John Penney

Filmes

Virus of the Dead
Director
What happens when an uncontrollable virus turns the living into the living dead?
Sombras do Além
Writer
Depois de um acidente de carro, na Tailândia, que o deixou em coma e matou sua esposa e filho, Jeff (Cary Elwes, Jogos Mortais) desperta e descobre que é capaz de ver os fantasmas de pessoas que tiveram mortes horríveis. Buscando paz de espírito, Jeff vai a um consultor espiritual (William Hurt, Marcas da Violência), que explica que esses espíritos estão aprisionados em um mundo de sombras, forçados a reviver suas próprias mortes por toda a eternidade... e que a família de Jeff teve o mesmo destino. Para poder salvá-los, ele tem que entrar no mundo das sombras e libertar suas almas, sem se perder com seus próprios demônios interiores. Assustador, tenso e arrepiante, Sombras do Além é uma inesquecível jornada ao outro lado.
Sombras do Além
Director
Depois de um acidente de carro, na Tailândia, que o deixou em coma e matou sua esposa e filho, Jeff (Cary Elwes, Jogos Mortais) desperta e descobre que é capaz de ver os fantasmas de pessoas que tiveram mortes horríveis. Buscando paz de espírito, Jeff vai a um consultor espiritual (William Hurt, Marcas da Violência), que explica que esses espíritos estão aprisionados em um mundo de sombras, forçados a reviver suas próprias mortes por toda a eternidade... e que a família de Jeff teve o mesmo destino. Para poder salvá-los, ele tem que entrar no mundo das sombras e libertar suas almas, sem se perder com seus próprios demônios interiores. Assustador, tenso e arrepiante, Sombras do Além é uma inesquecível jornada ao outro lado.
More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead
Himself
Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic "The Return of the Living Dead."
Anfíbio – A Criatura das Profundezas
Screenplay
Marine biologist Skylar Shane hires an expat charter boat captain, Jack Bowman, to help her find prehistoric life form samples in the north Sumatran Sea. During the expedition, they run into some of Jack's 'friends', a gang of smugglers headquartered on a fishing platform in the middle of the sea. Tamal, an orphan sold into servitude on the fishing platform by his uncle, a 'Dukun' (sorcerer and master of black magic) shaman, begs Skylar to take him away. She empathizes with the boy, who reminds her of her lost daughter, Rebecca, and is determined to help him, not knowing what lurks beneath the dark inky water, waiting to surface. Ever since Tamal arrived, mysterious things begin to happen, until one by one the smugglers will be killed by the terrifying creature from the deep. In the middle of an eerie, violent storm, the animus inside Tamal grows stronger, calling for the ancient creature of his nightmares...
Magic
Screenplay
"Magic" the dog is an angel sent to heal a broken family. Brad is a lawyer, doing the best he can to raise his daughter Kayla without the wife he misses. Kayla is longing for her mother, who died seven years before. Sarah is a medical research scientist who has had an epiphany caused by Magic the dog. As Magic escapes the research lab where he is a subject, and he is pursued by Dr. Ortero and the laboratory's entire security force, he fulfills his angelic role as the catalyst that helps Brad, Kayla and Sarah discover their love for each other. —Executive Producer
Zyzzyx Road
Producer
A married man (Leo Grillo) meets a beautiful woman (Katherine Heigl) in a Las Vegas casino and allows her to seduce him. When her jealous boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) finds them together, a scuffle results in the boyfriend's death. The lovers head to the desert to bury the corpse, but it disappears.
Zyzzyx Road
Writer
A married man (Leo Grillo) meets a beautiful woman (Katherine Heigl) in a Las Vegas casino and allows her to seduce him. When her jealous boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) finds them together, a scuffle results in the boyfriend's death. The lovers head to the desert to bury the corpse, but it disappears.
Zyzzyx Road
Director
A married man (Leo Grillo) meets a beautiful woman (Katherine Heigl) in a Las Vegas casino and allows her to seduce him. When her jealous boyfriend (Tom Sizemore) finds them together, a scuffle results in the boyfriend's death. The lovers head to the desert to bury the corpse, but it disappears.
In Pursuit
Writer
An attorney is accused of murdering a powerful man after having an affair with his sultry wife.
The Enemy
Screenplay
A CIA agent and a geneticist battle to keep a deadly biological weapon from falling into the wrong hands when the weapon's inventor is kidnapped.
Contaminated Man
Writer
In this science fiction thriller, David Whitman (William Hurt) is a chemist who lost his wife and child in a freak accident and is trying to rebuild his life on his own. While doing research, Whitman discovers a series of mysterious deaths that seem to follow in the path of Joseph Mueller (Peter Weller), a seemingly ordinary man who works as a security guard. Unknown to Mueller, his body carries a strange contaminant that's deadly to many people, and Whitman is desperate to find Mueller and stop him before he can cause more deaths.
Perfect Assassins
Writer
When deadly terrorists strike, an FBI man, who is an expert on terrorist mentality, hunts their twisted "creator," who may be connected with a disgraced professor from his past.
