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John Landis will be signing, beginning at 12:00pm (noon) on Saturday the 17th. Mr. Landis will only be signing for a limited time - and because of this, HorrorHound staff members will begin a line, starting at 10:00am to give special signing tickets to attendies on a first come-first serve basis. Tickets will be limited. Anyone who obtains said ticket will be granted access to John Landis' signing room beginning at 12:00 (noon). This measure is to ensure that nobody is waiting in line without the knowledge that they will, in fact, have a chance to obtain autographs. Once tickets are all taken - John MAY sign for non-ticket-holders, based on the time.
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Slasher, a documentary by John Landis, has its world premiere at the 2004 South By Southwest Film Festival. Click here for more info! And stay tuned because Slasher will premiere on the IFC Channel on Saturday, June 19th!
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John Landis came to movies the old-fashioned way: He worked his way up from the bottom. A high-school dropout who entered filmmaking as a studio gopher, later becoming a stuntman and crewmember, Landis wrote and directed his debut feature, Schlock, in 1971. He returned to filmmaking in 1977 with The Kentucky Fried Movie, a crass but funny skit collection written by the Jim Abrahams-David Zucker-Jerry Zucker comedy team. The following year, he directed the seminal 1978 college comedy Animal House, which launched John Belushi's film career and began Landis' run of freewheeling hits, including The Blues Brothers (1980), An American Werewolf In London (1981), Trading Places (1983), and Coming To America (1988). He ... took on TV projects and directed the videos for Michael Jackson's songs "Thriller" and "Black Or White." But his successes were interspersed with weaker comedies such as Spies Like Us, ¡Three Amigos!, and Amazon Women On The Moon, and they were at times overshadowed by the trial over a helicopter accident that killed actor Vic Morrow and two children during the filming of one of Landis' segments in 1983's Twilight Zone: The Movie.
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[I]n this way, John Landis did something special with that movie. And even though this is one of his only notable horror films, you can tell the man really understands. Even though it does have it’s fair share of laughs, the film is truly a scary one. And although his other horror takes like Twilight Zone: The Movie (a production filled with real life tragedy and controversy) weren’t as amazing, the forementioned recent Masters of Horror films by him are a good return to the genre. Deer Woman, a story cowrote with Landis’s son, takes on the outrageous plot of a Native American folklore story of a beautiful woman with the legs of a deer who seduces and murders men. The same way as in American Werewolf, Landis puts together an unreal sort of story and makes it real, with its characters acknowledging the absurdity the whole time and bringing out the comedic element.
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Quiet as it's kept, John Landis must be counted among the more important mainstream Hollywood filmmakers to come to prominence in the late 1970s and early 80s. Though enormously successful and influential, Landis rarely turns up in film reference books--an indication of the continuing critical disrespect that greets youth-oriented comedy. Part of the same post-countercultural movement as the laugh-a-minute screenwriting team of Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, the creative staff of the original "Saturday Night Live" and National Lampoon, Landis translated this liberating sensibility to the big screen with such uproarious features as "The Kentucky Fried Movie" (1977), "National Lampoon's Animal House" (1978) and "The Blues Brothers" (1980).
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Quiet as it's kept, John Landis must be counted among the more important mainstream Hollywood filmmakers to come to prominence in the late 1970s and early 80s. Though enormously successful and influential…
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