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Two main types of crime films were released during the period: the gangster picture and the prison film. A triumvirate of gangster pictures were released in the early 1930s— Little Caesar (1931), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932)—which were built on the template created by the first gangster movie, 1927's Underworld .
Dingo Pictures was a German animation company founded in 1992 by Ludwig Ickert and Roswitha Haas, and based in Friedrichsdorf. [13] They created traditionally-animated films based on fairy tales and concepts similar to those used by Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks.
The soundtrack of Scream was released in December 1996 by TVT Records as Scream: Music From The Dimension Motion Picture; it sold poorly. [176] [130] [177] Scream was released on VHS and Laserdisc in June 1997, [178] and was especially successful in the video rental market, becoming the second most rented movie of 1997 in the United States. [179]
There is an argument to be made that Natural Born Killers is the most misunderstood mainstream movie ever released. “Oliver Stone is a director who, barring Nolan and maybe a few others, is the ...
The serial-killer movie that began a 40-year franchise, "Halloween" is centered around Michael Myers, a psycho killer who escapes from a mental hospital on Halloween and returns to his hometown on ...
Here are the top 15 best one-word horror movie titles, with a few caveats. All directors, including Peele, Ari Aster, and Alfred Hitchcock, have been limited to one competitive entry. (Apologies ...
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is widely considered one of the greatest—and most controversial—horror films of all time [105] [106] and a major influence on the genre. [48] [107] In 1999, Richard Zoglin of Time commented that it had "set a new standard for slasher films". [108] The Times listed it as one of the 50 most controversial films of ...
The Killers is a 1946 American film noir directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Burt Lancaster in his film debut, along with Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien and Sam Levene.Based in part on the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway, [3] it focuses on an insurance detective's investigation into the execution by two professional killers of a former boxer who was unresistant to his ...