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William Malone (born 1953) is an American horror filmmaker who directed several movies such as the 1999 remake House on Haunted Hill, Scared to Death, Creature, and FeardotCom. After a brief career in makeup and costumes, he attended UCLA film school and moved on as a director thereafter.
William Malone is a horror filmmaker who directed House on Haunted Hill, Feardotcom and Masters of Horror. He also designed the mask for Michael Myers in Halloween and acted in I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
- January 1, 1
- 2 min
- Lansing, Michigan, USA
- Don Post Studios
- Scared to Death and Creature
- Dead Star and The Mirror
- Television
- House on Haunted Hill
- Feardotcom
- 2003 to Now
Malone had been crafting masks for his friends to wear since he was a teenager. When he turned 19, he moved to Los Angeles from Lansing, Michigan, with the dream of making it big…in Rock N Roll. Malone and his bandmates in The Plagueshad created their own record label and released several singles. It wasn’t until he was working at the legendary Don...
A few years later in 1979 Malone set his sights on writing and directing his first theatrical feature. In 1980 Malone released Scared to Deathon the world. In the film a Syngenor (SYNthesized GENetic ORganism) stalks its victims, looking to reproduce by drinking their spinal fluid causing an ex-detective to help the police stop it. Malone bet the h...
Giger was a Swedish artist whose surrealist gothic concepts were used primarily by heavy metal and punk musicians for album covers before his Necronom IV design earned him the attention of Ridley Scott and Dan O’Bannon. Subsequently, Giger won an Oscar for his work on Alien. After Giger published his Necronomicon, Malone developed his own concept f...
Malone spent most of his time after Creature in television while trying to get traction on Dead Star and The Mirror. He would make a few episodes of Freddy’s Nightmares, Dark Justice, HBO’s Dream On, and a strange pilot that would become a Fox TV Movie W.E.I.R.D. World. The abandoned pilot starred Dana Ashbrook, Ed O’Neill and a slew of hip young a...
I remember all my high school friends raving about how scared they were seeing House on Haunted Hill in 1999. I was 15 at the time so I had to wait and sneak a copy on DVD when it released the next year. Here was this amazing cast of Taye Diggs, Ali Larter, Bridgette Wilson, Famke Jannsen, Chris Kattan, Peter Gallagher, and Academy Award Winner Geo...
Feardotcomholds a 3% on Rotten Tomatoes and an excruciatingly low 3.4 user score on IMDB. It brought home multiple awards for Worst Movie with a general consensus of being a really incoherent film. I think its slightly misunderstood. If you look at it one-dimensionally, it’s a tech-noir tied up in a Ringu ghost story with poor pacing and not enough...
While working on Masters of Horror shortly before House on Haunted Hill, Malone wrote Parasomnia. Inspired by the works of artist Zdzislaw Beksiński, the movie was shot on the same set as House on Haunted Hill. Malone financed the film himself with the help of his friends. The movie didn’t release until 2008 and it’s Malone’s last credit to date. I...
Aug 28, 2020 · A retrospective of the sci-fi horror film Creature, directed by William Malone, who cites Alien, Forbidden Planet and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as influences. The review praises the film's production design, photography, gore and expressionist style.
William Malone is a horror filmmaker who started making his own movies and masks as a teen. He is known for creating the Michael Myers mask in \"Halloween\" and directing \"House on Haunted Hill\" and \"FeardotCom\".
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Learn about the inspirations, influences and challenges of William Malone, a true Master of Horror who directed films like Scared to Death, Creature and House on Haunted Hill. Read his answers on his style, creativity and vision in this exclusive interview.
William Malone is a director of horror and sci-fi films, such as House on Haunted Hill, Feardotcom and Scared to Death. He also designed the mask for Michael Myers in Halloween and acted as George Harrison in I Wanna Hold Your Hand.
