Welcome to the 2024 edition of my Look Back in Bedlam overview, in which I give my takes on some issues pertinent to this site, and do my best to offer a comprehensive listing of all the relevant deaths that occurred in the last year (participants in the 1972 film END OF THE ROAD didn’t fare too well in ‘24). Spoiler alert: the news, excepting a few glimmers of hope (which I’ll get to), wasn’t good.
The “AI-ephant” in the Room
Roughly a decade ago a friend of mine, who spent twenty years writing for a once-popular So Cal newspaper, decided to go back to school and learn a new trade. A wise move, it transpires, as my friend is now installed in a lucrative field while the newspaper in question is no more.
This admittedly not-very-scintillating anecdote serves as a prelude to perhaps the single most pressing issue facing the creative community: the rise of AI. A format that’s still in its infancy, it’s already wreaked a fair amount of havoc in ways both bad and otherwise (fact: AI was responsible for one of the most memorable films I saw last year, the YouTube short TERROR ABOVE THE SUNSET STRIP), and will almost certainly cause more damage in the coming years.
Hollywood mega-mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, whose knowledge of the movie scene far outpaces mine, predicted that over 90 percent of animation industry jobs will be lost to AI. This means that those of you currently working in that and related fields (i.e. filmmaking on the whole) would do well to emulate my journalist friend and take some kind of action, because sitting around handwringing about the “AI Apocalypse” clearly isn’t helping matters.
Dismal Disney
For a website devoted primarily to horror and cult media, a focus on Disney’s fortunes may seem uncool or even counterproductive. The unavoidable fact, however, is that Disney is Hollywood’s major trendsetter, having accounted for a reported forty percent of the box office takings of 2019 (the year before everything went to hell) and introducing many of the bad decisions—the insertion of divisive political content, the overreliance on sequels and reboots and the backing of an unpopular streaming service—that have brought the industry to its current sorry state.
Perhaps the most telling, and prophetic, of Disney’s 2024 failures was Marvel’s long-in-the-works BLADE reboot. By long-in-the-works I mean five years, as the project commenced back in 2019 and appears to have been cancelled in ‘24 (no official announcements have been made, but the film has disappeared from Disney’s upcoming release listings). What occurred during those five years? From what I understand there was a lot of creative dithering as scripts were written and rewritten, directors came and went and actors were announced and then discarded.
A similar fate appears to have befallen Lucasfilm’s STAR WARS sequel REY, which has likewise been in the works for some time yet can’t seem to make it past the script stage. Then there are those Disney films, such as SNOW WHITE and CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD, that made it to production but were subjected to years’ worth of reshoots and constantly shifting release dates (both films, for the record, are currently scheduled to be unveiled in early 2025). The last Disney product to undergo such a hellish post-production was THE MARVELS, and we all know what happened with that film.
Most Vital Cinematic Development
That would be the ascendancy of a format at which I’ve traditionally turned up my nose: fan films, which broke out in a major way in 2024. Perhaps it shouldn’t be surprising that the MAD MAX pastiche HOPE AND GLORY handily beat out the officially sanctioned FURIOSA, as HOPE AND GLORY, unlike FURIOSA, actually featured Max (which I’d say is a vital element in a MAD MAX movie) and didn’t last a numbing 2½ hours. Nor, given the quality of recent STAR TREK media, should we be too nonplussed that the fan made UNIFICATION, featuring flawlessly rendered CGI representations of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, proved to be the most memorable STAR TREK movie in quite some time.
My takeaway? That Hollywood really needs to do better, because talented amateurs are waiting in the wings.
Least Vital Cinematic Development
Sequels were the bane of Hollywood’s 2024 existence. So prevalent were they that virtually every type was represented: soulless cash-ins (VENOM: THE LAST DANCE, MOANA 2), ambitious gambles (DUNE: PART TWO, KINGDOM OF THE PLANET OF THE APES), decades-after-the-fact legacy follow-ups (TWISTERS, BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE), at least one batshit-crazy indulgence (JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX) and several prequels (THE FIRST OMEN, BEVERLY HILLS COP: AXEL F, etc.). Such an overreliance on what Roger Ebert once defined as “filmed deals” portends a great many things, none of them good—and to further the bad news, 2025 is already being called “the year of the sequel,” proving that bad habits die hard.