Matter of Trust
Co-Producer
Michael D'Angelo is a washed-up alcoholic cop. Demoted from his job and living in the past, he takes out his pain by exploring the nightlife of Los Angeles. Theresa, the only woman he's ever loved, is a powerful Assistant D.A. married to a prominent doctor, Peter, and is about to take on the most important case of her firm's history. But all things erupt when personal issues that have been repressed begin to surface in horrifying ways, bringing everyone together in an explosive triangle of betrayal.
Matter of Trust
Writer
Michael D'Angelo is a washed-up alcoholic cop. Demoted from his job and living in the past, he takes out his pain by exploring the nightlife of Los Angeles. Theresa, the only woman he's ever loved, is a powerful Assistant D.A. married to a prominent doctor, Peter, and is about to take on the most important case of her firm's history. But all things erupt when personal issues that have been repressed begin to surface in horrifying ways, bringing everyone together in an explosive triangle of betrayal.
Bram Stoker's Legend of the Mummy
Adaptation
Louis Gossett Jr., Richard Karn, and Amy Locane star in this supernatural horror tale about a mummy with a heart that bears a power beyond that of our world. When the mummy attacks archaeologist Dr. Trelawny, his colleagues have to trace the source of the ghoul's power and find a way to stop it.
Past Perfect
Writer
In this Seattle-set police thriller, a police detective tries to bring a band of adolescent arms dealers to justice. He manages to capture one, but he is under-age and cannot be prosecuted as an adult. Meanwhile someone is quietly slaughtering the youth's gang mates, leaving the police detective to try to save him from the same fate.
A Volta dos Mortos Vivos 3
Associate Producer
Curt (J. Trevor Edmond) e sua namorada Julie (Melinda Clarke) descobrem que a base militar da região está fazendo uma experiência secreta com o gás Trioxin, o mesmo que trouxe os mortos à vida nos filmes anteriores. Quem coordena a pesquisa é o pai de Curt, e a intenção é usar o gás como arma de guerra para que os zumbis devorem os inimigos. Curt, revoltado por não querer acompanhar o pai na sua transferência para a cidade de Oklahoma, resolve fugir com Julie. Na fuga eles sofrem um acidente, e Julie morre. Curt desesperado a leva para a base militar para ressuscitá-la com o gás, e ela se torna uma zumbi faminta por carne humana. Ainda assim, Curt quer mantê-la viva e precisa fugir do exército, que quer capturar a garota, e de uma gangue de latinos com a qual se encrencou.
A Volta dos Mortos Vivos 3
Writer
Curt (J. Trevor Edmond) e sua namorada Julie (Melinda Clarke) descobrem que a base militar da região está fazendo uma experiência secreta com o gás Trioxin, o mesmo que trouxe os mortos à vida nos filmes anteriores. Quem coordena a pesquisa é o pai de Curt, e a intenção é usar o gás como arma de guerra para que os zumbis devorem os inimigos. Curt, revoltado por não querer acompanhar o pai na sua transferência para a cidade de Oklahoma, resolve fugir com Julie. Na fuga eles sofrem um acidente, e Julie morre. Curt desesperado a leva para a base militar para ressuscitá-la com o gás, e ela se torna uma zumbi faminta por carne humana. Ainda assim, Curt quer mantê-la viva e precisa fugir do exército, que quer capturar a garota, e de uma gangue de latinos com a qual se encrencou.
The Kindred
Editor
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
The Kindred
Writer
Amanda's deathbed request to her son, John, was for him to destroy all the lab notes etc. from her last experiment. She also blurts out he had a brother. At the funeral John meets Melissa, who claims to be his mother's biggest fan. Together with some of John's friends they go to Amanda's house, but none are prepared for what they find there.
A Coisa
Additional Editor
David Rutherford (Michael Moriarty) é um espião industrial que foi contratado por executivos da concorrência para descobrir a receita de um produto chamado "Coisa", um iogurte com marshmallow que é um tremendo sucesso comercial. De alguma forma, os consumidores parecem estar viciados no produto, o que faz com que os demais fabricantes queiram a fórmula a qualquer custo. Com a ajuda de Nicole (Andrea Marcovicci), a designer responsável pela campanha de divulgação da "Coisa" e de Jason (Scott Bloom), um garoto que se recusa a comê-la, apesar de toda a família adorar o produto, David tenta provar que a "Coisa" na verdade é um ser extraterrestre, que deseja se apossar da mente dos humanos para dominar o planeta.
A Volta dos Mortos Vivos
Assistant Editor
Dois empregados de um armazém de medicamentos encontram no subsolo do estabelecimento barris do exército, lacrados e acidentalmente liberam um gás mortal no ar. Esse gás acaba re-animando os Mortos de um cemitério próximo, que vão querer apenas uma coisa dos vivos: seus miolos.
The Power
Story
A man comes into possession of an ancient Aztec doll. However, the doll is possessed by an evil spirit, which takes over his body.