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His new 3D thriller, The Hole (2009), for Bold Films recently premiered at the Venice Film Festival where it garnered the first-ever award for Best 3D Feature. Dante also produces the critically-acclaimed webisode/mobile phone series, Trailers from Hell.
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22 titles. 1. Hollywood Boulevard (1976) R | 83 min | Comedy, Thriller. 5.9. Rate. A young woman arrives in Hollywood to try her luck as an actress. An incompetent agent hooks her up with a production company which specializes in low budget B-movie fair, plagued by strange deadly accidents.
4 days ago · A trip into the uncanny, Twilight Zone: The Movie is an anthology film that revisits and reimagines four classic episodes of Rod Serling's iconic television series. Directed by a quartet of visionary filmmakers - John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, and George Miller - it weaves together tales of horror and science fiction.
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- 'Gremlins' (1984) IMDb Score: 7.3/10. Gremlins begins with a quirky inventor, Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton), bringing an unusual creature called a Mogwai to his son Billy (Zach Galligan) as a Christmas present.
- 'Matinee' (1993) IMDb Score: 6.9/10. This period comedy is set in 1962, around the Cuban missile crisis. President Kennedy's announcement that Soviet missiles were stationed in Cuba creates an atmosphere of fear and tension in Key West, Florida.
- 'The 'Burbs' (1989) IMDb Score: 6.8/10. The 'Burbs features Tom Hanks in one of his early starring roles as Ray Peterson, a suburbanite who becomes suspicious of his new neighbors, the mysterious Klopeks, after a series of strange occurrences in the neighborhood.
- 'Innerspace' (1987) IMDb Score: 6.8/10. Innerspace follows Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid), a hotshot Navy pilot who volunteers for a groundbreaking experiment in miniaturization.
Dante's output includes the films Piranha (1978), The Howling (1981), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (1987), The 'Burbs (1989), Matinee (1993), Small Soldiers (1998), and Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003).
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His favorite films are Bride of Frankenstein (1935), To Be or Not to Be (1942), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Touch of Evil (1958) and Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). He often cites The Innocents (1961) as his favorite horror film, and one of the scariest he has ever seen.