The Auteur Angle
At the opposite end of the sequel-obsessed Hollywood spectrum were the self-financed personal visions of Kevin Costner, with HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA, and Francis Ford Coppola, with MEGALOPOLIS. I commend them both, but also acknowledge that those films’ financial failures were not entirely unjustified.
For defiantly uncommercial passion projects like these to succeed the results must be exceptional, as was the case with Coppola’s APOCALYPSE NOW and Costner’s DANCES WITH WOLVES. Whatever you might think of MEGALOPOLIS and HORIZON (I, for the record, kinda liked the former but didn’t care at all for the latter), the “exceptional” designation applies to neither. This means that Coppola and Costner, for all their go-it-alone bluster, had the same core problem afflicting mainstream Hollywood: their films simply weren’t good enough.
YouTube Snafus
In a potent demonstration of the adage “That Which Giveth Can Also Taketh Away,” YouTube has dispensed with several interesting films it had previously hosted. YouTube has long been one of the most vital sources for obscure media from past years, which in 2024 included the heretofore impossible-to-find CAN’T STOP THE MUSIC TV promo MAGIC NIGHT from 1980 (complete with vintage commercials!).
Other must-see obscurities found on YouTube included the Miguel Bejo cult items LA FAMILIA UNIDA ESPERANDO LA LLEGADA DE HALLEWYN (1971) and BETO NERVIO CONTRA EL PODER DE LAS TENIEBLAS (1979), Annette Kasch’s rampaging penis monster classic THE SECRET LIFE OF SARAH SHELDON (2006) and Paul Bartel’s bizarre comedy SHELF LIFE (1993), which for reasons I wasn’t privy to were all dropped in ‘24. The problem was that in at least three of those cases YouTube was the only viewing source, so hopefully interested parties were able to view these films before they went away.
Favorite Publisher
My favorite “publisher” of 2024 wasn’t actually a publisher, but an individual: Joe E. Bandel, who personally translated and distributed several worthwhile German language texts—the epic fantasy GHOSTS IN THE SWAMP, the biography HANNS HEINZ EWERS: THE STORY OF HIS DEVELOPMENT, the horror novella THE WITCH OF SANLÚCAR, etc.—from the 1920s. I tend to be weary of self-published translations, but Bandel did a good job with material that in my view is simply too fascinating to be ignored, and anyway, a certain cliché about beggars not being choosers comes to mind.
Favorite Discoveries, Literary and Cinematic
THE EMBALMER
A cunning and perverse Italian made thriller that takes the guise of, and works best as, a dark character study, with a true performance for the ages by Ernesto Mahieux.
FAMINE ‘33
A powerfully stark and unforgiving dramatization of the Holodomar, or Artificial Famine, that afflicted Ukraine in 1932-33. Pleasant this film may not be, but necessary it definitely is.
LYCHEE LIGHT CLUB
A manga one-shot, involving perversion and psychosis amid a group of middle schoolers, that was, unbelievably enough, oriented toward young adults.
MIDORI-KO
The magnum opus of Japanese animator Keita Kurosaka, a 55-minute phantasmagoria offering further proof that any film with a heroine named Midori is well worth the attention of weird movie buffs the world over.
MONSIEUR ROBERT HOUDIN
A French TV biopic about the illusionist Robert Houdin, whose magic tricks are presented, intriguingly, as actual occurrences rather than the carefully wrought illusions they were.
NIGHT OF DELUSIONS
I’m amazed it took me this long to learn about this Phil Dickian mind-bender by Keith Laumer, a first class exercise in reality warpage in a dystopian setting.
TRANSFORMATION
Edmund Plante isn’t my favorite writer, but this body horror blowout, about a young woman undergoing all manner of gruesome transformations after encountering an alien something, is quite something else.
VIDEOSYNCRATIC
In which a British home video impresario writes, engagingly, about his experiences working at various Blockbuster Video UK outlets and running his own video store, in a book designed to resemble a VHS tape.
