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Juan Piquer Simón
Juan Piquer Simón (16 February, 1935 – 8 January, 2011) was a Spanish film director best known for directing two cult classic horror exploitation films, '' Pieces'' (1982) and '' Slugs: The Movie'' (1988). Career He also directed two Jules Verne-based films, ''Where Time Began'' (1976) and ''Mystery on Monster Island'' (1981), as well as '' Supersonic Man'' in 1979 (which was spoofed by RiffTrax), and '' The Pod People'' in 1983 (which was famously featured on an episode of ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''). He also directed ''Cthulhu Mansion'' and '' The Rift'', both in 1990. Legacy '' Pieces'' is one among the many cult classic horror films that have been restored and digitally remastered by Bob Murawski of Box Office Spectaculars and Grindhouse Releasing. Juan Piquer Simón owned his own independent studio in Madrid, Spain, and designed many of his own special effects sequences for his films. He also was the co-director of the Mediterranean Film Festival in Valencia, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valencia
Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area also comprising the neighbouring municipalities has a population of around 1.6 million, constituting one of the major urban areas on the European side of the Mediterranean Sea. It is located on the banks of the Turia, on the east coast of the Iberian Peninsula, at the Gulf of Valencia, north of the Albufera lagoon. Valencia was founded as a Roman colony in 138 BC. Islamic rule and acculturation ensued in the 8th century, together with the introduction of new irrigation systems and crops. Aragonese Christian conquest took place in 1238, and so the city became the capital of the Kingdom of Valencia. The city's population thrived in the 15th century, owing to trade with the rest of the Iberian Peninsula, Italian ports and other loca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grindhouse Releasing
Grindhouse Releasing is a Hollywood-based independent cult film distribution company led by film editor Bob Murawski and co-founded by Sage Stallone. Grindhouse digitally remasters, restores, and produces bonus materials and video documentaries for cult film DVDs and Blu-rays which it distributes on the CAV label.Interview with Bob Murawski. Grindhouse focuses on the distribution of rare and little-seen independent cult films. Releases have included '' The Swimmer'', a surreal drama featuring Burt Lancaster; '' The Big Gundown'', a spaghetti Western with Lee Van Cleef; and ''Corruption'', a British film starring Peter Cushing. Grindhouse was the first company to digitally remaster and restore the stylish Italian horror films from the 1970s and 1980s such as '' Cannibal Ferox'' (''Make Them Die Slowly''), Lucio Fulci's '' The Beyond'' (''...E tu vivrai nel terrore! L'aldilà''), as well as the notorious cult classic ''Cannibal Holocaust'' directed by Ruggero Deodato. The compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Film Directors
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People From Valencia
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2011 Deaths
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1935 Births
Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * January 12 – Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to successfully complete a solo flight from Hawaii to California, a distance of 2,408 miles. * January 13 – A plebiscite in the Saar (League of Nations), Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. * January 24 – The first canned beer is sold in Richmond, Virginia, United States, by Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company. February * February 6 – Parker Brothers begins selling the board game Monopoly (game), Monopoly in the United States. * February 13 – Richard Hauptmann is convicted and sentenced to death for the kidnapping and murder of Charles Lindbergh Jr. in the United States. * February 15 – The discovery and clinical development of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nacho Cerdà
Nacho Cerdà (born 1968/1969) is a Spanish people, Spanish film director and screenwriter best known for his controversial 1994 in film, 1994 short film ''Aftermath (1994 film), Aftermath''. Biography Career Shorts ''Aftermath (1994 film), Aftermath'' is the second in a trilogy of short films known as ''La Trilogia De La Muerte'' (''The Trilogy of Death''). The first film, ''Awakening'', runs for only 8 minutes. Created in 1990, it tells of a boy for whom time stops upon falling asleep in a classroom, only later realizing that he had actually died and was experiencing an Out-of-body experience, out-of-body phenomenon. The 1994 sequel, ''Aftermath'', runs at a significantly longer time of 32 minutes, which depicts defilement, mutilation, and necrophilia (see Necrophilia in popular culture for more). The 35 minute finale, ''Genesis'' (1998), shows the life of a sculptor whose artwork comes to life while he turns to stone, his work gradually consuming him. The trilogy represents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieces (film)
