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David DeCoteau is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Director of Photography, Wardrobe Supervisor, Foley Artist and Cinematography American born on 5 january 1962 at Portland (USA)

David DeCoteau

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Birth 5 january 1962 (62 years) at Portland (USA)

David DeCoteau (born January 5, 1962, Portland, Oregon) is an American and Canadian film director and producer. DeCoteau has worked professionally in the movie business since he was 18 years old. He got his start through Roger Corman, who hired him in 1980 as a production assistant at New World Pictures. In 1986, DeCoteau directed and produced his first feature film for Charles Band. DeCoteau produced and directed more than ninety motion pictures over the past twenty-five years. He resides in British Columbia and Los Angeles.

Biography

David DeCoteau a surtout réalisé des films d'horreur à petit budget, dont la série The Brotherhood, une suite de films d'horreur homoérotiques.

Il s'est également fait connaître dans les années 1980 en réunissant à l'écran trois actrices vedettes du cinéma fantastique et du cinéma d'exploitation : Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, et Michelle Bauer. Il les a dirigées dans les films Nightmare Sisters (1987) et Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988). Il réunit de nouveau les trois actrices en 2012 avec le film 1313: Cougar Cult, puis dans 3 Scream Queens en 2014.

Parmi ses films les plus marquants, on peut citer Creepozoids (1987) (mettant en vedette Linnea Quigley), Dr. Alien (1989), Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge (1991) ou encore The Killer Eye (1999).

Usually with

Charles Band
Charles Band
(27 films)
John Massari
John Massari
(6 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of David DeCoteau (59 films)

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Actor

The Disaster Artist, 1h38
Directed by James Franco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Films about films
Actors Dave Franco, Seth Rogen, James Franco, Josh Hutcherson, Zac Efron, Alison Brie
Roles David DeCoteau (uncredited)
Rating72% 3.6478753.6478753.6478753.6478753.647875
En 1998, Greg Sestero est un jeune Américain qui rêve de devenir un acteur célèbre. Dans le cadre d'un cours de théâtre, il rencontre Tommy Wiseau, un homme énigmatique et passionné qui semble habité par les mêmes désirs bien qu'il ignore tout de l'industrie du cinéma. Devenant rapidement amis, ils décident de tout faire pour réaliser leurs rêves en s'installant à Los Angeles, où Wiseau possède déjà un appartement. Bénéficiant d'une grande fortune aux origines mystérieuses, Wiseau finit par décider, après une série de refus et de déceptions, de se lancer dans l'écriture et la réalisation de son propre film, dans lequel il compte donner les rôles principaux à Greg et à lui-même.
I Am Divine, 1h30
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Films about films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentaire sur l'homosexualité, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Musical films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Divine, Jayne Mansfield, John Waters, Tab Hunter, Ricki Lake, David Lochary
Roles Self
Rating74% 3.74463.74463.74463.74463.7446
Le documentaire retrace la vie de Glenn Milstead, dont le personnage de Divine a été sacré « plus belle femme du monde ». Petit garçon timide, jeune homme complexé, il découvre les bars gays puis le travestissement. Un voisin passionné de cinéma, John Waters, le fait tourner dans ses premiers films. Avec ses amis habilleur et maquilleur, Milstead crée le personnage excessif et scandaleux de Divine qu'il interprète dans les films Mondo Trasho, Multiple Maniacs et Pink Flamingos. À la fin des années 1970, il se lance dans la chanson et fait plusieurs tournées aux États-Unis et en Europe. Il revient au cinéma en 1981 avec Polyester, puis dans Lust in the Dust de Paul Bartel et Wanda's Café. Peu après le succès de Hairspray, il meurt d'une crise cardiaque dans son sommeil.
Gingerdead Man 2: The Passion of the Crust, 1h20
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Kelsey Sanders, Junie Hoang, Michelle Bauer, John Carl Buechler, Parker Young, David DeCoteau
Roles Himself
Rating40% 2.0232652.0232652.0232652.0232652.023265
Kelvin Cheatum (K-von Moezzi) is trying to save his father's studio from bankruptcy by producing worthy heirs to his father's slate of classic low-budget cult films. Cheatum Studio's current productions include Hamburger Time Traveler Detective, Space Spankers 2015, and the ninth entry of his father's famous killer puppet franchise Tiny Terrors; however, things aren't going as planned: the cast and crew members are losing patience with the long hours, lack of pay, terrible scripts, and Kelvin's over reliance on good will towards his father. A blogger who goes by the name of "Demon Warrior 13" is organizing effective boycotts of their films.
Leeches!
Leeches! (2003)
, 1h25
Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films
Actors Matthew Twining, Josh Henderson, Charity Rahmer, David DeCoteau
Roles Franklin (voice)
Rating28% 1.4307351.4307351.4307351.4307351.430735
Members of a college swim team take anabolic steroids to enhance their performance. While on a daytrip to a local lake, a couple of the members pick up some leeches, which feed on the steroids in their blood. The leeches end up washed down a shower drain, where they grow to enormous size and return for more feedings.
Crash and Burn, 1h25
Directed 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 ILU Member (uncredited)
Rating49% 2.4996452.4996452.4996452.4996452.499645
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."