Remembering Those Who’ve Passed On
JIM ABRAHAMS (1944-2024) Screenwriter/Director: KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE, AIRPLANE!, POLICE SQUAD!, TOP SECRET!, RUTHLESS PEOPLE, SCARY MOVIE 4
ANOUK AIMEE
ANOUK AIMEE (1932-2024) Actor: LA DOLCE VITA, SODOM AND GOMORRAH, 8½, ONE NIGHT…A TRAIN
DOROTHY ALLISON (1925-2024) Actor: JOURNEY INTO THE UNKNOWN (TV), DR. JEKYLL & SISTER HYDE, A CRY IN THE DARK
JOHN ASHTON (1948-2024) Actor: EMERGENCY! (TV), WONDER WOMAN (TV), CODE R (TV), THE TWILIGHT ZONE (TV; 1985), KING KONG LIVES, THE TOMMYKNOCKERS (TV)
PAUL AUSTER (1947-2024) Novelist/Screenwriter/Director: IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS, LULU ON THE BRIDGE
LYNNE REID BANKS (1929-2024) Novelist: THE INDIAN IN THE CUPBOARD, THE FAIRY REBEL
JOHN BARTH (1930-2024) Novelist: THE END OF THE ROAD, GILES GOAT-BOY
TONY LO BIANCO (1936-2024) Actor: THE HONEYMOON KILLERS, GOD TOLD ME TO, THE TWILIGHT ZONE (TV; 1985), NIXON
MICHEL BLANC (1952-2024) Actor: THE TENANT, DREAM ONE, MENAGE, MONSIEUR HIRE, MERCI LA VIE, PROSPERO’S BOOKS
EDWARD BOND (1934-2024) Screenwriter: BLOW-UP, WALKABOUT
JOE CAMP (1939-2024) Screenwriter/Director: OH! HEAVENLY DOG
DABNEY COLEMAN (1932-2024) Actor: THE OUTER LIMITS (TV), THE PRESIDENT’S PLANE IS MISSING, BAD RONALD, ROLLING THUNDER, MODERN PROBLEMS, WARGAMES, CLOAK & DAGGER, JUMANJI (TV)
ROBERT COOVER (1932-2024) Novelist: SPANKING THE MAID, THE BABYSITTER
KENNETH COPE (1931-2024) Actor/Writer: X THE UNKNOWN, THE CONCRETE JUNGLE, ONE STEP BEYOND (TV), DEATH TRAP (1962), THE DAMNED (1962), NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT, JUGGERNAUT, DR. WHO (TV)
ELEANOR COPPOLA (1926-2024) Author/Director: NOTES, HEART OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER’S APOCALYPSE
Roger Corman
ROGER CORMAN (1926-2024) Producer/Director: THE BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES, DAY THE WORLD ENDED, IT CONQUERED THE WORLD, ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, NOT OF THIS EARTH, THE UNDEAD, WAR OF THE SATELITES, TEENAGE CAVE MAN, SHE GODS OF SHARK REEF, THE WASP WOMAN, A BUCKET OF BLOOD, THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, HOUSE OF USHER, LAST WOMAN ON EARTH, CREATURE FROM THE HAUNTED SEA, THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM, THE PREMATURE BURIAL, TALES OF TERROR, TOWER OF LONDON, THE RAVEN, THE TERROR, X: THE MAN WITH THE X-RAY EYES, DEMENTIA 13, THE HAUNTED PALACE, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH, THE TOMB OF LIGIA, THE TRIP, DE SADE, THE DUNWICH HORROR, BEAST OF THE YELLOW NIGHT, COCKFIGHTER, DEATH RACE 2000, THE EVIL, PIRANHA (1978), ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL, BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, GALAXY OF TERROR, SPACE RAIDERS, STRIPPED TO KILL, NOT OF THIS EARTH (1988), WATCHERS, FRANKENSTEIN UNBOUND
ALAIN DELON (1935-2024) Actor: PURPLE NOON, SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, THE SWIMMMING POOL, SHOCK TREATMENT (1973), MR. KLEIN, ARMAGUEDON, THE CONCORDE…AIRPORT ‘79, THE PASSAGE
NELSON DEMILLE (1943-2024) Novelist: THE SNIPER, THE CANNIBAL
Shannon Doherty
