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David Allen is a Director, Writer, Animation and Special Effects American born on 22 october 1944
David Allen was an American special effects artist. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects at the 17th Academy Awards for work on the film Secret Command.
(1985)
(Visual Effects Supervisor)
(1981)
(Visual Effects)
(1944)
(Special Effects)
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David Allen was an American special effects artist. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Special Effects at the 17th Academy Awards for work on the film Secret Command.
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(1985)(Visual Effects Supervisor)
(1981)(Visual Effects)
(1944)(Special Effects)
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Filmography of David Allen (23 films)
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Puppet Master II (1990)
, 1h28Directed by David Allen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Jeu, Films about toys
Actors Jeff Celentano, George Buck Flower, Nita Talbot
Rating55%
The film begins in 1991, when Shady Oaks, a cemetery in the backyard of the Bodega Bay Inn. We see Pinhead digging Andre Toulon's grave. Pinhead opens up the coffin, climbs out, and pours a vial of the potion on the skeleton, with Tunneler, Leech Woman, Blade and Jester watching. After pouring the formula, the skeleton raises its arms, indicating that Andre Toulon is alive again. A few months later, a group of parapsychologists, led by Carolyn Bramwell (Elizabeth Maclellan), are sent to the hotel to investigate the strange murder of Megan Gallagher and the lunatic ravings of a now insane Alex Whitaker. It is explained that Megan's brain was extracted through her nose (by Blade), and Alex, suspected of the murder, is now locked up in an asylum. While at the asylum, he begins to experience terrible seizures and premonitions.
The Dungeonmaster (1984)
, 1h13Directed by John Carl Buechler, Ted Nicolaou, Charles Band, Steven Ford, David Allen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about computing
Actors Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Phil Fondacaro, Paul Pape, Felix Silla, Peter Kent
Rating46%
Paul Bradford (Jeffrey Byron) is a skilled computer programmer who lives with his girlfriend, Gwen (Leslie Wing), and "X-CaliBR8," a quasi-sentient personal computer that Paul programmed and which he interacts with via a neural interface. Gwen is jealous of Paul's unusually close relationship with X-CaliBR8, to whom Paul has given a female voice, and fears that their relationship will be destroyed by Paul's reliance on X-CaliBR8 for his various day-to-day activities.
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The Dungeonmaster (1984)
, 1h13Directed by John Carl Buechler, Ted Nicolaou, Charles Band, Steven Ford, David Allen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about computing
Actors Jeffrey Byron, Richard Moll, Phil Fondacaro, Paul Pape, Felix Silla, Peter Kent
Roles Writer
Rating46%
Paul Bradford (Jeffrey Byron) is a skilled computer programmer who lives with his girlfriend, Gwen (Leslie Wing), and "X-CaliBR8," a quasi-sentient personal computer that Paul programmed and which he interacts with via a neural interface. Gwen is jealous of Paul's unusually close relationship with X-CaliBR8, to whom Paul has given a female voice, and fears that their relationship will be destroyed by Paul's reliance on X-CaliBR8 for his various day-to-day activities.
Visual effects
Freaked (1996)
, 1h20Directed by Alex Winter, Tom Stern
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films
Actors Alex Winter, Michael Stoyanov, William Sadler, Megan Ward, Mr. T, Brooke Shields
Roles Animation
Rating63%
Skye (Brooke Shields) is interviewing beloved former child star Ricky Coogin (Alex Winter). Rather bluntly, Skye asks how Ricky so quickly went from one of America's sweethearts to a name that makes children scream in terror.
Oblivion 2: Backlash (1996)
, 1h23Directed by Sam Irvin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Western
Themes Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Andrew Divoff, George Takei, Jackie Swanson, Julie Newmar, Isaac Hayes, Musetta Vander
Roles Visual Effects Director
Rating49%
In the alien-western world of Oblivion, a suave, yet lethal bounty hunter named Sweeney arrives to arrest the seductive outlaw Lash on multiple charges, including murder. Lash, who just "inherited" a mine of Derconium (the most valuable mineral in the universe) from Crowley in a game of cards, meets up with Redeye's brother, Jaggar, who wants the mine for himself to rule the galaxy. It's a fight over Lash between the sheriff of Oblivion, Jaggar, and Sweeney. But who will emerge victorious?
Oblivion (1994)
, 1h34Directed by Sam Irvin
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Documentary, Action, Adventure, Western, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Space opera
Actors Jackie Swanson, Andrew Divoff, George Takei, Julie Newmar, Isaac Hayes, Musetta Vander
Roles Visual Effects Director
Rating48%
The story has been described as a science fiction Western. It is, arguably, better termed a space Western, due to its extraterrestrial location.