''Pieces'' ( es, Mil gritos tiene la noche, lit=The Night Has 1,000 Screams) is a 1982 slasher film directed by Juan Piquer Simón, written and produced by Dick Randall, and starring Christopher George, Lynda Day George, Frank Braña, Edmund Purdom, Paul L. Smith, Ian Sera, and Jack Taylor. The plot follows an unknown assailant killing female students at a college campus in Boston, who uses their body parts to make a human jigsaw puzzle. A co-production of Spain and the United States, ''Pieces'' was originally released in Spain in August 1982, and was distributed in the United States by Film Ventures International. Since its release, the film has attracted a cult following and has been a drive-in favorite. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty controversy. Plot In 1942 in Boston, Massachusetts, 10-year-old Timmy Reston is abused by his mother who compares h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Godfrey Morgan
''Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery'' (french: L'École des Robinsons, literally ''The School for Robinsons''), also published as ''School for Crusoes'', is an 1882 adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel tells of a wealthy young man, Godfrey Morgan, who, with his deportment instructor, Professor T. Artelett, embark from San Francisco, California, on a round-the-world ocean voyage. They are cast away on an uninhabited Pacific island, where they must endure a series of adversities. Later, they encounter an African slave, Carefinotu, brought to the island by cannibals. In the end, the trio manage to work together and survive on the island. The novel is a robinsonade – a play on Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel ''Robinson Crusoe''. Plot summary The narrative begins with the auction by the US Government of the fictional Spencer Island, located 460 miles off the California coast (). The island is uninhabited and there are only two bidders: William W. Kolderup, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viaje Al Centro De La Tierra
''Viaje al centro de la Tierra'' (English: ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'') is a 1977 Spanish adventure film based on the 1864 novel '' Journey to the Center of the Earth'' by Jules Verne. It has been released under the titles ''Where Time Began'' in theaters in the U.S. and ''The Fabulous Journey to the Centre of the Earth'' on TV in the U.K. It was a rare later leading role for Kenneth More. Plot A group of geologists, including Professor Otto Lidenbrock, discuss various theories on the make-up off the interior of the Earth. They decide that the only way to know for sure would be to mount an expedition to discover which theory was true. Whilst visiting a book shop, Lidenbrock (More) buys an old book, written by Arne Saknussemm, containing undisclosed, coded knowledge of the center of the Earth from a mysterious gentleman. Eager to know more, he enlists his niece Glauben and her lover Axel, a soldier. Axel is charged with keeping a diary of the journey, and often enhances ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joel Hodgson
Joel Hodgson (born February 20, 1960) is an American writer, comedian and television actor. He is best known for creating ''Mystery Science Theater 3000'' (''MST3K'') and starring in it as the character Joel Robinson. In 2007, ''MST3K'' was listed as "one of the top 100 television shows of all time" by ''Time''.. From 2007 to 2013, Hodgson was part of the "movie riffing" project '' Cinematic Titanic'' with several of his fellow MST3K alumni, performing live and producing content for DVDs and direct download. He has also served as Creative Lead for Media at Pennsylvania technology firm Cannae. Early life and career Hodgson was born on February 20, 1960 in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and later moved to Green Bay, Wisconsin. He was raised in an Evangelical Christian upbringing, and later claimed that the various shows his church would put on had a profound influence on his desire to become an entertainer. Hodgson began his career in seventh grade as a magician and ventriloquist. Joe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lung Cancer
Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from transformed, malignant cells that originate as epithelial cells, or from tissues composed of epithelial cells. Other lung cancers, such as the rare sarcomas of the lung, are generated by the malignant transformation of connective tissues (i.e. nerve, fat, muscle, bone), which arise from mesenchymal cells. Lymphomas and melanomas (from lymphoid and melanocyte cell lineages) can also rarely result in lung cancer. In time, this uncontrolled growth can metastasize (spreading beyond the lung) either by direct extension, by entering the lymphatic circulation, or via hematogenous, bloodborne spread – into nearby tissue or other, more distant parts of the body. Most cancers that originate from within the lungs, known as primary lung cancers, are carcinomas. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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