SHANNEN DOHERTY (1971-2024) Actor: THE SECRET OF NIHM, AIRWOLF (TV), ALF LOVES A MYSTERY, HEATHERS, JAILBREAKERS, MALLRATS, JAY AND SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK, BLOOD LAKE: ATTACK OF THE KILLER LAMPREYS
SHELLEY DUVALL (1949-2024) Actor/Producer: BREWSTER McCLOUD, 3 WOMEN, THE SHINING, TIME BANDITS, FRANKENWEENIE (1984), FAERIE TALE THEATRE (TV), THE TWILIGHT ZONE (TV; 1985), THE RAY BRADBURY THEATER (TV), TWILIGHT OF THE ICE NYMPHS, TALE OF THE MUMMY, THE FOREST HILLS
ART EVANS (1942-2024) Actor: SISTERS, DEATH WISH (1974), NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CLASS REUNION, CHRISTINE, TUFF TURF, FRIGHT NIGHT, RUTHLESS PEOPLE, WHITE OF THE EYE, DIE HARD 2, TRESSPASS, TALES FROM THE HOOD
Terri Garr
TERI GARR (1944-2024) Actor: BATMAN (TV), MARYJANE, STAR TREK (TV), HEAD, THE CONVERSATION, YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, FAERIE TALE THEATRE (TV), FIRSTBORN, AFTER HOURS, TALES FROM THE CRYPT (TV), SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH (TV), THE WEIRD AL SHOW (TV), BATMAN BEYOND (TV), GHOST WORLD
JOE FLAHERTY (1941-2024) Actor/Screenwriter/Producer: TUNNEL VISION, 1941, HEAVY METAL, GOING BERSERK, THE HITCHHIKER (TV), REALLY WEIRD TALES (TV), INERSPACE, BLUE MONKEY, BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II, MONSTERS (TV), LITTLE DRACULA (TV), MANIAC MANSION (TV), RUNAWAY DAUGHTERS, DINOSAURS (TV), FREDDY GOT FINGERED, PUPPETS WHO KILL (TV)
LOUIS GOSSETT, JR. (1936-2024) Actor: THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN (TV), J.D.’S REVENGE, LITTLE LADIES OF THE NIGHT, THE DEEP, JAWS 3-D, ENEMY MINE, FIREWALKER, THE PRINCIPAL, THE PUNISHER, TOY SOLDIERS, LEGEND OF THE MUMMY, THE DEAD ZONE (TV), LEFT BEHIND III: WORLD AT WAR, STARGATE SG-1 (TV), THE BATMAN (TV), WATCHMEN (TV)
BERNARD HILL (1944-2024) Actor: THE SPONGERS, DROWNING BY NUMBERS, MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON, THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS, THE LOSS OF SEXUAL INNOCENCE, THE SCORPION KING, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS, GOTHIKA, THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING, FRANKLYN, PARANORMAN
OLIVIA HUSSEY (1951-2024) Actor: BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974), H-BOMB, DEATH ON THE NILE, THE CAT AND THE CANARY, VIRUS (1980), TURKEY SHOOT, PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING, IT (TV), ICE CREAM MAN, BATMAN BEYOND (TV)
NORMAN JEWISON (1926-2024) Producer/Director: JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, ROLLERBALL (1975), ICEMAN, AGNES OF GOD
James Earl Jones
JAMES EARL JONES (1931-2024) Actor: DR. STRANGELOVE, END OF THE ROAD, THE UFO INCIDENT, STAR WARS, EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL, GUYANA TRAGEDY, THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, RETURN OF THE JEDI, CITY LIMITS, FAERIE TALE THEATRE (TV), ALLAN QUARTERMAIN AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD, PINOCCHIO AND THE EMPEROR OF THE NIGHT, FIELD OF DREAMS, GRIM PRAIRIE TALES, THE AMBULANCE, CLEAN SLATE, JUDGE DREDD, THE SECOND CIVIL WAR, STARGATE SG-1 (TV), REVENGE OF THE SITH, SCARY MOVIE 4, CLICK
