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Gunnar Hansen is a Actor and Scriptwriter American born on 4 march 1947 at Reykjavík (Islande)
Gunnar Hansen (born March 4, 1947) is an Icelandic-born American actor and author best known for playing the mentally impaired cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
Il ne reprendra pas son rôle dans les suites du film. En 1988, il apparaît dans une parodie de Massacre à la tronçonneuse, réalisée par Fred Olen Ray : Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. Le film réunit également deux scream queen populaires des années 1980 : Linnea Quigley et Michelle Bauer. Il apparaît ensuite principalement dans des films de série B.
En 2013, il fait une apparition dans Texas Chainsaw 3D, suite directe du film de 1974.
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Gunnar Hansen (born March 4, 1947) is an Icelandic-born American actor and author best known for playing the mentally impaired cannibal Leatherface in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974).
Biography
D'origine islandaise, il obtient le rôle de Leatherface dans le film de Massacre à la tronçonneuse de Tobe Hooper, peu après avoir fini ses études.Il ne reprendra pas son rôle dans les suites du film. En 1988, il apparaît dans une parodie de Massacre à la tronçonneuse, réalisée par Fred Olen Ray : Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers. Le film réunit également deux scream queen populaires des années 1980 : Linnea Quigley et Michelle Bauer. Il apparaît ensuite principalement dans des films de série B.
En 2013, il fait une apparition dans Texas Chainsaw 3D, suite directe du film de 1974.
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Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)
, 1h32Directed by John Luessenhop
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Films about children, Serial killer films
Actors Alexandra Daddario, Scott Eastwood, Trey Songz, Tania Raymonde, Thom Barry, Richard Riehle
Roles Leatherface (archive footage)
Rating48%
Picking up after the events of the original film, the people of the small town of Newt, Texas, led by Mayor Burt Hartman (Paul Rae), burn down the farmhouse of the Sawyer family for their role in aiding Jedidiah "Jed" Sawyer (Dan Yeager), also known as "Leatherface", in several murders. The arsonists are celebrated as heroes in the community, and the entire family is presumed dead. However, an infant, Edith Sawyer, is found by one of the townsmen, Gavin Miller (David Born), who promptly murders her mother, Loretta Sawyer (Dodie Brown), and adopts Edith with his wife Arlene (Sue Rock). Twenty years later, Edith has been raised by Gavin and Arlene as Heather Miller (Alexandra Daddario). One day, Heather is notified that her estranged grandmother, Verna Carson (Marilyn Burns), has passed away and left everything to her. Discovering that she was adopted, Heather, her boyfriend Ryan (Trey Songz), and two other friends, Nikki (Tania Raymonde) and Kenny (Keram Malicki-Sánchez), travel to Newt to collect her inheritance. Along the way, the group picks up a hitchhiker named Darryl (Shaun Sipos).
Directed by Júlíus Kemp
Genres Comedy, Horror
Actors Gunnar Hansen, Pihla Viitala, Bjarni Gautur, Guðrún Gísladóttir
Roles Captain Pétur
Rating48%
An epic tale about a group of tourists who go on whale watching expedition. During the expedition the ship breaks down and they are picked up by a nearby whaler. The Fishbillies on the vessel have just gone bust and everything goes out of control.
Murder-Set-Pieces (2004)
, 1h23Directed by Nick Palumbo
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Films about pedophilia, Films about prostitution, Serial killer films
Actors Gunnar Hansen, Cerina Vincent, Tony Todd, Edwin Neal, Fred Vogel, Crissy Moran
Roles Nazi Mechanic
Rating37%
The film follows a wealthy immigrant serial killer: a German photographer, who leads a double life: by day he shoots erotic photos. By night, he rapes, tortures, and murders prostitutes.
Hatred Of A Minute (2002)
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Gunnar Hansen, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell
Roles Barry
Rating40%
Eric Seaver is a young man that was abused as a child. He has since grown up to become a serial killer with a steady job and a fiancé. As Eric's killings become more frequent, his stable life is threatened and his rage begins to take over any sanity he had left.
, 56minutesOrigin USA
Genres Documentary, Horror
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Andrew Robinson, Grace Kirby, Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley, Nicholas Vince, Simon Bamford
Rating62%
American Psycho (2000)
, 1h41Directed by Mary Harron
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality, BDSM in films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry
Actors Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Bill Sage, Samantha Mathis
Roles Leatherface (uncredited)
Rating75%
Patrick Bateman is a wealthy investment banker living in Manhattan in the late 1980s. His life revolves around dining at trendy restaurants while keeping up appearances for his fiancée, Evelyn, and for his circle of wealthy and shallow associates, most of whom he dislikes. Bateman describes the material accoutrements of his lifestyle: his daily morning exercise and beautification routine, his music collection including performers such as Huey Lewis and the News, Phil Collins, and Whitney Houston, his taste for expensive designer clothes, and the lavish couture of his apartment.
