David Gregory

  • David Gregory – Tales of the Uncanny (2020)

    David Gregory2011-2020DocumentaryUSA

    A documentary exploring the subject of horror anthology movies.Read More »

  • David Gregory – The Godfathers of Mondo (2003)

    2001-2010David GregoryDocumentaryUSA

    from allmovie.com

    This concise documentary, available only in Blue Underground’s Mondo Cane Collection box set, offers unique insight into an area of cinema with which few historians would ever bother. It does so by telling the story of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi, a pair of filmmakers whose desire to create an “anti-documentary” that explored hidden truths led to the creation of the exploitation film world’s most notorious bastard child — the “mondo” film. Any good documentary lives or dies by its subject matter, and director David Gregory hits pay dirt with his subjects here — Jacopetti and Prosperi are intelligent, feisty, and compelling storytellers. Read More »

  • David Gregory – Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Dr. Moreau (2014)

    2011-2020David GregoryDocumentaryUSA

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    Synopsis
    Behind the scenes chronicle of how clash of vision, bad creative decisions, lack of interest and really bad weather plagued the disastrous production of the infamous 1996 remake of The Island of Dr. Moreau.

    Quote:
    Riding high on the wave of unforeseen success created by his arty 1990 dystopian flick HARDWARE, Richard Stanley turned next to a passion project adaptation of H.G. Wells’ THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU—which, after years of expending chutzpah and actualizing willpower, the South Africa-born writer-director somehow manages to get his provocative, imaginative take on the story green-lit by New Line with Marlon Brando installed in the lead role…Read More »

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