QUINCY JONES (1933-2024) Composer: THE PAWNBROKER, THE DEADLY AFFAIR, IN COLD BLOOD, THE COUNTERFEIT KILLER, THE LOST MAN
ISMAIL KADARE (1936-2024) Novelist: THE PALACE OF DREAMS
GREG KIHN (1949-2024) Novelist: HORROR SHOW, SHADE OF PALE, BIG ROCK BEAT, MOJO HAND
The Amazing Kreskin
THE AMAZING KRESKIN (1935-2024) Mentalist/TV Host: THE AMAZING WORLD OF KRESKIN
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON (1936-2024) Actor: THE LAST MOVIE, PAT GARRETT & BILLY THE KID, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA, THE SAILOR WHO FELL FORM GRACE WITH THE SEA, VIGILANTE FORCE, THE LAST HORROR FILM, TROUBLE IN MIND, AMERIKA (TV), MILLENNIUM, BLADE, PLANET OF THE APES (2001), BLADE II, BLADE: TRINITY, THE JACKET
JON LANDAU (1960-2024) Producer: HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS, DICK TRACY, SOLARIS (2002), AVATAR, ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL, AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER
CHAD MCQUEEN (1960-2024) Actor/Producer: V (TV), FEVER PITCH (1985), NIGHTFORCE, MARTIAL LAW, RED LINE
PAUL MORRISSEY (1938-2024) Writer/Director: FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN, BLOOD FOR DRACULA, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
MARTIN MULL (1943-2024) Actor: WONDER WOMAN (TV), CLUE, O.C. AND STIGGS, TED & VENUS, LOIS & CLARK (TV), SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH (TV)
Alice Munro
ALICE MUNRO (1931-2024) Writer: OPEN SECRETS, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?, EDGE OF MADNESS
LYNDA OBST (1950-2024) Producer/Author: THE FISHER KING, BAD GIRLS, CONTACT, THE SIEGE, SLEEPLESS IN HOLLYWOOD, INTERSTELLAR, THE HOT ZONE (TV)
SYLVIA PINAL (1931-2024) Actor: VIRDINIANA, THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL, SIMON OF THE DESERT, SHARK!
BERNARD PIVOT (1935-2024) Journalist/TV Host: APOSTROPHES (TV), BOUILLON DE CULTURE (TV)
FRED ROOS (1934-2024) Producer: THE CONVERSATION, APOCALYPSE NOW, THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH, MEGALOPOLIS
Gena Rowlands
GENA ROWLANDS (1930-2024) Actor: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (TV), MACHINE GUN McCAIN, A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, OPENING NIGHT, TEMPEST (1982), FAERIE TALE THEATRE (TV), ANOTHER WOMAN, TED & VENUS
ALBERT S. RUDDY (1930-2024) Producer: COONSKIN, THE CANNONBALL RUN, DEATH HUNT, MEGAFORCE, BAD GIRLS
ANGEL SALAZAR (1956-2024) Comedian/Actor: WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAM, A STRANGER IS WATCHING, SCARFACE (1983), MANIAC COP 2
O.J. SIMPSON (1947-2024) Actor/Author: THE DREAM OF HAMISH MOSE, THE TOWERING INFERNO, THE CASSANDRA CROSSING, CAPRICORN ONE, IF I DID IT
DAVID J. SKAL (1952-2024) Author: SCAVENGERS, WHEN WE WERE GOOD, ANTIBODIES, HOLLYWOOD GOTHIC, THE MONSTER SHOW, ROMANCING THE VAMPIRE, DEATH MAKES A HOLIDAY
Maggie Smith
MAGGIE SMITH (1934-2024) Actor: OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR, MURDER BY DEATH, DEATH ON THE NILE (1978), CLASH OF THE TITANS (1981), EVIL UNDER THE SUN, THE SECRET GARDEN (1993), HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS, HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN
