Shock Value: The Movie — How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror
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Overview
Image Archive archivist Dino Everett assembled a feature-length compilation of SCA student works from the late ’60s and ’70s. The compilation features recently uncovered and previously unseen student films by Dan O’Bannon and John Carpenter. • BLOOD BATH (1969, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon) B/W (original 16mm) 7 min. • THE DEMON (1970, written and directed by Charles Adair) B/W (original 16mm) 19 min. • GOOD MORNING DAN (1968, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon, camera by John Carpenter) Color (original 8mm) 19 min. • CAPTAIN VOYEUR (1969, written and directed by John Carpenter) B/W (original 16mm) 7 min. • BLOOD BATH (1976, written and directed by Dan O’Bannon) Red tint (original 16mm blown up to 35mm) 8 min. • JUDSON'S RELEASE (1971, written by Alec Lorimore, directed by Terence H. Winkless) (original 16mm) Color 15 min. Total program time: 80 minutes.
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Runtime
80 min
Release Date
2014-10-10
Status
Released
Original Language
English
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1.0
I Am
Her self-chosen solitude in the thick forest comes to a sudden end for Noé, when she finds the broken body of a female android. While she slowly approaches the mechanic woman, Noé’s past is revealed and brings up questions about how alike she and the android can become.
2021-08-23 | de
6.7
Spree
Seeking fulfillment, a young drifter forgoes isolation to embark on a year-long murder spree.
2015-12-31 | en
10.0
Dracula Bites the Big Apple
Dracula travels to New York for a change of scenery.
1979-04-01 | en
8.0
The Executioner
A man gets falsely accused of murdering his wife.
2021-03-12 | en
3.0
Welcome Week: A College Horror Anthology
After his four siblings mysteriously die in their first weeks of college, a paranoid freshman must put his fears aside when a masked killer picks him as her next victim.
2024-04-28 | en
6.3
The Infernal Cauldron
A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.
1903-08-01 | fr
6.7
The Horribly Slow Murderer with the Extremely Inefficient Weapon
From Richard Gale, mad maker of CRITICIZED, comes a film that will never have you looking at cutlery the same way again. Set-up as an epic-length trailer for an upcoming release, HORRIBLY SLOW... depicts a man's endless pursuit by what has got to be one of the most determined and patient murderers the screen has ever seen.
2008-09-18 | en
6.5
Haze
A man awakes to find himself trapped in a dirty, confined crawlspace. He barely has enough room to move. He also has no memory of why he's there, or why he's bleeding from a stomach wound. Apparently drugged, he occasionally 'zones out' of his surroundings as he tries to edge towards his way to freedom. But the more he explores, the more pain he has to endure, and the more frightening his predicament becomes.
2005-04-28 | ja
5.5
Coven
An alcohol/drug abuser re-examines his life until he nearly dies from an overdose. Then a friend convinces him to join a self-help group which turns out to be demonic.
1997-06-12 | en
5.1
The Nest
A doctor must remove a parasite infestation from within a patient's breast.
2013-09-02 | en
6.2
Dead Hearts
A young mortician learns that not even death can stand in the way of true love. A whimsical, gothic bedtime story filled with love, loss, taxidermy, Kung Fu, and biker werewolves.
2014-09-10 | en
6.5
Doodlebug
In his squalid apartment, a man tries to squash with his shoe an insect of some kind that is moving around the room.
1997-01-01 | en
5.9
Invocation of My Demon Brother
The shadowing forth of Our Lord Lucifer, as the Power of Darkness gather at a midnight mass. The dance of the Magus widdershins around the Swirling Spiral Force, the solar swastika, until the Bringer of Light—Lucifer—breaks through.
1969-10-10 | en
6.8
Mask of the Red Death
An animated adaptation of Poe's famous short story.
1970-07-26 | sh
5.8
Fireworks
A dissatisfied dreamer awakes, goes out in the night seeking a 'light' and is drawn through the needle's eye. A dream of a dream, he returns to bed less empty than before.
1947-12-31 | en
6.8
Coyote
A distraught squatter tries to cope with his werewolf nature through drugs and music.
2010-04-03 | en
4.9
Why Try to Escape from That Which You Know You Can't Escape From? Because You Are a Coward
A man is being haunted by a masked stranger. The only language used in the movie comes from three (inter) title cards and a few sentences of sermon-like talk in Danish. Some of the talk is modified citations from the bible and similar sources.
1970-03-26 | da
6.9
Frankenweenie
When young Victor's pet dog Sparky (who stars in Victor's home-made monster movies) is hit by a car, Victor decides to bring him back to life the only way he knows how. But when the bolt-necked "monster" wreaks havoc and terror in the hearts of Victor's neighbors, he has to convince them (and his parents) that despite his appearance, Sparky's still the good loyal friend he's always been.
1984-12-14 | en
6.9
Alma
Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter.
2009-06-24 | en
6.9
Lonesome Ghosts
On a dark and stormy night, four bored ghosts decide to have some fun by calling the Ajax Ghost Exterminators.
1937-12-24 | en