal has been the premiere showcase in North America of fantasy, horror and action films from around the world. Every July, sold out crowds of 900 line up around the block before each screening; the festival itself lasts approximately 3 weeks. Shot during the 2 year of the festival in 1997, In the Belly of the Beast chronicles the intense struggles that five filmmakers in attendance went through to complete their films. Crew rebellions, corporate embezzlers and bankrupt studios are just a few of the memories conjured up during candid interviews, while the camera captures the latest challenge: the public acceptance - or rejection - of their films.
Melting bulldog
Em um futuro próximo, um homem (David Thewlis) em missão militar sofre um acidente no seu avião e, depois de vários dias, é resgatado por um cientista que o leva a uma remota ilha, onde um famoso geneticista (Marlon Brando), vencedor do prêmio Nobel, faz experiências com DNA e tenta criar uma raça perfeita, transformando animais selvagens em seres humanos. Porém, esta estranha mutação vai criar situações imprevisíveis.
Screenplay
Em um futuro próximo, um homem (David Thewlis) em missão militar sofre um acidente no seu avião e, depois de vários dias, é resgatado por um cientista que o leva a uma remota ilha, onde um famoso geneticista (Marlon Brando), vencedor do prêmio Nobel, faz experiências com DNA e tenta criar uma raça perfeita, transformando animais selvagens em seres humanos. Porém, esta estranha mutação vai criar situações imprevisíveis.
Writer
Cult director Richard Stanley brings Marillion's music to the screen in the 50-minute BRAVE. A teenager believed to be suicidal is discovered wandering near the Severn Bridge. Suffering from severe memory loss, she seeks information about the mysterious events that led to her condition. This work of fiction was inspired from the true story of an amnesiac woman found at the bridge.
Man in the table (uncredited)
Cult director Richard Stanley brings Marillion's music to the screen in the 50-minute BRAVE. A teenager believed to be suicidal is discovered wandering near the Severn Bridge. Suffering from severe memory loss, she seeks information about the mysterious events that led to her condition. This work of fiction was inspired from the true story of an amnesiac woman found at the bridge.
Director
Cult director Richard Stanley brings Marillion's music to the screen in the 50-minute BRAVE. A teenager believed to be suicidal is discovered wandering near the Severn Bridge. Suffering from severe memory loss, she seeks information about the mysterious events that led to her condition. This work of fiction was inspired from the true story of an amnesiac woman found at the bridge.
Writer
Hitch é um misterioso solitário que caminha pelo deserto a procura de perdidos e suicidas. Hitch é procurado pela polícia por ser suspeito da morte de uma mulher na qual seu sangue foi usado num estranho ritual. Um Shaman consultado pela polícia e um patologista investigam a morte acreditando que Hitch é um colecionador de almas, um espírito maligno que pode mudar de corpo e assumir a forma que quiser.
Transforming Dust Devil in Dream Sequence (uncredited)
Hitch é um misterioso solitário que caminha pelo deserto a procura de perdidos e suicidas. Hitch é procurado pela polícia por ser suspeito da morte de uma mulher na qual seu sangue foi usado num estranho ritual. Um Shaman consultado pela polícia e um patologista investigam a morte acreditando que Hitch é um colecionador de almas, um espírito maligno que pode mudar de corpo e assumir a forma que quiser.
Director
Hitch é um misterioso solitário que caminha pelo deserto a procura de perdidos e suicidas. Hitch é procurado pela polícia por ser suspeito da morte de uma mulher na qual seu sangue foi usado num estranho ritual. Um Shaman consultado pela polícia e um patologista investigam a morte acreditando que Hitch é um colecionador de almas, um espírito maligno que pode mudar de corpo e assumir a forma que quiser.
Writer
Num futuro pós-apocalíptico, a artista plástica Jill vive trancada em seu apartamento. Quando o namorado Mo retorna de uma missão trazendo o crânio de um robô como presente, ela resolve transformá-lo numa obra de arte. Mas o crânio cibernético tem nome e função: trata-se de Mark 13, arma secreta desenvolvida pelos militares para controlar a caótica situação do planeta. Durante a noite, Mark 13 usa seus poderes cibernéticos para se auto-reparar e cumprir uma programação diabólica: matar todos os seres humanos impiedosamente.
