Tag: Richard Matheson

The Legend Of Hell House Script

Script by:Richard Matheson (Novel), Richard Matheson (Screenplay)
Directed by:John Hough
Year:1973
IMDb:tt0070294

Plot:A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
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The Incredible Shrinking Man Script

Script by:Richard Matheson (Novel), Richard Matheson (Screenplay), Richard Alan Simmons (Screenplay)
Directed by:Jack Arnold
Year:1957
IMDb:tt0050539

Plot:While on a boating trip, Scott Carey is exposed to a radioactive cloud. Nothing seems amiss at first, but several months later Scott realizes that he's shrunk in height by several inches. He sees a doctor, who admits that he's baffled. As Scott continues to shrink, decreasing to three feet tall, he becomes bitter, and lashes out at his wife, Louise. He begins to fear a cure will never be found -- since even as he becomes a national sensation, he's still shrinking.
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Twilight Zone: The Movie Script

Script by:John Landis (Writer), George Clayton Johnson (Writer), Richard Matheson (Writer), Jerome Bixby (Original Story), Robert Garland (Writer), Rod Serling (Idea)
Directed by:John Landis, Steven Spielberg, George Miller, Joe Dante
Year:1983
IMDb:tt0086491

Plot:Four directors collaborated to remake four episodes of the popular television series 'The Twilight Zone' for this movie. The episodes are updated slightly and in color (the television show was in black-and-white), but very true to the originals, where eerie and disturbing situations gradually spin out of control. "A Quality of Mercy", "Kick the Can", "It's a Good Life", and "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".
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Real Steel Script

Script by:Richard Matheson (Story), Jeremy Leven (Story), John Gatins (Screenplay), Dan Gilroy (Story), Leslie Bohem (Screenplay)
Directed by:Shawn Levy
Year:2011
IMDb:tt0433035

Plot:Charlie Kenton is a washed-up fighter who retired from the ring when robots took over the sport. After his robot is trashed, he reluctantly teams up with his estranged son to rebuild and train an unlikely contender.
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House of Usher (1960) Script

Script by:Richard Matheson (Writer), Edgar Allan Poe (Story)
Directed by:Roger Corman
Year:1960
IMDb:tt0053925

Plot:After a long journey, Philip arrives at the Usher mansion seeking his loved one, Madeline. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Madeline and her brother Roderick Usher have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become catatonic. That evening, Roderick tells his guest of an old Usher family curse: any time there has been more than one Usher child, all of the siblings have gone insane and died horrible deaths. As the days wear on, the effects of the curse reach their terrifying climax.
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The Incredible Shrinking Woman Script

Script by:Jane Wagner (Screenplay), Richard Matheson (Novel)
Directed by:Joel Schumacher
Year:1981
IMDb:tt0082558

Plot:After being exposed to a bizarre mixture of household chemicals, Pat Kramer begins to shrink. This baffles scientists, makes parenting difficult, warms the hearts of Americans, and captures the attention of a group of people who want to take over the world. This evil group plots to kidnap Pat and perform experiments on her so that they can eventually shrink everyone.
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What Dreams May Come Script

Script by:Ronald Bass (Screenplay), Richard Matheson (Novel)
Directed by:Vincent Ward
Year:1998
IMDb:tt0120889

Plot:Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
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The Omega Man Script

Script by:John William Corrington (Screenplay), Joyce Hooper Corrington (Screenplay), Richard Matheson (Novel)
Directed by:Boris Sagal
Year:1971
IMDb:tt0067525

Plot:Robert Neville, a doctor, due to an experimental vaccine, is the only survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. The plague caused by the war has killed everyone else except for a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people calling themselves "The Family". The plague has caused them to become sensitive to light, as well as homicidally psychotic.
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Stir of Echoes Script

Script by:David Koepp (Screenplay), Richard Matheson (Novel)
Directed by:David Koepp
Year:1999
IMDb:tt0164181

Plot:After being hypnotized by his sister in law, Tom Witzky begins seeing haunting visions of a girl's ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around her.
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Somewhere In Time (1980) Script

Script by:Richard Matheson (Novel), Richard Matheson (Screenplay)
Directed by:Jeannot Szwarc
Year:1980
IMDb:tt0081534

Plot:Young writer Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to "Come back to me". Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. Becoming more and more obsessed with her, by self-hypnosis he manages to travel back in time—where he meets her.
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