Puppet Master 5 (1994)
, 1h22Directed by Jeff Burr
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Jeu, Films about toys
Actors Guy Rolfe, Gordon Currie, Chandra West, Ian Ogilvy, Teresa Hill, Nicholas Guest
Roles Visual Effects
Rating50%
Following the events of Puppet Master 4, Rick Myers has been arrested under the suspicion of having caused the murders of Dr. Piper and Baker, but Dr. Jennings, the new director of the Artificial Intelligence research project and Rick's temporary superior, gets him out on bail. Blade has been confiscated, but he escapes from the police department's evidence room and jumps into Susie's purse as she comes to fetch Rick. Lauren lies comatose in the hospital following the events in the inn. Meanwhile, in the underworld, Sutekh decides to take matters into his own hands and infuses his life essence into his own Totem figure.
Dollman vs. Demonic Toys (1993)
, 1h4Directed by Charles Band
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about toys
Actors Tim Thomerson, Melissa Behr, Tracy Scoggins, Phil Fondacaro, Willie C. Carpenter, Jackie Earle Haley
Roles Animation
Rating44%
The film begins with Brick Bardo (Tim Thomerson, from Dollman) hitchhiking to get to the town of Pahoota, where he tries to find a girl named Nurse Ginger (Melissa Behr, who was shrunken to 11 inches in Bad Channels), to prove to her that she is not alone. Meanwhile, the film cuts to Judith Grey (Tracy Scoggins from Demonic Toys), who has a nightmare about the events that happened in the previous film a year before. Ever since the events that took place a year before, Judith has been watching the Toyland Warehouse, believing that the toys are still alive. Meanwhile, a drunken bum (R.C. Bates) enters the warehouse to shelter from the rain, and starts to mess around with a clown tricycle, until he gets knocked in the head with a box of toys, causing him to hit his head on the ground, killing him. However, his blood continues to flow over to the place where the demon was buried, and brings back: Baby Oopsy Daisy, Jack Attack, and Mr. Static, but Grizzly Teddy is replaced by a new toy named Zombietoid - a blonde GI Joe action figure with a sword as a weapon.
Doctor Mordrid (1992)
, 1h14Directed by Albert Band, Charles Band
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Actors Jeffrey Combs, Jay Acovone, Brian Thompson, Ritch Brinkley, Jeff Austin
Roles Animation
Rating54%
Anton Mordrid is a wizard sent to Earth by a being called The Monitor, to stop the evil wizard Kabal from opening the gate to Hell. Kabal needs the Philosopher's Stone and several alchemical elements to complete the spell and open the gate, unleashing his minions from the Fourth Dimension upon the Earth. Mordrid watches for signs of Kabal's presence for 150 years; as the time of their epic battle approaches, Mordrid assumes the role of a criminal psychologist, and becomes the mysterious landlord to Samantha Hunt, a research consultant to the police.
Puppet Master III (1992)
, 1h26Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Jeu, Zombie films, Films about toys, Political films
Actors Guy Rolfe, Sarah Douglas, Walter Gotell, Irene Miracle, Ian Abercrombie, Aron Eisenberg
Roles Visual Effects
Rating60%
The film is set during 1941 (in contrast to Puppet Master 1 establishing that Toulon committed suicide in 1939, and should've been 1938) in World War II Berlin. A scientist named Dr. Hess is forced by the Nazis, especially his Gestapo liaison Major Kraus, to create a drug capable of animating corpses to use as living shields on the battlefield after losing too many on the Eastern Front. But, Dr. Hess cannot get it right: While the corpses do reanimate, they have a tendency towards mindless violence. In a small theater downtown, Andre Toulon has set up a politically satirical puppet show for children, starring a six-armed American Old West puppet named Six Shooter, who attacks an inanimate reconstruction puppet of Adolf Hitler. The show is, next to a crowd of children, also attended by Lt. Erich Stein, Kraus' driver. After the performance, Toulon and his wife Elsa feed the puppets with the formula which sustains their life force, but they are watched by Stein, who informs his superior the next morning. Hess, genuinely fascinated by the formula, wants Toulon to freely share the secret with him, but Kraus wants to take Toulon in for treason.
