Gary Sherman

Gary Sherman

1945-01-01 Chicago, Illinois, USA 18 Credits

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...

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Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story

2022

as Self

6.1
Acting

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

Tales of the Uncanny

2020

as Self

7.1
Acting

A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.

Memory: The Origins of Alien

Memory: The Origins of Alien

2019

as Self

6.3
Acting

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

Directing

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

The Glow

2002

Teleplay

5.2

A newly-wed NYC couple move into a low-rent luxury apartment only to be harassed by cryptic elderly neighbors.

Murderous Vision

Murderous Vision

1991

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

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

Fire and Rain

1990

Writer

5.8
Writing

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

After the Shock

1990

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

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

Lisa

1990

Writer, Director, Producer

5.5
Writing Directing Producing

A teenage girl becomes infatuated with a stranger who is, unbeknownst to her, a serial killer.

Poltergeist III

Poltergeist III

1988

Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Producing Writing

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

Wanted: Dead or Alive

1987

Director, Writer

5.9
Directing Writing

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

Writing Directing

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

Mysterious Two

1982

Director, Writer

5.8
Directing Writing

Two Aliens visit the Earth in an effort to enlist converts to travel the universe with them.

Vice Squad

Vice Squad

1982

Director

6.2
Directing

An unlikely Hollywood hooker helps a detective set a trap for a mutilator pimp.

Dead & Buried

Dead & Buried

1981

Director

6.4
Directing

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

Phobia

1980

Story

4.4
Writing

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

Mysterious Island of Beautiful Women

1979

Screenplay

2.9
Writing

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

Death Line

1972

Director, Original Story

5.8
Directing Writing

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...