Swamp Thing (film)
Swamp Thing is a 1982 American Technicolor superhero film written and directed by Wes Craven, based on the Vertigo/ DC Comics character of the same name created by Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson.
It tells the story of scientist Alec Holland( Ray Wise) who becomes transformed into the monster the Swamp Thing( Dick Durock) through laboratory sabotage orchestrated by the evil Anton Arcane( Louis Jourdan).
Later, he helps a woman named Alice Cable( Adrienne Barbeau) and battles the man responsible for it all, the ruthless Arcane.
It was followed by a sequel," The Return of Swamp Thing", in 1989.
Video from Hell
Video from
Hell is a video released in 1987 by Frank Zappa.
It is a compilation of pieces of music and video from a series of projects that Zappa presumably planned to finish and release for home video, including a companion video for the" You Ca n't Do That On Stage Anymore" series of albums, but those projects were ultimately never completed.
Many pieces from this video had appeared on a one- hour" Night Flight" special entitled" You Are What You Watch".
The music video for the song" G- Spot Tornado" features color 8 mm footage that Zappa shot at a county fair in the early 1960s, while the music video for" Night School" features footage from the making of his feature film" 200 Motels".
It also features the music video for" You Are What You Is" which was banned by MTV.
A guitar solo duet between Zappa and Steve Vai taken from the song" Stevie's Spanking" was later released on" You Ca n't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol.
4".
As of December 2011, the video has not yet been released on DVD.
Titled similarly to 1986's" Jazz from Hell" instrumental album, the title is explained as a political reference by Zappa:" Things in America can be from hell.
Right now we have a president from hell[ Reagan], and a National Security Council from hell, so we should add" Jazz from Hell" also."
Bruce Kessler
Bruce Kessler( born March 23, 1936) is an American racing driver and film and television director.
He entered one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix( Monaco 1958) with a Connaught owned by Bernie Ecclestone, but failed to qualify, although he posted the 21st fastest time of the 28 entrants.
Kessler born in Seattle, Washington and grew up in Beverly Hills, California.
He was the son of a clothing designer.
In the early 1950s he started racing his mother's Jaguar XK120 in the Sports Car Club of America races at sixteen years old.
He raced the road race courses at Paramount Ranch and Willow Springs in California.
He was a team driver along with Chuck Daigh for the Scarab race cars built by his good friend Lance Reventlow in the late 1950s.
Kessler and Reventlow, driving Reventlow's Mercedes- Benz SL aluminum coupe had stopped at Blackwells Corner on CA Rt. 466/133 on September 30, 1955 on their way to the Salinas Road Races when James Dean and his mechanic, Rolf Wutherich pulled in with Dean's Porsche Spyder.
They all agreed to meet for dinner at Paso Robles, about 60 miles away that evening.
Reventlow and Kessler took off 10 minutes earlier.
Dean never made it as he was involved in a fatal two- car crash at Rt. 466/41 near Cholame 30 miles away.
Kessler, today, remains the last person alive who spoke with James Dean before his death.
The Scarabs won the International Grand Prix at Riverside, California beating the famous driver Phil Hill and the Ferrari team.
Kessler was invited to Europe to drive at Le Mans.
On 22 March 1958 Kessler became class winner at" 12 hour Florida International Grand Prix of Endurance for the AMOCO Trophy"( 12 h Sebring), driving a Ferrari 250 GT LWB(# 0773 GT).
After a serious crash at the 1959 Examiner Grand Prix at Pomona, California, he spent days in a coma.
Soon after, he retired from racing.
Kessler came back to California and became a film and television director.
He directed many television films and series.
One of his earliest efforts was a short film he directed on the Scarab race car for his friend Lance Reventlow called" The Sound of Speed".
As a film and television director, some his credits include" Angels from HellThe Monkees The Flying NunIt Takes a ThiefMarcus Welby, M.D. The Rockford FilesMcCloudCHi Ps The Greatest American Hero The A- TeamMickey Spillane's Mike Hammer Hunter" and" Renegade", his last directing credit.
Kessler was also a world class skeet and trap shooter.
He is now retired in Marina Del Rey, California.
Jim Wynorski
Jim Wynorski( born August 14, 1950 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer.
Wynorski has been making B-movies and exploitation movies since the early 1980s, and has directed over 150 feature films.
His earliest films were released to movie theaters, but his later works have predominantly been released to cable or the straight- to- video market.
He often works under pseudonyms such as" Jay Andrews, Arch Stanton, H.R.
Blueberry, Tom Popatopolis," and" Noble Henry."
His movies often spoof horror films:" Cleavagefield", for example, parodies" Cloverfield The Bare Wench Project" parodies" The Blair Witch Project", and" Para- Knockers Activity" parodies" Paranormal Activity".
A character in the film" The Final Destination" is named after him.
In 2009, the documentary" Popatopolis", directed by Clay Westervelt and named for one of Wynorski's pseudonyms, chronicled Wynorski during the making of his soft- core horror film," The Witches of Breastwick".
The film serves as a partial biography, with clips from many of his previous films and includes interviews with Wynorski, his contemporaries, cast, and crew.
In 2016, he directed" Nessie& Me", marking the first time that he directed a children's film.
The character Jack O’ Grady directly references Wynorski's earlier films" Dinocroc vs. Supergator" and" Piranhaconda" when he encounters Nessie at the start of the film, hinting that" Nessie& Me" is canon to those film series, as well as" Monster Cruise", with many characters from it appearing in" Nessie& Me" as well.
Swamp Thing (disambiguation)
Swamp Thing is a DC Comics character.
Swamp Thing may also refer to:
Mike Butcher
Michael Dana Butcher( born May 10, 1965) is an American professional baseball pitcher and coach.
He played in Major League Baseball for the California Angels from to.
He served as the pitching coach for the Tampa Bay Rays in 2006, for the Angels from 2007 through 2015, and was previously the pitching coach for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The Return of Swamp Thing
The Return of Swamp Thing is a 1989 American superhero film based on the Vertigo/DC Comics character of the same name.
Directed by Jim Wynorski, it is a sequel to the 1982 film "Swamp Thing", having a lighter tone than its predecessor.
The film has a main title montage that consists of comic book covers set to Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Born on the Bayou", and features Dick Durock and Louis Jourdan reprising their roles as the Swamp Thing and Anton Arcane, respectively, along with Sarah Douglas and Heather Locklear.
Dick Durock
Richard Durock (January 18, 1937 – September 17, 2009) was an American actor and stuntman who appeared in over eighty films and over seven hundred television episodes.
He was perhaps best known for playing Swamp Thing in both the feature films "Swamp Thing" and "The Return of Swamp Thing" and the .
Angels from Hell
Angels from Hell is a 1968 action film directed by Bruce Kessler and starring Tom Stern and Arlene Martel.
It was the first film produced by Joe Solomon's Fanfare Films, a firm Solomon had created with the profits from three previous biker films.
The film was shot in Bakersfield, California.
The screenplay was written by Jerome Wish, and the film used music by the Peanut Butter Conspiracy and the Lollipop Shoppe.
Dick Durock
Richard Durock (January 18, 1937 – September 17, 2009) was an American actor and stuntman who appeared in over eighty films and over seven hundred television episodes.
He was perhaps best known for playing Swamp Thing in both the feature films "Swamp Thing" and "The Return of Swamp Thing" and the .

Question: Do both films The Return Of Swamp Thing and Angels From Hell have the directors from the same country?
Answer: yes