Prehysteria! (1992)
, 4h10Directed by Albert Band, David DeCoteau, Charles Band
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Dinosaur films, La préhistoire
Actors Brett Cullen, Owen Bush, Austin O'Brien, Whitney Anderson, Tony Longo, Stuart Fratkin
Roles VFX Supervisor
Rating46%
Prehysteria! tells the story of Rico Sarno, a museum curator, who enters a forbidden temple in South America, and discovers a nest of five eggs. He steals them and brings them back to his museum. Frank Taylor (Brett Cullen), a farmer, sells fossils to Rico and in a mix up, the Taylor's dog takes a cooler, which has the eggs. The kids, Monica (Samantha Mills) and Jerry (Austin O'Brien) discover the dinosaurs when they hatch and try to keep it a secret, until their father finds out. Vicki (Colleen Morris), a woman who works for Rico, sees the dinosaurs, she tells the Taylors not to give them back to Rico because he will expose them. Rico finds out the Taylors have them and hires two robbers to help him get the dinosaurs back.
Crash and Burn (1990)
, 1h25Directed by Charles Band
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Films about religion, Films set in the future, Political films, Dystopian films, Robot films, Disaster films
Actors Paul Ganus, Megan Ward, Ralph Waite, Jack McGee, Bill Moseley, Eva LaRue
Roles Visual Effects
Rating49%
Unicom is a powerful organization overseeing most of the world after its economic collapse. They have banned computers and robots in an attempt to ensure "life, liberty, and the pursuit of economic stability." When a Unicom Synth robot infiltrates a southwest TV station and kills the manager, a revolutionary against the gestapo-like corporation, a lowly Unicom delivery man must help the rest of the station survive through the incoming "thermal storm."
Puppet Master II (1990)
, 1h28Directed by David Allen
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Horror
Themes Jeu, Films about toys
Actors Jeff Celentano, George Buck Flower, Nita Talbot
Roles Visual Effects Supervisor
Rating55%
The film begins in 1991, when Shady Oaks, a cemetery in the backyard of the Bodega Bay Inn. We see Pinhead digging Andre Toulon's grave. Pinhead opens up the coffin, climbs out, and pours a vial of the potion on the skeleton, with Tunneler, Leech Woman, Blade and Jester watching. After pouring the formula, the skeleton raises its arms, indicating that Andre Toulon is alive again. A few months later, a group of parapsychologists, led by Carolyn Bramwell (Elizabeth Maclellan), are sent to the hotel to investigate the strange murder of Megan Gallagher and the lunatic ravings of a now insane Alex Whitaker. It is explained that Megan's brain was extracted through her nose (by Blade), and Alex, suspected of the murder, is now locked up in an asylum. While at the asylum, he begins to experience terrible seizures and premonitions.
Dolls (1987)
, 1h18Directed by Stuart Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Horror
Themes Jeu, Serial killer films, Films about toys
Actors Guy Rolfe, Ian Patrick Williams, Hilary Mason, Carolyn Purdy, Bunty Bailey, Cassie Stuart
Roles Visual Effects
Rating63%
A violent thunderstorm strands six people in the gothic English countryside including little Judy, who's traveling with her distant, uncaring father, David Bower, and her callous, arrogant stepmother Rosemary. They are accompanied by an amiable, mild-mannered businessman Ralph, who has given a ride to Isabel and Enid, two British punk rock girls who are hitchhiking. They all wind up at a mansion inhabited by Gabriel and Hilary Hartwicke, a kindly elderly people who appear to be toy makers; their house literally abounds with dolls, puppets, and other beautifully detailed toys. They give Judy a new doll, Mr. Punch, after she had been forced to give up her old teddy bear by her cruel stepmother before they arrived at the house. The Hartwickes invite the stranded travelers to join them for dinner and stay as guests until the storm ends.
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
, 1h49Directed by Barry Levinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Christmas films, Sherlock Holmes films, Buddy films, Children's films
Actors Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Anthony Higgins, Sophie Ward, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Freddie Jones
Roles Visual Effects Supervisor
Rating67%
Teenagers Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) and John Watson (Alan Cox) meet and become good friends as students at London's less-than-prestigious Brompton Academy. Watson is introduced to Holmes’ mentor, Rupert T. Waxflatter (Nigel Stock), a retired schoolmaster and inventor. Waxflatter's niece Elizabeth Hardy (Sophie Ward) is also Holmes’ close friend and love interest. Holmes is generally recognized as brilliant but considered an undisciplined troublemaker by most of the school administration. He is closest to Professor Rathe (Anthony Higgins), his fencing instructor, who warns Holmes that he is too emotional and impulsive.