Talking elevator (voice) (uncredited)
Num futuro pós-apocalíptico, a artista plástica Jill vive trancada em seu apartamento. Quando o namorado Mo retorna de uma missão trazendo o crânio de um robô como presente, ela resolve transformá-lo numa obra de arte. Mas o crânio cibernético tem nome e função: trata-se de Mark 13, arma secreta desenvolvida pelos militares para controlar a caótica situação do planeta. Durante a noite, Mark 13 usa seus poderes cibernéticos para se auto-reparar e cumprir uma programação diabólica: matar todos os seres humanos impiedosamente.
Director
Num futuro pós-apocalíptico, a artista plástica Jill vive trancada em seu apartamento. Quando o namorado Mo retorna de uma missão trazendo o crânio de um robô como presente, ela resolve transformá-lo numa obra de arte. Mas o crânio cibernético tem nome e função: trata-se de Mark 13, arma secreta desenvolvida pelos militares para controlar a caótica situação do planeta. Durante a noite, Mark 13 usa seus poderes cibernéticos para se auto-reparar e cumprir uma programação diabólica: matar todos os seres humanos impiedosamente.
Director
An experimental documentary on the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.
Writer
The year 2037. Rugged soldier Max and weary sculptress Nicky try to sustain a relationship in a bleak totalitarian future plagued by war, nuclear fall-out, and overpopulation. Flashbacks show Max and Nicky's doomed romance throughout the years as things get worse and the world deteriorates all around them.
Director
The year 2037. Rugged soldier Max and weary sculptress Nicky try to sustain a relationship in a bleak totalitarian future plagued by war, nuclear fall-out, and overpopulation. Flashbacks show Max and Nicky's doomed romance throughout the years as things get worse and the world deteriorates all around them.
Clean Shaven Pretentious Filmmaker / Greasy Beggar / Green Army Gunner / 3-Eyed Mutant / Green Army Flag Bearer / Alien Vendor
The year 2037. Rugged soldier Max and weary sculptress Nicky try to sustain a relationship in a bleak totalitarian future plagued by war, nuclear fall-out, and overpopulation. Flashbacks show Max and Nicky's doomed romance throughout the years as things get worse and the world deteriorates all around them.
Writer
A disillusioned modern man is haunted by memories of a previous life as a primitive caveman who lived in a hostile past world. The caveman walks across a harsh landscape, hunts animals for food, battles savage apes, and scales a deep cliff.
Primordial Man
A disillusioned modern man is haunted by memories of a previous life as a primitive caveman who lived in a hostile past world. The caveman walks across a harsh landscape, hunts animals for food, battles savage apes, and scales a deep cliff.
Director
A disillusioned modern man is haunted by memories of a previous life as a primitive caveman who lived in a hostile past world. The caveman walks across a harsh landscape, hunts animals for food, battles savage apes, and scales a deep cliff.
Director
Second part of a short film project, where every single short film is only allowed to cost 99 Euros. This time there are not only German filmmakers, but directors from all over Europe involved...
Screenplay
Wilbur Whateley, the son of a disfigured albino mother and an unknown father, is indoctrinated into the world of the occult and the forbidden by his sorcerer grandfather. As Wilbur performs these dark rituals, and begins to mature at an alarming rate, he begins to learn of the morbid and bizarre secrets behind his conception and birth. An adaptation of the story by H.P. Lovecraft.
Writer
A noir thriller set in a near-future, post-truth environment, retelling the story of Dante's Inferno.
Director
A noir thriller set in a near-future, post-truth environment, retelling the story of Dante's Inferno.
Himself
Exploring Michael Mann's 1983 film adapted from the F. Paul Wilson novel and its impact.
Self
After the huge financial and cultural success of WOODSTOCK (1970), filmmaker and political activist Michael Wadleigh spent many years in Hollywood writing scripts that were never produced. However, WOLFEN (1981), his only other major motion picture, was. After that he would never complete another feature film again. This is the story of that film.
