Alan Ormsby

WRITER, MISCELLANEOUS, MAKE_UP_DEPARTMENT

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Writer, director and make-up effects artist Alan Ormsby was born on December 14, 1943. He was a drama student at the University of Florida, where he met future director Bob Clark. The pair first collaborated on a tongue-in-cheek low-budget zombie horror flick, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972). Ormsby not only co-wrote the script and did the effectively ghoulish zombie make-up, but also gave a deliciously hammy performance as the arrogant and obnoxious theater group leader Alan. Ormsby's then-wife Anya Liffey portrayed another group member; the couple later divorced in 1981.Ormsby and Clark followed this film with Dead of Night (1974) (aka Deathdream), which was a supremely potent and unnerving Vietnam-era variant on the classic short story "The Monkey's Paw." Next up for Ormsby was the excellent Deranged (1974), which he co-wrote, co-directed and handled make-up effects chores on along with a then-unknown Tom Savini (Savini also worked with Ormsby on the make-up effects for Deathdream). Deranged (1974) was a macabre and blackly humorous rural psycho item inspired by the notorious exploits of serial killer Ed Gein. Other movies Ormsby has penned screenplays for are the delightful teen coming-of-age winner My Bodyguard (1980), Paul Schrader's sexy and stylish Cat People (1982) remake, the uproariously raunchy Porky's II: The Next Day (1983), and the exciting action opus The Substitute (1996).Ormsby did the genuinely creepy zombie make-up for the spooky Nazi horror doozy Shock Waves (1977) and wrote Movie Monsters, a book on makeup effects, in 1976. He created the popular doll Hugo: Man of a Thousand Faces, which was featured in both The Uncle Floyd Show (1974) and The Pee-Wee Herman Show (1981). He co-wrote and directed the entertaining film-within-a-film segments for the hugely enjoyable slasher send-up Popcorn (1991). He is currently married to actress Hilarie Thompson and has two sons. - IMDb Mini Biography By: woodyanders

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Alan Ormsby’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Alan Ormsby on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1972 to 1999. See the full graphs of the number of Alan Ormsby movies released per year from 1979 till 1999.

Top Genres

Alan Ormsby works mostly in Comedy Genre followed by Thriller Genre flixes. 21% of Alan Ormsby movies are Comedy Genre movies. See Top Genres that Alan Ormsby worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Alan Ormsby has worked on is 5.6.

5.6 / 10

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Comedy,Drama,Family
My Bodyguard (1980)

When a boy comes to a new school and gets harassed by a bully, he acquires the services of the school's most feared kid as a bodyguard.

7.1/1096 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Drama,Horror,Thriller
Deathdream (1974)

A young soldier killed in Vietnam inexplicably shows up to his family home one night.

6.6/1088 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

A deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother, whose corpse he keeps, among others, as his companion in a decaying farmhouse.

6.4/1084 min

Available in 4 platform(s).

Fantasy,Horror,Thriller
Cat People (1982)

A young woman's sexual awakening brings horror when she discovers her urges transform her into a monstrous black leopard.

6.2/10118 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Action,Crime,Drama
The Substitute (1996)

Mercenary Shale's team is retired after a (not so) covert mission in Cuba. He becomes substitute teacher at his teacher fiancee's Miami high school to get those behind kneecapping her. His team helps him.

6/10114 min

Available in 14 platform(s).

Comedy,Horror
Popcorn (1991)

A murderer begins killing off teenagers at a horror movie marathon they have organized in an abandoned theater.

5.8/1091 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Romance
Touch and Go (1986)

An ice hockey star is accosted by a youth gang who attempt to rob him; after he chases them off he catches the youngest member and gives him a ride home, where he meets the boy's mother. A ...

5.7/10101 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Six friends in a theatrical troupe dig up a corpse on an abandoned island to use in a mock Satanic ritual. It backfires with deadly consequences.

5.3/1087 min

Available in 5 platform(s).