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He wrote the lead for his professor. His actor father took it
Asleep in My Palm (2024) began as a student's script for his professor. His actor father, Tim Blake Nelson, took the lead.
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A Marine filmed the Iraq invasion for a book, not an audience
Severe Clear (2009) is built from a Marine's own camcorder tapes of the 2003 Iraq invasion, shot for a book, not for an audience.
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King Kong's animator worked on this London sea monster
Behemoth the Sea Monster (1958) has stop-motion effects supervised by Willis O'Brien, the animator behind King Kong.
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The 1915 silent film that popularized the word "vamp"
A Fool There Was (1915) launched the vamp craze and made Theda Bara an overnight star, though she was no vampire.
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The Sopranos creator's first screenplay was a vampire film
Grave of the Vampire (1972) was David Chase's first screenplay, a low-budget horror film about a vampire's son who hunts his father.
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This found footage horror was shot in seven days
Evil Things (2009) is a found footage horror film shot in seven days, the debut feature of writer and director Dominic Perez.
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The Evil Dead director secretly produced this zombie film
The Dead Next Door (1990) was shot on Super 8 by a teenager. Evil Dead director Sam Raimi was executive producer under a code name.
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A 1973 gay bar fire killed 32 and went unsolved
Upstairs Inferno (2015) is a documentary on the 1973 UpStairs Lounge fire in New Orleans, which killed 32 and was never solved.
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This sci-fi taxes dreams and builds its monsters from VHS tape
Strawberry Mansion (2022) was shot in 2019 on a tiny budget, with a rotting dollhouse as its mansion and creatures made of VHS tape.
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A documentary on Holocaust jokes took 23 years to make
The Last Laugh (2017) began as a paper a friend handed director Ferne Pearlstein in 1993 and premiered at Tribeca in 2016.
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The best Hitchcock film that Hitchcock never made
Charade (1963) is the romantic thriller critics call the best Hitchcock film he never made, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
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Bruce Lee's second film broke the record his first set
Fist of Fury (1972) took about HK$4.43 million in Hong Kong, beating the record Bruce Lee set a year earlier with The Big Boss.