Biography
Gary Sherman, (born 1945), is an American film director, producer, and writer from Chicago, Illinois. He began his career directing short films, commercials, industrials, and documentaries while still an undergraduate at IIT's Institute of Design. After graduating, Gary moved to London, England, where he continued directing commercials and also co-wrote and directed his first feature film, Death Line starring Donald Pleasence. The British Film Institute called this debut "The Most Significant Di...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story
2022
as Self
Robert Englund has become one of the most revolutionary horror icons of our generation. This intimate portrait captures the man behind the Nightmare O...
Tales of the Uncanny
2020
as Self
A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.
Memory: The Origins of Alien
2019
as Self
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the ...
39: A Film by Carroll McKane
2006
Director
Carroll McKane's DVcams have recorded the deaths of his 36 past victims. His killing room, a makeshift studio, is the set for the murders of two more ...
The Glow
2002
Teleplay
A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.
Murderous Vision
1991
Director, Producer
Detective Kyle Robeshaw is a headstrong detective who finds himself stuck in a dead end job in missing person's as a result. One of his cases leads hi...
Fire and Rain
1990
Writer
This movie is based on the actual events on the tragic day of August 2nd, 1985. Delta Airlines flight 191 en route to Los Angeles Via Dallas Ft Worth ...
After the Shock
1990
Director, Writer
On October 17 1989, an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale rocked San Francisco. Presented here are some of the stories of the brave members...
Lisa
1990
Writer, Director, Producer
A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a stranger who is, unbeknownst to her, a serial killer.
Poltergeist III
1988
Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay
Carol Anne has been sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle in an effort to hide her from the clutches of the ghostly Reverend Kane, but he tracks her do...
Wanted: Dead or Alive
1987
Director, Writer
Nick Randall is a Los Angeles-based bounty hunter and an ex-CIA operative who is asked by a former co-worker to help track down terrorist Malak Al Rah...
The Streets
1984
Writer, Director
Undercover cops Wreade & Grozzo (Beck & Orbach) are searching for the identity of a gang leader who is selling handguns to people for their self prote...
Mysterious Two
1982
Director, Writer
Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.
Vice Squad
1982
Director
An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.
Dead & Buried
1981
Director
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living norm...
Phobia
1980
Story
A psychiatrist involved in a radical new therapy comes under suspicion when his patients are murdered, each according to their individual phobias.
Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women
1979
Screenplay
The all-male crew of an oil company makes an emergency landing on an island and finds itself at the mercy of a tribe of hostile women programmed to ki...
Death Line
1972
Director, Original Story
There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the lat...