Jack Hill

Jack Hill

1933-01-28 Los Angeles, California, USA 36 Credits

Biography

Jack Hill (born January 28, 1933) is an U.S. film director, noted for his work in the exploitation film genre. Hill was born in Los Angeles. His mother, Mildred (née Pannill), was a music teacher and his father, Roland Everett Hill, worked as a set builder for film studios and was an architect. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Hill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story

2022

as Self - Interviewee

10.0
Acting

Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story takes a deeper look at the life and career of Boris Karloff, from 1931 to 1969, exploring films such as The Ghoul...

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

Time Warp Vol. 1: Midnight Madness

2020

as Self

6.8
Acting

From "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" to "The Big Lebowski" and everything in between, this fascinating deep-dive documentary begins its celebration of...

That Guy Dick Miller

That Guy Dick Miller

2014

as Self

7.0
Acting

Documentary about veteran character actor Dick Miller, whose career in and outside of Hollywood has spanned almost 200 films across six decades, featu...

From Manila with Love

From Manila with Love

2011

as Himself

Acting

Retrospective documentary on the making of the 70's women-in-prison exploitation cult favorites "The Big Doll House" and "The Big Bird Cage".

American Grindhouse

American Grindhouse

2011

as Himself

6.8
Acting

This documentary explores the hidden history of the American Exploitation Film. The movie digs deep into this often overlooked category of U.S. cinema...

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

2010

as Self

6.7
Acting

In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind...

Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.

Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney, Jr.

2010

as Self

7.0
Acting

A short documentary about the classic Universal Monster actor, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Sugar Boxx

Sugar Boxx

2009

as Judge #2

3.5
Acting

Sugar State Women’s Prison. An Everglades hellhole where innocent girls are forced to slave in the swamps by day then turn tricks for the warden by ni...

Spider Stravinsky: The Cinema Sounds of Ronald Stein

2007

as Himself

9.5
Acting

The composer of ‘The Terror’ and ‘Attack of the 50 Foot Woman’ among others is remembered by Harlene Stein, Jack Hill, American Cinematheque’s Chris D...

The Hatching of Spider Baby

The Hatching of Spider Baby

2007

as Himself

Acting

Documentary focusing on Jack Hill's classic film, Spider Baby. Featured on the new Special Edition DVD.

I Pass for Human

I Pass for Human

2004

as Azami's Father

4.0
Acting

Jane's lover Dax overdoses on heroin. Wanting to kill the pain of loss, Jane does dope for the first time and is soon on the way to addiction herself....

Hollywood Rated 'R'

Hollywood Rated 'R'

1997

as Self

5.1
Acting

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman's sci-fi and horror monster movies, 1960s beach mo...

Sorceress

Sorceress

1982

Director, Producer

4.4
Directing Producing

To maintain his powers, the evil wizard Traigon must sacrifice his firstborn child to the god Caligara. His wife, however, has other ideas and runs aw...

Death Ship

Death Ship

1980

Story

5.2
Writing

Survivors of a tragic shipping collision are rescued by a mysterious black ship which appears out of the fog. Little do they realise that the ship is ...

City on Fire

City on Fire

1979

Writer

5.0
Writing

An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.

Switchblade Sisters

Switchblade Sisters

1975

Director, Story

6.4
Directing Writing

A tough gang of teenage girls are looking for love and fighting for turf on the mean streets of the city! Bad girls to the core, these impossibly outr...

The Swinging Cheerleaders

The Swinging Cheerleaders

1974

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.

Foxy Brown

Foxy Brown

1974

Director, Writer

6.2
Directing Writing

A voluptuous black woman takes a job as a high-class prostitute in order to get revenge on the mobsters who murdered her boyfriend.

Coffy

Coffy

1973

Director, Screenplay

6.6
Directing Writing

After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilan...

The Woman Hunt

The Woman Hunt

1972

Story

3.8
Writing

A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.

The Big Bird Cage

The Big Bird Cage

1972

Director, Writer

5.7
Directing Writing

Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.

The Big Doll House

The Big Doll House

1971

Director

5.6
Directing

Female prisoners in a Philippine jail are being subjected to sadistic torture. Five of the women -- along with the help of two men -- plot an escape.

Alien Terror

Alien Terror

1971

Director

3.5
Directing

Near the end of the 19th century, Prof. John Mayer and his assistant, the scientist Dr. Isabel Reed, accidentally invent a powerful ray. An alien trav...

Isle of the Snake People

Isle of the Snake People

1971

Director, Screenplay

3.1
Directing Writing

The inhabitants of a small, remote island have been practicing voodoo rites and worshipping an evil priest named Damballah for years, but the local la...

Me, a Groupie

Me, a Groupie

1970

Director, Writer

4.7
Directing Writing

A beautiful blonde hooks up with a rock star, and after a night of sex and drugs, he leaves. She, though, has fallen madly in love with him, and sets ...

Pit Stop

Pit Stop

1969

Director, Screenplay, Camera Operator

6.7
Directing Writing

Rick Bowman, a drag racing street punk, comes to the attention of crafty businessman Grant Willard. Willard bails him out of jail and offers him spons...

Fear Chamber

Fear Chamber

1968

Director, Writer

4.5
Directing Writing

The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.

Macabre Serenade

Macabre Serenade

1968

Director, Screenplay

4.0
Directing Writing

Relatives of a recently deceased man meet at his eerie castle for a reading of the will. They encounter a sinister piano player who turns out to be a ...

Spider Baby

Spider Baby

1967

Director, Writer, Editor

6.9
Directing Writing

In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives with the inherited curse of a disease that causes th...

Blood Bath

Blood Bath

1966

Director, Screenplay, Producer

5.5
Directing Writing Producing

A painter of morbid art, who becomes a murderous vampire by night and kills young women, attempts a daytime relationship with a woman who resembles a ...

Mondo Keyhole

Mondo Keyhole

1966

Director, Writer, Editor

4.0
Directing Writing

Howard Thorne is a rapist in Los Angeles: he meets women at work and at parties or he sees them walking down the street, and he follows them, terrifie...

The Raw Ones

The Raw Ones

1965

Director of Photography, Editor

4.1
Directing

Sun-kissed Floridians enjoy volleyball, jumping rope, trampolines, and relaxing in the sun.

Dementia 13

Dementia 13

1963

Additional Writing, Second Unit Director

5.5
Directing

A widow deceives her late husband's mother and brothers into thinking he's still alive when she attends the yearly memorial to his drowned sister, hop...

The Terror

The Terror

1963

Screenplay, Director

5.1
Writing Directing

Lt. Andre Duvalier awakens on a beach to the sight of a strange woman who leads him to the gothic, towering castle that serves as home to an eerie bar...

Tonight for Sure

Tonight for Sure

1962

Director of Photography

3.0
Directing

On the Las Vegas strip, two unlikely men rendezvous: Samuel Hill, an ill-kempt desert miner, and Benjamin Jabowski, a John Birch Society dandy from th...

The Host

The Host

1960

Director, Writer, Editor

5.4
Directing Writing

Fugitive gangster comes to lonely spanish shelter. Has to kill evil gunman to set settlers free and bring rain. But when he decides to leave, his pony...