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.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Boris Karloff: The Rest of the Story
2022
as Self - Interviewee
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
2020
as Self
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
2014
as Self
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
2011
as Himself
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
2011
as Himself
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!
2010
as Self
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.
2010
as Self
A short documentary about the classic Universal Monster actor, Lon Chaney, Jr.

Sugar Boxx
2009
as Judge #2
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
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
2007
as Himself
Documentary focusing on Jack Hill's classic film, Spider Baby. Featured on the new Special Edition DVD.

I Pass for Human
2004
as Azami's Father
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'
1997
as Self
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
1982
Director, Producer
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
1980
Story
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
1979
Writer
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
1975
Director, Story
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
1974
Director, Writer
In order to write an expose on how cheerleading demeans women, a reporter for a college newspaper infiltrates the cheerleading squad.

Foxy Brown
1974
Director, Writer
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
1973
Director, Screenplay
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
1972
Story
A foreign correspondent is kidnapped and used for human prey.

The Big Bird Cage
1972
Director, Writer
Women rebel against slave labor in a filthy jungle prison where they feed sugar cane to a mechanical maw.

The Big Doll House
1971
Director
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
1971
Director
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
1971
Director, Screenplay
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
1970
Director, Writer
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
1969
Director, Screenplay, Camera Operator
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
1968
Director, Writer
The frightening Boris Karloff 60s thriller with Karloff as a demented doctor using torture for scientific experiments.

Macabre Serenade
1968
Director, Screenplay
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
1967
Director, Writer, Editor
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
1966
Director, Screenplay, Producer
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
1966
Director, Writer, Editor
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
1965
Director of Photography, Editor
Sun-kissed Floridians enjoy volleyball, jumping rope, trampolines, and relaxing in the sun.

Dementia 13
1963
Additional Writing, Second Unit Director
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
1963
Screenplay, Director
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
1962
Director of Photography
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
1960
Director, Writer, Editor
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...