House on Haunted Hill
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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. Director: House on Haunted Hill. Born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, William Malone was inspired by films during weekly trips to the Lucian Theater to see the latest releases of horror films. By age 14 he was making home movies with an 8mm camera and designing monster masks for himself and friends to wear for Halloween.
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- Lansing, Michigan, USA
William Malone. Director: House on Haunted Hill. Born and raised in Lansing, Michigan, William Malone was inspired by films during weekly trips to the Lucian Theater to see the latest releases of horror films. By age 14 he was making home movies with an 8mm camera and designing monster masks for himself and friends to wear for Halloween. Malone moved to Los Angeles at age 19 to become a rock ...
- 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...
Feb 23, 2021 · William Malone Forbidden Planet Brooke/Emily/Justin B TVSOFeb 23, 2021. Director William Malone on his '70s Night Stalker spoof, working with Klaus Kinski, being a Beatle and his crazy expressionist dream film PARASOMNIA (2008). TV STORE ONLINE: Do you sit down and talk with people that say they are fans of your first film NIGHT TURKEY (1972 ...
Director William Malone first became interested in filmmaking as a young teen fascinated with horror movies. He began making his own horror films with an 8mm camera when he was just 14 years old ...
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. Malone speaking at an event in 2016. After a brief career in makeup and costumes, he attended UCLA film school and moved on as a director thereafter.
