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Hooray for Horrorwood

Nov 15, 1991

1h 15m

★ 8.0

Overview

Forrest J. Ackerman styles himself as the number-one fan of science fiction and horror movies, and he has the collection to back it up: more than 350,000 books, publicity stills, lobby cards, props, posters and paintings related to his obsession.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Dynacomm Entertainment

Hooray for Horrorwood Trailers

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Cast

Self / Host

Forrest J. Ackerman

Self

John Zacherle

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Ray Bradbury

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Robert Englund

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Mick Garris

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Linnea Quigley

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Bobbie Bresee

Self

Sara Karloff

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William Malone

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach movies, H.G. Lewis' gore-fests, William Castle's schlocky theatrical gimmicks, to 1970s blaxploitation, pre-"Deep Throat" sex tease films, Russ Meyer's bosom-heavy masterpieces, etc, etc. Over 25 interviews of the greatest purveyors of weird films of all kind from 1940 to 1975. Illustrated with dozens of films clips, trailers, extra footage, etc. This documentary as a shorter companion piece focusing on exploitation king David F. Friedman.

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