Director

A Talking Cat!?!, 1h23
Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Fantasy
Themes Films about animals, Films about cats, Children's films
Actors Johnny Whitaker, Kristine DeBell, Eric Roberts
Rating21% 1.077521.077521.077521.077521.07752
The film follows two single parent families that are brought together by Duffy (Eric Roberts) a cat with the capability of speech. The wealthy Phil (Johnny Whitaker) recently sold his computer company in order to spend more time with his model son Chris (Justin Cone), who couldn't care less. Meanwhile Susan (Kristine DeBell) is struggling to make ends meet as a caterer with her two children Tina (Janis Peebles) and Trent (Daniel Dannas). Duffy then enters their lives, giving them advice, but with the limitation that he can only speak to them once.
1313: Cougar Cult, 1h25
Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Horror
Actors Linnea Quigley, Brinke Stevens, Michelle Bauer
Rating22% 1.1418951.1418951.1418951.1418951.141895
Trois jeunes hommes, qui recherchent un job d'été, sont embauchés chez trois ravissantes femmes pour effectuer quelques travaux dans leur maison. Mais ils ne se doutent pas que ces « cougars » ne portent pas ce qualificatif par hasard.
Puppet Master X: Axis Rising, 1h28
Directed by David DeCoteau, Charles Band
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Action, Horror
Themes Jeu, Films about toys, Political films
Rating38% 1.9220251.9220251.9220251.9220251.922025
Ozu, the villain from the previous film, walks down a dark alley only to be stopped by Kommandant Moebius, the Nazi general. Ozu offers him the puppet Tunneler, in exchange for her freedom. Moebius gladly takes the prize, which immediately kills SS Soldier #1. Moebius "sets her free" by shooting her in the head. While this takes place, the puppet Blade watches from the shadows. The next morning, Danny and Beth are recovering at Danny's house. Danny tells the rest of the puppets that he couldn't revive Ninja, but they will get back Tunneler. Blade appears and informs them of Ozu's death and Tunneler's capture by the Nazis. Danny and Beth respond to a knock at the door only to be grabbed by mysterious men in suits. Meanwhile, in a secret lab in Chinatown, Docter Freuhoffer, a German doctor with a fixation on dolls, is working for Moebius to develop a machine that can reanimate the dead. The seductive Uschi, a Nazi, tries to motivate the doctor only to be interrupted by Moebius. He demands a demonstration of the machine. He brings in a Japanese man and slits his throat. The machine makes him walk for a moment only for him to decay and fall down. Freuhoffer promises to fix the machine. Moebius reminds him that if he doesn't, his daughter will be killed. He then presents him with Tunneler to study.
Snow White: A Deadly Summer, 1h25
Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Children's films
Actors Shanley Caswell, Maureen McCormick, Eric Roberts, Tim Abell, Eileen Dietz, Carolyn Purdy
Rating24% 1.2078351.2078351.2078351.2078351.207835
Eve doesn't like her stepdaughter Snow getting in her way of being fully loved by her husband. Snow's stepmother talks to a reflection of herself which tells her what to do. With her reflection's persistence, Eve sends Snow to a camp for juvenile delinquents where they are killed off. As they are killed off Snow has dreams that show her the killings and give her clues into who the killer is and why it is doing what it does, but she has to be careful. Not everyone in the camp is as trustworthy as they seem and those who run it are hiding something.
Puppet Master: Axis of Evil, 1h30
Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, War, Thriller, Fantasy, Action, Horror
Themes Jeu, Films about toys, Political films
Actors Erica Shaffer, Tom Sandoval, William Hickey
Rating43% 2.1644452.1644452.1644452.1644452.164445
The film begins at the Bodega Bay Inn, 1939. Danny Coogan (Levi Fiehler) is making wooden chairs for a wedding reception for his Uncle Len (Jerry Hoffman), who owns the Inn. Danny tells his uncle that if it was not for his limp, he would be able to go to war, along with his brother Don (Taylor M. Graham), and tells his Uncle that he's going to help Andre Toulon. Toulon is guest at the inn, whose wife was killed by the Nazis because they wanted a formula, a formula that allows his puppets to come alive. After escaping from Berlin to Geneva, Toulon came to America to hide from the Nazis. As Danny's heading over to Toulon's room, he hears a gunshot and goes to see what happened. Two men dressed in black leaving Toulon's room push Danny aside, and as they leave, he manages to get a glimpse at one of their faces. He enters the room and finds Toulon dead with a gun in his hand. Danny, to whom Toulon showed his puppets, grabs them out of a wall panel and finds that all the puppets are still there, along with unanimated Six Shooter and another puppet, named Ninja.
The Brotherhood V: Alumni, 1h26
Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Arthur Michael Napiontek, Brett Novek, Nathan Parsons, Greg Sestero
Rating27% 1.371741.371741.371741.371741.37174
A year after a mean-spirited prom prank turned deadly, the most popular students of Sunnydale High are summoned back for a surprise reunion, only to find themselves at the mercy of a relentless killer.
The Pit and the Pendulum, 1h26
Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Fantasy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Greg Sestero, Andrew Bowen, Amy Paffrath, Danielle Demski, Amy Paffrath, Tom Sandoval
Rating28% 1.4450951.4450951.4450951.4450951.445095
Seven students answer an advertisement to participate in an experiment to explore how the sensation of pain can be eliminated. Arriving at a secluded institute, they are welcomed by mysterious and eccentric scientist JB Divay (Lorielle New). But when students begin to disappear one by one, they begin to question JB's true intentions. In a final showdown, Jason (Stephen Hansen) confronts her and discovers his boyfriend Kyle (Bart Voitila) strapped to a table beneath her final experiment, inches away from the razor's edge.
The Brotherhood VI: Initiation, 1h26
Directed by David DeCoteau
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Bryan McMullin, James Preston
Rating34% 1.7021451.7021451.7021451.7021451.702145
When a group of pledges arrive at a secluded cabin for their fraternity initiation, they are met by a blood-thirsty lumberjack.