Country: USA
Year: 2005
Duration: 60'
Based on
Richard Matheson's
celebrated short story, Dance of the
Dead depicts a post-apocalyptic dystopia wherein
reanimated corpses of former friends and enemies dance on stage for the
entertainment of the few who survived a nuclear holocaust.
Naïve and wholesome,
Peggy embarks on her first double date with a slick upperclassman. Her
nervous
fits of laughter quickly turn to panicked screams as she learns the
truth of
the dangerous world outside her mother's protective cloister,
and the
sacrifices that were made in order to guarantee her survival.
"Dance of the
Dead is a dark vicious ride over the
decaying landscape of a post World War III civilization, a truly
macabre and
terrifying place where the horror has become a necessari part of
life." (T.
Hooper)
"Dance of the
Dead is sheer, lurid anarchy;
nightmare bebop that fuses humor, amoralism and trauma. It's
one of my father's
finest stories." (R.C. Matheson
Biography
film director
Tobe Hooper
Tobe Hooper (Austin, 1943) made his first film with his family's 8 mm camera at the age of three. Throughout his childhood, he continued to make movies and spend as much time as he could in a movie theatre. In 1974, he helped radically rewrite the horror genre with his classic film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Then he directed other successful features, such as the TV movie Salem's Lot, based on the Stephen King's book, and Poltergeist (1982), which spurred two sequels and a television series. In 1996 he directed Dark Skies, a pilot for an NBC science series which received an Emmy nomination. In 2002 he directed the pilot episode of the series "Taken", produced by Steven Spielberg for the Sci Fi Network.
FILMOGRAFIA
Eggshells (1969), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Non aprite quella porta, 1974), Eaten Alive (Quel motel vicino alla palude, 1977), Salem's Lot (Le notti di Salem, TV, 1979), The Funhouse (Il tunnel dell'orrore, 1981), Poltergeist (Poltergeist - demoniache presenze, 1982), Space Vampires (id., 1985), The Equalizer (Un giustiziere a New York, TV, 1985), "Amazing Stories" - Miss Sturdust («Storie incredibili» - Miss Sturdust, TV, 1985), Invaders from Mars (Invaders, 1986), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (Non aprite quella porta - parte 2, 1986), Freddy's Nightmares (TV, 1988), "Tales from the Crypt" - Dead Wait (TV, 1989), Spontaneous Combustion (Il figlio del fuoco, 1990), I'm Dangerous Tonight (Il vestito che uccide, TV, 1990), Eye (epis. Body Bags, Body Bags - Corpi estranei, co-regia John Carpenter, cm, TV, 1993), Night Terrors (1993), The Mangler (La macchina infernale, 1995), Nowhere Man (TV, 1995), Dark Skies (Dark Series - Oscure presenze, TV, 1996), Perversions of Science (TV, 1997), The Apartment Complex (TV, 1999), Crocodile (2000), "The Others" - Souls On Board (cm, TV, 2000), "Night Visions" - Cargo (cm, TV, 2001), The Maze (epis. Shadow Realm, co-regia Keith Gordon, Paul Shapiro, Ian Toynton, cm, TV, 2002), "Taken" - Beyond the Sky (cm, TV, 2002), Toolbox Murders (2003).