23° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Americana

Masters of Horror: Homecoming

Masters of Horror: Homecoming

Country: USA
Year: 2005
Duration: 60'


Terror and scandal grip the nation when the media discovers that the living dead have swayed the presidential election. This adaptation of Dale Bailey's award-winning short story Death & Suffrage blends zombie horror and contemporary political satire with chilling results.
"Horror comes in many forms. It can be within the safe confines of a movie theater or it can be in the shock of real life, of being alive. And it can be the terror of not being in charge of your own life, of being manipulated by forces over which you have no control. Many people today are experiencing such horror. This story should be being told in various venues, but instead it's being told, perhaps appropriately, as an installment of Masters of Horror." (J. Dante)

Biography

film director

Joe Dante

Joe Dante (Morristown, New Jersey, 1948) studied at the Philadelphia College of Art. He made his first full-length film in 1968, a 420-minute-long experimental film made by editing B-movie clips: The Movie Orgy. Public recognition of his artistry arrived with Piranha (1978) and The Howling (1980), in which the director interprets horror in a modern key. In 1984 he made Gremlins for Steven Spielberg, followed by a sequel in 1990. His two films The Second Civil War (1997) and Small Soldiers (1998) were parodies of war. In 2003 he made Looney Tunes: Back in Action with the famous Warner Bros. characters; the film premiered in Italy at the Torino Film Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

The Movie Orgy (1968), Hollywood Boulevard (1976), Piranha (id., 1978), The Howling (L’ululato, 1981), Gremlins (id., 1984), Explorers (1985), Innerspace (Salto nel buio, 1987), The Burbs, (L’erba del vicino, 1989), Gremlins 2: The New Batch (Gremlins 2 - La nuova stirpe, 1990), Matinée (id., 1993), The Second Civil War (La seconda guerra civile americana, 1997), Small Soldiers (id., 1998), Looney Tunes: Back in Action (id., 2003), Haunted Lighthouse (2003), Masters of Horror (ep. Homecoming, TV, 2005).

TFF

prizes

CINEMAVVENIRE AWARD 2005

Special Mention

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