Jim Van Bebber
Actor · b. 1964 · Greenville, Ohio, USA
An actor and director known for horror/exploitation films. attended Wright State University where he studied cinema. Instead of using a bank loan to pay for a second year of college, he used the money to finance Deadbeat at Dawn, and founded the indie film company Asmodeus Productions with several colleagues. The Manson Family took more than ten years to complete. A documentary about VanBebber titled Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber covering his life from 2010 to 2015 was released in 2015.
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Movie7.0DocumentaryA documentary primarily focusing on the filming and release of the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Shocking Truth
2000 · 25 votes
Movie7.2DocumentaryA documentary of uncompromising, outlaw, cult underground filmmaker Jim Van Bebber, covering his life from 2010-2015 while he tries to make a comeback and make a new exploitation film after years of struggling to work.
Diary of a Deadbeat: The Story of Jim VanBebber
2015 · 4 votes
MovieDocumentaryThis thirty minute documentary features interviews with Giovinazzo's key contemporaries discussing the continued impact and influence of Combat Shock twenty-five years later.
Movie4.3HorrorComedyA trifecta of 80s throwback terror with mauling monsters, home invasions gone haywire and stomach-turning human sacrifice.
Last American Horror Show
2018 · 13 votes
Movie6.5DocumentaryFor 11 years, the FantAsia Film Festival in Montreal has been the premiere showcase in North America of fantasy, horror and action films from around the world. Every July, crowds line up around the block before each screening; the festival itself lasts approximately 3 weeks. In the Belly of the Beast chronicles the intense struggles that five filmmakers in attendance went through to complete their films. Crew rebellions, corporate embezzlers, and bankrupt studios are just a few of the memories conjured up during candid interviews, while the camera captures the latest challenge: the public acceptance - or rejection - of their films. Included in Dark Sky Films's Manson Family DVD and Blu-ray releases.
In the Belly of the Beast
2001 · 3 votes
Movie4.5HorrorA couple of young women are abducted and become the unwilling stars of a snuff film, wherein they are brutally tortured.
American Guinea Pig: Bouquet of Guts and Gore
2015 · 30 votes
Movie3.5HorrorA young woman, after driving her father to suicide, is examined by the Catholic Church, who determine that the girl is in fact possessed, and a wave of priests wade in and out of the demonic gore.
American Guinea Pig: The Song of Solomon
2017 · 23 votes
Movie5.4CrimeDramaA dramatization of the horrific and notorious Manson Family Murders, in the form of super 8 home movies.
The Manson Family
1997 · 63 votes
- MovieDrama
The Mirk Riders is a movie about what you can't escape. Seen through the eyes and memory of band leader, Eve, as she leads her band through the desert after their last show of their tour. But a brief car problem sends the band into an unwinding downward spiral.
Mirk Riders
2010
Movie7.5HorrorScience Fictionin a near future where AIDS is the number one killer disease, an evil pharmaceutical boss, Dr. Hex, creates a drug called Serocaine, promoted as a miracle cure, that in reality results in hideous mutations. When Hex's top scientist discovers the truth he and his family are butchered by Hex's henchmen; their son Brian survives being drilled through the head though and becomes an unstoppable maniac bent on revenge....
Drillbit
1992 · 4 votes
Movie6.3ActionCrimeGoose leaves the gang life behind after pleas from his girlfriend. But it isn't long before he's pulled back into the world of violence.
Deadbeat at Dawn
1988 · 70 votes
Movie4.6CrimeHorrorA group of directionless, bored, drug-using teenagers get involved in a cult, resulting in a murder.
My Sweet Satan
1994 · 23 votes
Movie4.1HorrorIvan is a young man who travels a barren wasteland performing shows of self mutilation to small but adoring crowds. He is doing so to attempt to understand the cycle of child abuse he has been a part of. Through flashbacks and halucinations we see his Father murder his mother as well as the psysical abuse Ivan suffered. He must make peace within himself through a sacrifice of blood and honor.
The Mutilation Man
1998 · 8 votes
Movie3.8HorrorMarvin and Sally are on their way to Grandma's when a horrible accident with a living corpse thrusts them into the path of a freakish cult. Through the use of powerful drugs, Marvin is transformed from an everyday citizen into a zealous fanatic, hell bent on leading the Zombie Cult into a final, bloody battle with the living dead and a tough biker gang. It is a dark day of suffering and bloodshed when these strange events reach their apocalyptic climax.
Zombie Cult Massacre
1998 · 4 votes
Movie3.2HorrorA demented Vietnam veteran and his pals run amok at an alligator farm in 1973 Florida.
Gator Green
2013 · 7 votes
Movie3.0HorrorMost people have vanished from the plague. There are a few thousand that still walk the earth. Among them, two outlaws, Harry Russo and Terry Hawkins come face to face with one another in a clash that sets them on a road into destiny, to find the heart of America.
The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell
2011 · 6 votes
- Movie5.2ActionThriller
Jim Van Bebber's eight-millimeter kung fu short, a prototype for Deadbeat at Dawn.
Into the Black
1983 · 4 votes
- Movie7.0Horror
To the outside world, the old boarding house seemed safe and inviting, tucked away on a tree-lined street in a cozy and quiet neighborhood. But appearances can be deceiving. One by one the boarders are about to learn its terrifying secret. A secret they'll carry to their graves. 'Demented' is an exercise in unrelenting, mind-numbing terror. Based on a shocking true story, the film is all the more horrifying because it really happened... maybe in your own town!
Demented
1994 · 1 votes
Movie6.3DocumentaryThe story of Ricky Kasso, an American teenager who murdered his friend, Gary Lauwers, in an alleged "Satanic sacrifice" during the summer of 1984.
The Acid King
2021 · 3 votes