DAVID SOUL (1943-2024) Actor: STAR TREK (TV), JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, LITTLE LADIES OF THE NIGHT, SALEM’S LOT (TV), WORLD WAR III (TV), PARTNERS IN CRIME (TV), BLOODSTONE, ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS (TV; 1985), THE HITCHHIKER (TV), TERROR IN THE MALL, JERRY SPRINGER: THE OPERA
DONALD SUTHERLAND (1935-2024) Actor: THE CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD, DR. TERROR’S HOUSE OF HORRORS, DIE! DIE! MY DARLING!, ALEX IN WONDERLAND, JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN, DON’T LOOK NOW, END OF THE GAME, CASANOVA (1976), BLOOD RELATIVES, INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1978), MURDER BY DECREE, EYE OF THE NEEDLE, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, THE PUPPET MASTERS, DISCLOSURE, OUTBREAK, FALLEN, VIRUS (1999), SPACE COWBOYS, SALEM’S LOT (TV; 2004), FRANKENSTEIN (TV; 2004), AN AMERICAN HAUNTING, PUFFBALL, THE HUNGER GAMES, AD ASTRA, THE BURNT ORANGER HERESY
Tony Todd
TONY TODD (1954-2024) Actor: SLEEPWALK, PLATOON, COLORS, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1990), VOODOO DAWN, CANDYMAN, THE CROW, CANDYMAN: FAREWELL TO THE FLESH, BEASTMASTER III, WISHMASTER, CANDYMAN 3: DAY OF THE DEAD, FINAL DESTINATION, FINAL DESTINATION 2, THE PROPHECY: FORSAKEN, FINAL DESTINATION 3, MINOTAUR, HATCHET, THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (2006), THE MAN FROM EARTH, TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN, HASTCHET II, FINAL DESTINATION 5, SUSHI GIRL, CANDYMAN (2021)
ROBERT TOWNE (1934-2024) Screenwriter/Director: THE OUTER LIMITS (TV), LAST WOMAN ON EARTH, THE TOMB OF LIGEIA, CHINATOWN, THE YAKUZA, GREYSTOKE: THE LEGEND OF TARZAN, LORD OF THE APES
VERNOR VINGE (1944-2024) Novelist: GRIMM’S WORLD, THE WITLING, TRUE NAMES, THE PEACE WAR, MAROONED IN REALTIME, THE FIRE UPON THE DEEP, A DEEPNESS IN THE SKY, RAINBOW’S END, CHILDREN OF THE SKY
Carl Weathers
CARL WEATHERS (1948-2024) Actor: THE SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN (TV), TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED (TV), CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, THE BERMUDA DEPTHS, DEATH HUNT, PREDATOR, LITTLE NICKY, ALIEN SIEGE, TOY STORY OF TERROR, THE MANDALORIAN (TV)
PAULA WEINSTEIN (1945-2024) Producer: FEARLESS, THE HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, FLESH AND BONE, CLONED, THE PERFECT STORM, SALEM WITCH TRIALS, THE ASTRONAUT FARMER, BLOOD DIAMOND
M. EMMET WALSH (1935-2024) Actor: MIDNIGHT COWBOY, END OF THE ROAD, THE TRAVELING EXECUTIONER, ESCAPE FROM THE PLANET OF THE APES, GET TO KNOW YOUR RABBIT, AT LONG LAST LOVE, MIKEY AND NICKY, AIRPORT ‘77, STRAIGHT TIME, FAST-WALKING, BLADE RUNNER, BLOOD SIMPLE, THE HITCHHIKER (TV), CRITTERS, AMAZING STORIES (TV), HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS, THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR, TALES FROM THE CRYPT (TV), NARROW MARGIN, THE FLASH (TV), THE OUTER LIMITS (TV; 1996), THE LOTTERY (1996), TWILIGHT (1998), THE X FILES (TV), WILD WILD WEST, KNIVES OUT
PHILIP ZIMBARDO (1933-2024) Screenwriter: QUIET RAGE: THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT