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Dan O'Bannon

Dan O'Bannon

Daniel Thomas "Dan" O'bannon (September 30, 1946 – December 17, 2009) was an American motion picture screenwriter, director and occasional actor, usually in the science fiction and horror genres.

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Movies Made By Dan O'Bannon (32)

Alien: Romulus (2024)

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe. ...

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Alien: Monday (2024)

The crew of the Thanatos, a remote mining ship at the edge of the galaxy, discover the danger of undeclared cargo. ...

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Alien: Ore (2019)

When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, a hard-working miner of a planet mining colony is forced to choose between escape or defying management orders and fight for the safety of her family. ...

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Alien: Specimen (2019)

During the night shift in a colony greenhouse, a botanist does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have alarmed her sensitive lab dog. ...

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Alien: Alone (2019)

An abandoned crew member aboard a derelict chemical hauler is trying to keep her ship and herself alive. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life. ...

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Alien: Containment (2019)

Aboard a small escape pod, four survivors try to discover what caused the destruction of their spaceship. ...

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Alien: Harvest (2019)

The surviving crew of a damaged space harvester has a motion sensor as their only navigation tool leading them to safety, while a creature in the shadows terrorizes them. However, the greatest threat might have been hiding in plain sight. ...

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Alien: Night Shift (2019)

When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy. Near closing time, they are reluctantly allowed inside the colony supply depot where the trucker's condition worsens, leaving a young supply ...

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Alien: Covenant (2017)

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world. ...

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Shock Value: The Movie — How Dan O’Bannon and Some USC Outsiders Helped Invent Modern Horror (2014)

Image Archive archivist Dino Everett assembled a feature-length compilation of SCA student works from the late '60s and '70s. The compilation features recently uncovered and previously unseen student films by Dan O'Bannon and John Carpenter. • BLOOD BA ...

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Total Recall (2012)

Factory worker Doug Quaid takes a virtual mind-trip vacation with the Rekall company, opting for implanted memories of being a spy. When the procedure goes wrong, Quaid becomes a wanted man by the police and joins forces with a rebel fighter to stop the ev ...

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Prometheus (2012)

A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race. ...

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Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007)

After a horrifying PredAlien crash-lands near a small Colorado town, killing everyone it encounters and producing countless Alien offspring, a lone Predator arrives to "clean up" the infestation. ...

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AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

When scientists discover something near Antarctica that appears to be a buried Pyramid, they send a research team out to investigate. Little do they know that they are about to step into a hunting ground where Aliens are grown as sport for the Predator rac ...

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Alien Resurrection (1997)

Two hundred years after Lt. Ripley died, a group of scientists clone her, hoping to breed the ultimate weapon. But the new Ripley is full of surprises … as are the new aliens. Ripley must team with a band of smugglers to keep the creatures from reaching ...

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Bleeders (1997)

A man with an unknown disease travels to an island with his girlfriend where his relatives once lived, hoping to find a cure to his illness. Although his relatives were all thought to be dead, he finds them living underground. ...

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Screamers (1995)

SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078. On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy ...

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Aliens: Ride at the Speed of Fright (1994)

This short film combines footage from "Aliens" with new material. It played before and during a motion-simulation theme park ride in the mid-1990s. ...

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Alien³ (1992)

After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison doe ...

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The Resurrected (1991)

Charles Dexter Ward, a wealthy scientist, uses an ancient diary and human remains to begin a terrifying and bloody pursuit for immortality. ...

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Total Recall (1990)

Construction worker Douglas Quaid's obsession with the planet Mars leads him to visit Rekall, a virtual vacation company that manufactures memories. When something goes wrong during Quaid's memory implant procedure, his life turns upside down, leading him ...

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Aliens (1986)

Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial ...

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Invaders from Mars (1986)

A boy tries to stop aliens that have taken over his town and are brainwashing its inhabitants. ...

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Lifeforce (1985)

A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, commencing an apocalyptic descent into chaos. ...

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The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies. ...

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Blue Thunder (1983)

Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing an advanced and he ...

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Heavy Metal (1981)

The embodiment of ultimate evil, a glowing orb terrorizes a young girl with bizarre stories of dark fantasy, eroticism and horror. ...

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Dead & Buried (1981)

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 normally as locals in the small town. ...

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Alien (1979)

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks ...

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Dark Star (1974)

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence. ...

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Blood Bath (1969)

A disturbed man makes a few terrible decisions that lead to an unexpected bath. ...

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Good Morning, Dan (1968)

Set in the future of 2006, an old man forced into a daily routine by an automated system reminisces about his younger years. ...

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Movies Starring Dan O'Bannon (19)

AGFA Mystery Mixtape #1 (2020)

Unleashed from the video vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA), AGFA MYSTERY MIXTAPE #1 is a brand new compilation of the most electrifying found footage mayhem that you'll see this week. For our kick-off tape, we've curated an hour-long joyride ...

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Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

In 1974, Chilean-French director Alejandro Jodorowsky embarked on the quixotic project of adapting Frank Herbert's influential novel Dune (1969) for the big screen. After investing two years, and millions of dollars, the gigantic project ended in failure; ...

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More Brains! A Return to the Living Dead (2011)

Retrospective documentary about the making of the horror cult classic "The Return of the Living Dead. ...

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Let There Be Light: The Odyssey of Dark Star (2010)

Exploring the controversial story behind John Carpenter (Halloween & The Thing) and writer Dan O Bannon's (Alien & Return of the Living Dead) from first feature film. From its humble beginnings as a USC student film, to its modern day status as a cult mast ...

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Standing on the Shoulders of Kubrick: The Legacy of 2001 (2007)

Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey opened the door to all the films and filmmakers who followed it. Through interviews with directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack - as well as special effects professionals a ...

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Vision of a Future Passed: The Prophecy of 2001 (2007)

This documentary about "2001: A Space Odyssey" looks at some of the things that seemed fanciful in 1968, which don't seem quite as much anymore. ...

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In Search of Moebius (2007)

Documentary about Frenchman Jean Giraud, one of the most influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time and also one of the genre's best kept secrets. He achieved his greatest fame under the pseudonym/alter ego Moebius, and his artistic influ ...

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Moebius Redux: A Life in Pictures (2007)

French artist and author Jean Giraud is one of the most famous and influential comic strip illustrators and authors of all time. He achieved his greatest fame as Moebius - not so much a pseudonym as an alter ego. With his triple-split personality - Jean Gi ...

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The Beast Within: Making Alien (2003)

A behind-the-scenes look at the making of "Alien," the terrifying classic about a spaceship crew trapped with a hideous monster that's hunting them one by one. ...

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Dan O'Bannon: Crafting Fear (2003)

Documentary about Dead & Buried. ...

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The Alien Saga (2002)

In 1979, Alien burst onto the scene with a strong female lead in the form of Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) battling the ultimate biomechanical creature. The brilliant and terrifying result reinvented the horror and science fiction genres, creating one of the m ...

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The Alien Legacy (1999)

A behind the scenes look at the making of 'Alien' ...

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Area 51: The Alien Interview (1997)

A documentary about aliens and UFOs with re-enactments of alien interviews and video of a supposedly real video of an alien being interviewed by government officials. ...

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Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors (1986)

Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention. ...

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Dark Star (1974)

A group of scientists are sent on a mission to destroy unstable planets. Twenty years into their mission, they have to battle their alien mascot as well as a "sensitive" and intelligent bombing device that starts to question the meaning of its existence. ...

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Judson's Release (1971)

Dan O'Bannon stars in one of the first iterations of the classic "the babysitter and the man upstairs" urban legend that would go on to influence such films as "Black Christmas" (1974), "Halloween" (1978) and "When a Stranger Calls" (1979). ...

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Good Morning, Dan (1968)

Set in the future of 2006, an old man forced into a daily routine by an automated system reminisces about his younger years. ...

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