Bad Taste Directors
by val-498-66085 | created - 10 Oct 2012 | updated - 10 Oct 2012 | Public
1. John Waters
Writer | Pecker
Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s, John Waters was not like other children; he was obsessed by violence and gore, both real and on the screen. With his weird counter-culture friends as his cast, he began making silent 8mm and 16mm films in the mid-'60s; he screened these in rented Baltimore ...
2. Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer | Il Decameron
Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...
3. Herschell Gordon Lewis
Director | This Stuff'll Kill Ya!
Only one film-maker can claim the title "Godfather of Gore." That peculiar but apt identification seems to be the exclusive property of Herschell Gordon Lewis. With an unusual background that included teaching English Literature to college students, producing and directing television commercials, ...
4. Yotta Kasai
Director | The Viscera
Yotta Kasai was born on November 5, 1987 in Japan. He is a Japanese film director, writer, producer and painter, known for The Viscera (2013), Feeding the Flesh (2013), Methadone and Amphetamine (2014) and Crown of the Archons (2017). He has directed various short films, videos and music videos. He...
5. Tim Sullivan
Writer | 2001 Maniacs
Tim Sullivan moved to Los Angeles where he worked in development at New Line Cinema, co-producing Detroit Rock City (1999) (1999) with Gene Simmons of KISS and current Warner Brothers Chairperson and former classmate Michael De Luca. Sullivan's mainstream directorial debut was the well-received ...
6. Trey Parker
Music_department | South Park
Trey was born in Conifer, Colorado, on October 19, 1969 to Randy Parker, a geologist, and Sharon Parker, an insurance broker. He has an older sister, Shelley Parker. He met Matt Stone (co-creator of South Park (1997)) while attending the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he had a double ...
7. Sam Raimi
Director | Spider-Man
Highly inventive U.S. film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film, The Evil Dead (1981). From his childhood, Raimi was a fan of the cinema and, before he was ten-years-old, he was out making ...
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