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Witchboard
''Witchboard'' is a 1986 American supernatural horror film written and directed by Kevin Tenney in his directorial debut, and starring Tawny Kitaen, Stephen Nichols, and Todd Allen. The plot centers on a college student who becomes entranced into using her friend's Ouija board alone after it was accidentally left behind at her party, resulting in her becoming terrorized by a malevolent spirit. Tenney wrote the screenplay while a student at the University of Southern California, inspired after attending a party in which a friend brought a Ouija board for partygoers to use. The film focuses on the notion of "progressive entrapment," the process by which a malevolent entity or demon takes control of a human being, a theme that was also touched on in ''The Exorcist'' (1973) after a character dabbles with a Ouija board. Filming took place in 1985 in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, and San Francisco. Cinema Group gave ''Witchboard'' a limited theatrical release in the United States on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Tenney
Kevin S. Tenney (born October 16, 1955) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter, best known for directing horror movies such as ''Witchboard'' (1986), and '' Night of the Demons'' (1988). Night of the Demons 3, which he also wrote. Biography Tenney was born at the Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, Hawaii, where his father was stationed in the United States Air Force. He was primarily raised in Fairfield, California, where he graduated from Fairfield High School in 1973. He later studied filmmaking at the University of Southern California, but dropped out in his senior year when he began filming his feature debut, ''Witchboard'' (1987). Filmography *''Witchboard'' (1986) *'' Night of the Demons'' (1988) *'' Witchtrap'' (1989) *'' The Cellar'' (1989) *''Peacemaker'' (1990) *'' Witchboard 2: The Devil's Doorway'' (1993) *''Pinocchio's Revenge'' (1996) *''Demolition University'' (1997) *'' Arrival II'' / ''The Second Arrival'' (1998) *''Tick Tock'' (2000) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Wilhoite
Kathleen Wilhoite (born June 29, 1964) is an American actress and musician. She made her feature film debut in ''Private School'' (1983) before having a leading role in '' Murphy's Law'' (1986), followed by supporting parts in ''Witchboard'' (also 1986), '' Crossing Delancey'' (1988), '' Road House'' (1989), and ''Lorenzo's Oil'' (1992). She also had notable guest-starring roles on several series during this time, including ''Twin Peaks'' (1990). Beginning in 1994, Wilhoite appeared as Chloe Lewis in a recurring guest-starring role on the series '' ER'', and voiced the role of the titular character on the ABC animated series '' Pepper Ann'' (1997–2000). Other notable film roles during the 1990s include the science fiction thriller ''Fire in the Sky'' (1993), and the survival film ''The Edge'' (1997). In 2003, she was cast in a recurring role as Liz Danes on ''Gilmore Girls'', and has subsequently had guest-starring roles on ''Criminal Minds'' (2008), ''Grey's Anatomy'' (2009) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tawny Kitaen
Julie Ellen "Tawny" Kitaen (August 5, 1961 – May 7, 2021) was an American actress, model, and media personality. She began her career as a television actress, appearing in the television films '' Malibu'' (1983) and ''California Girls'' (1985). She also starred in the comedies ''The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik-Yak'' and ''Bachelor Party'' (both 1984), and the horror film '' Witchboard'' (1986). Kitaen garnered widespread recognition for her appearances in a number of heavy metal music videos, including Ratt's "Back for More" (1984) and Whitesnake's " Still of the Night", "Is This Love" and "Here I Go Again" (all 1987). In the 2000s, Kitaen transitioned into appearing on reality television series, including ''The Surreal Life'' (2006) and ''Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew'' (2008), the latter of which documented Kitaen's issues with substance abuse. Early life She was born Julie Kitaen in San Diego, California in 1961, the eldest of three children born to Linda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Nichols
Stephen Earl Nichols (born February 19, 1951) is an American actor, recognized for his roles on American daytime soap operas. He has portrayed the beloved role of Steve Johnson on NBC's ''Days of Our Lives'' on and off since 1985. In 1996, he joined the cast of ABC's ''General Hospital'' as Stefan Cassadine; he exited the role in 2003. From 2009 to 2013, he portrayed the role of Tucker McCall on ''The Young and the Restless''. Career After turning down an art scholarship to Ohio State University, he traveled west, studied yoga and lived as a monk while preparing vegetarian meals for the monks and nuns in a Hollywood ashram. After three years of celibacy, a steady diet of ice cream and the films of Truffaut and Bergman, he landed at the Theater Academy of Los Angeles City College where he studied for two years. Nichols went on to study with Stella Adler, Jack Colvin and Harry Mastrorgeorge. For his stage work, Nichols has been honored with three Drama-Logue Awards and two LA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burke Byrnes
Burke Byrnes (born December 9, 1937) is an American actor, best known as the voice for Daddy Topps in '' The Land Before Time''. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1969 to 1994. Filmography References External links * 1937 births Living people American male film actors Male actors from New York (state) People from Oceanside, New York American male voice actors {{US-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rose Marie
Rose Marie (born Rose Marie Mazzetta; August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017) was an American actress, singer, comedian, and vaudeville performer with a career ultimately spanning nine decades, which included film, radio, records, theater, night clubs and television. As a child performer during the years just after the silent film era, she had a successful singing career under the stage name Baby Rose Marie. Rose Marie was widely known for her role on the CBS situation comedy ''The Dick Van Dyke Show'' (1961–1966), as television comedy writer Sally Rogers, "who went toe-to-toe in a man’s world". Later, she portrayed Myrna Gibbons on ''The Doris Day Show'' and was a featured celebrity on ''The Hollywood Squares'' for 14 years. She is the subject of a 2017 documentary film, ''Wait for Your Laugh'', which includes interviews with her and her co-stars including Carl Reiner, Dick Van Dyke, Peter Marshall, and Tim Conway. Early life Rose Marie was born Rose Marie Mazzetta in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ouija Board