Mosquito (1994)
, 1h33Directed by Gary Jones
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Comedy, Action, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Natural horror films, Films about insects, Giant monster films, Disaster films
Actors Gunnar Hansen
Roles Earl
Rating49%
The film opens with an alien ship that crashes into a U.S national park. The alien's dead arm comes out of the craft and a small mosquito starts feeding off the blood. While driving, two lovers Megan and Ray (Rachelle Loiselle and Tim Lovelace) accidentally hit the mutated giant mosquito. They get out of the vehicle to analyses it, unsure of its nature. They then go to a summer camp and rent a Bungalow. Meanwhile Hendricks (Ron Asheton) is sent off to spread mosquito killing gas everywhere and even on the campers. Three bank robbers, Earl, Junior and Rex are stopped in the forest and this is when Rex first meets his encounter with the giant mosquitoes. He runs for his life but is accidentally shot down by Junior. Megan, Ray, Earl, Junior, Hendricks and Parks a searcher for a radioactive meteorite are brought back together in a RV. They fight against the insects until the vehicle tips over and crashes. Everyone manages to get out, except for Junior who is attacked and brutally killed by the mosquitoes. The rest of the group are trapped inside a sewer and fight off the mosquitoes with fire. The morning comes and the group comes out exhausted and wounded. They walk through the forest, find and hide in an abandoned farm house. But the mosquitoes quickly find the crew and try to get them. Meanwhile, searching around the house, Parks and Hendricks find a room filled with mosquito larva. So they plan to blow up the house to kill all the mosquitoes. They install a bomb, while still fighting against the mutants. Hendricks tries to escape the house by an elevator but the contraption breaks and Hendricks falls to his death. Earl is also later killed, one second before the house explodes and only Parks, Ray and Megan manages to survive.
Campfire Tales (1991)
, 1h28Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Gunnar Hansen
Roles Ralph
Rating46%
The first story involves a young couple returning home after hearing on the radio that a murderer with a hook on his right hand has escaped from the local insane asylum and is terrorizing the countryside. Upon returning home, the girlfriend discovers that her parents have been decapitated. As she runs to get help from her boyfriend she discovers that he has also fallen victim to the hook. A battle ensues and she comes out victorious, killing the escaped prisoner with his own hook.
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)
, 1h30Directed by Fred Olen Ray
Origin USA
Genres Erotic, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Comedy horror films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Linnea Quigley, Gunnar Hansen, Michelle Bauer, Dukey Flyswatter, Christopher Ray
Roles The Stranger
Rating53%
When private detective Jack Chandler (Richardson) tries to track down a teenage runaway (Linnea Quigley), he runs into a cult of Egyptian chainsaw-worshipping prostitutes led by "The Master" (Gunnar Hansen).
Terror in the Aisles (1984)
, 1h24Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Fantastic, Documentary, Anthology film, Horror
Themes Films about films, Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about films
Actors Donald Pleasence, Nancy Allen, Bud Abbott, Michael Ironside, Fred Asparagus, Brooke Adams
Roles Leatherface (archive footage) (uncredited)
Rating62%
Director Andrew J. Kuehn has excerpted brief segments of terror and suspense in a wide variety of suspenseful (including humorously so, ex. Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein, Saturday the 14th) films and strung them together with added commentary, as well as some enacted narrative, to create a compilation of fright-inducing effects. Halloween actor Donald Pleasence and Dressed to Kill star Nancy Allen provide the commentary on topics such as "sex and terror" (Dressed to Kill, Klute, Ms. 45, The Seduction, When a Stranger Calls), loathsome villains (Dracula, Frankenstein, Friday the 13 1 and/or 2, Halloween I and II, Marathon Man, Nighthawks, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Touch of Evil, Vice Squad, Wait Until Dark, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?), "natural terror" (Alligator, The Birds, Frogs, Jaws 1 and 2, Nightwing) and the occult (An American Werewolf in London, Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen, Carrie, The Shining). In one segment of the anthology, legendary filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock presents his concepts of how to create suspense in a clip from Alfred Hitchcock: Men Who Made The Movies.
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
, 1h24Directed by Tobe Hooper
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Allen Danziger, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen
Roles Leatherface
Rating73%
Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns) and her paraplegic brother, Franklin (Paul A. Partain), travel with three friends, Jerry (Allen Danziger), Kirk (William Vail), and Pam (Teri McMinn), to visit the grave of the Hardestys' grandfather to investigate reports of vandalism and grave robbing. Afterwards they decide to visit the old Hardesty family homestead. Along the way they pick up a hitchhiker (Edwin Neal) who talks about his family who worked at the old slaughterhouse. He borrows Franklin's pocket-knife and cuts himself, then takes a Polaroid picture of the others and demands money for it. When they refuse to pay, he burns the photo and slashes Franklin's arm with a straight razor. The group forces him out of the van and drive on. They stop at a gas station to refuel, but the proprietor (Jim Siedow) tells them that the pumps are empty.
The Olsen Gang's Big Score (1972)
, 1h39Directed by Erik Balling
Origin Danemark
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Ove Sprogøe, Morten Grunwald, Poul Arne Bundgaard, Kirsten Walther, Arthur Jensen, Poul Reichhardt
Roles Kommentator des Fußballspiels im Fernsehen (uncredited)
Rating66%
Scream of the Demon Lover (1970)
Directed by José Luis Merino
Genres Horror, Romance
Actors Gunnar Hansen, Carlos Quiney, Agostina Belli
Rating52%
En Europe Centrale, une jeune chimiste arrive dans un château pour aider un savant dans d'étranges expériences sur la vie et la mort ayant pour but la résurrection de son frère.
, 1h26Directed by Lau Lauritzen Jr., Lisbeth Movin
Origin Danemark
Genres Comedy
Actors Dirch Passer, Poul Reichhardt, Karl Stegger, Guri Richter, Lotte Horne, Jesper Langberg
Roles Himself
Rating54%