The ouija ( , ), also known as a spirit board or talking board, is a flat board marked with the letters of the Latin alphabet, the numbers 0–9, the words "yes", "no", occasionally "hello" and "goodbye", along with various symbols and graphics. It uses a planchette (small heart-shaped piece of wood or plastic) as a movable indicator to spell out messages during a séance. Participants place their fingers on the planchette, and it is moved about the board to spell out words. "Ouija" is a trademark of Hasbro, but is often used generically to refer to any talking board. Spiritualists in the United States believed that the dead were able to contact the living and reportedly used a talking board very similar to a modern Ouija board at their camps in the U.S. state of Ohio in 1886 to ostensibly enable faster communication with spirits. Following its commercial introduction by businessman Elijah Bond on 1 July 1890, the Ouija board was regarded as an innocent parlor game unrelate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Devil's Doorway
''The Devil's Doorway'' is a 2018 Irish found footage horror film directed by Aislinn Clarke. Synopsis In the early 1960s, two Irish Catholic priests, Father Riley and Father Thornton, are sent to investigate an alleged miracle reported at a Magdalene Asylum run by an order of nuns. However, the priests soon discover something horrible and sinister about the place. The concept of the film is that Father Thornton, as part of his work for the Vatican, recorded his investigation with his camera to document both the review process and the possible evidence, and the film we see is simply the footage shot by him, which has been hidden in the Holy See until now. Plot In October 1960, a Vatican bishop, having received a letter and two photographs, instructed two priests to visit a Magdalene Asylum in Ireland, where a statue of the Virgin Mary is said to be bleeding from the eyes in the chapel. Of the two priests, Father Thomas Riley is the older, and is disillusioned in his work as a mir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol J
Carol may refer to: People with the name * Carol (given name) * Henri Carol (1910–1984), French composer and organist * Martine Carol (1920–1967), French film actress *Sue Carol (1906–1982), American actress and talent agent, wife of actor Alan Ladd Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Carol (music), a festive or religious song; historically also a dance ** Christmas carol, a song sung during Christmas * ''Carol'' (Carol Banawa album) (1997) * ''Carol'' (Chara album) (2009) * "Carol" (Chuck Berry song), a rock 'n roll song written and recorded by Chuck Berry in 1958 * Carol, a Japanese rock band that Eikichi Yazawa once belonged to *"The Carol", a song by Loona from ''HaSeul'' Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * ''Carol'' (anime), an anime OVA featuring character designs by Yun Kouga * ''Carol'', the title of a 1952 novel by Patricia Highsmith better known as '' The Price of Salt'' * ''Carol'' (film), a 2015 British-American film starring Cate Blanchett ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Men, Women, And Chainsaws
''Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film'' is a non-fiction book by American academic Carol J. Clover, published in 1992. The book is a cultural critique and investigation of gender in slasher films and the appeal of horror film, horror cinema, in particular the slasher film, slasher, occult, and rape and revenge films, rape-revenge genres, from a feminist film theory, feminist perspective. Although these films seem to offer sadistic pleasure to their viewers, Clover argues that these films are designed to align spectators not with the male tormentor, but with the female victim—the "final girl"—who finally defeats her oppressor. The book was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction, Best Non-Fiction in 1992. References External links * * 1992 non-fiction books American non-fiction books Books about film English-language books Princeton University Press books Gender in horror film Non-fiction books about horro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drywall
Drywall (also called plasterboard, dry lining, wallboard, sheet rock, gypsum board, buster board, custard board, and gypsum panel) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (gypsum), with or without additives, typically extruded between thick sheets of facer and backer paper, used in the construction of interior walls and ceilings. The plaster is mixed with fiber (typically paper, glass wool, or a combination of these materials); plasticizer, foaming agent; and additives that can reduce mildew, flammability, and water absorption. In the middle of the 20th century, drywall construction became prevalent in North America as a time- and labor-saving alternative to lath and plaster. History The first plasterboard plant in the UK was opened in 1888 in Rochester, Kent. Sackett Board was invented in 1894 by Augustine Sackett and Fred Kane, graduates of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. It was made by layering plaster within four plies of wool felt paper. Sheets were thick w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Possession
''The Possession'' is a 2012 American supernatural horror film directed by Ole Bornedal and produced by Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert, and J. R. Young, and written by Juliet Snowden and Stiles White. It stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Kyra Sedgwick, Natasha Calis, Grant Show, Madison Davenport, and Matisyahu. The film was shot in 2011. Parts of the film were filmed at a former mental institution, Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam, British Columbia. The story is based on the allegedly haunted dybbuk box. Bornedal cited films like ''The Exorcist'' as an inspiration, praising their subtlety. It was released in the US on August 31, 2012, with the film premiering at the Film4 FrightFest and received mixed reviews from film critics. Plot A middle-aged woman stands in her living room looking at an old wooden box with Hebrew writing on it as it whispers and hums a Polish phrase saying "Zjem twoje serce" which means "I will eat your heart" (The box comes from interwar Poland). The woman prepares t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
