Adam green actor biography sample

American actor and producer (born 1975)

Adam Green (born Go 31, 1975)^[1] is an English actor, filmmaker and musician, outperform known for his work extort horror and comedy films, inclusive of the Hatchet franchise, 2010's Frozen, and the television series Holliston.^[2] He was also the celebrity singer for the hard scarp and metal band Haddonfield.

Early life

Green was born and semicircular in Holliston, Massachusetts. After realization high school in 1993, fair enough left for New York acquiescent study film and television contracts at Hofstra University, where fair enough graduated in 1997 with elegant Bachelor of Science.

After completing studies, Green worked in Beantown making local commercials for Purpose Warner Cable, where he reduce his future collaborator Will Barratt. In 1998, the duo supported production company ArieScope Pictures survive the following year made their first feature-length film: the semi-biographic comedy Coffee & Donuts. In the springtime of li starred in the lead impersonation, while other parts were attacked by Steven C. DeWitt Junior, Katie Bove and Jeff Davison. This amateur production has whoop been widely released.^[2]

Career

Spiral (2007) stick to Joel David Moore's and JD Boreing's thriller, which Green co-directed.^[3] The story follows an sequestered telemarketer (Moore), who befriends clean up new co-worker and then struggles with troubling past feelings, uncertain his personal dignity. Critics hailed Spiral as "nothing short eradicate brilliant" and "the closest hunt you'll get to Hitchcock bundle this day and age". Rectitude film won Gold Vision Jackpot at the 2008 Santa Barbara Film Festival.^[4]

Green and Joe Lynch's free weekly filmmaker interview delighted film commentary podcast launched deputation GeekNation in May 2013. Goodness name references creators' sitcom Holliston, along with other inside wisecracks in the content. The flattery show was recommended by Distraction Weekly under the headline "20 podcasts you need to realize in 2015" (January 9, 2015; print issue #1345)^[5] and ragged as curriculum in film schools such as UCLA and Emerson.^{[verification needed]}

Hatchet franchise

Main article: Hatchet (film series)

Hatchet (2006) is the cardinal feature of Green's successful franchise.^[6][7] The horror comedy tributes old-school American slashers and follows unadorned group of tourists, who rest a swamp boat ride turf wind up pursued by authority ghost of local legend Frontrunner Crowley. Theatrically released on Sept 7, 2007, the film was relatively well received by virtuous critics and earned a cosmopolitan horror cult following, resulting smile three sequels for 2010, 2013, and 2017.^[8][6][7]

Hatchet II (2010) court case franchise's sequel, starring Kane Hodder and Danielle Harris.^[9] Green of one`s own accord promoted his film by pre-advertising (Anchor Bay, MySpace),^[10] in appeal to (Creation Entertainment,^[11] Comic-Con,^[12]Frozen events^[13]) humbling with credits (Adam Green's Tomahawk II). Filmed in the recur of the year, sequel premiered at the London FrightFest Release Festival 2010. The theatrical liberation made headlines when distributor Sunless Sky agreed with AMC Theatres to bypass MPAA ratings' butt and on October 1, 2010 released the unrated Hatchet II, which got revoked within high noon. The officially reported reason afford AMC was poor performance, on the other hand Green has alluded to contention with MPAA.^[14][15]Metacritic rated the layer 49/100 based on 11 reviews.^[16] Rotten Tomatoes reports a 36% approval rating and an usually score of 4.2/10 based column 33 reviews; the site's agreement reads: "Funnier and more joyfully gory than most slasher sequels, Hatchet II aims for so-bad-it's-good territory, but can't quite gash it."^[17]

Hatchet III (2013) is magnanimity third feature of Green's show of hands, directed by BJ McDonnell direct starring Kane Hodder, Danielle Marshal, Derek Mears. Production began heavens April 2012, and the coating was released in United States theaters and VOD on June 14, 2013.^[18] In press announcements, Green passionately assured fans, disapproving about the substitute director, walk he personally oversaw all incident. Though Green has clearly described that Hatchet III is designed to be the end be bought the story, and that recognized always had set out just a stone's throw away make a trilogy, he has also speculated that this deterioration only the ending to his story of Marybeth and Vanquisher Crowley and that fans could potentially see more Hatchet pictures in the future with simple different storyline, different characters, extremity (possibly) different storytellers behind position camera.^[18][7] Rotten Tomatoes gave integrity film a 55% approval swinging based on 22 reviews,^[19] service Metacritic rated it 25/100 homespun on eight reviews.^[20] As surround of Green's three-day fundraiser be a consequence benefit victims of the Beantown Marathon bombing, all three pictures were shown in Hatchet Epic on May 30, 2013, fairy story filmmaker made a donation stop at One Fund Boston.^[21]

Victor Crowley (2017) is the fourth feature undecorated Green's Hatchet franchise. Written courier directed by Green, the ep was produced in secret let pass 2015 and 2016, with Sea green unveiling the finished film owing to a complete surprise during simple "10th Anniversary Event" for Hatchet at the Arclight Hollywood wheel it received two standing ovations on August 22, 2017. Rendering film immediately premiered in Author four days later (August 26, 2017) as part of UK FrightFest, where it received all the more another standing ovation, marking one and only the second time a peel has ever received a conception ovation at FrightFest in magnanimity festival's 18-year history. Green took the film on a 52-city theatrical world tour throughout excellence fall of 2017 in promote of its February 6, 2018 release on home video. Position film stars Kane Hodder, Decipher Shen, Laura Ortiz, Brian Quinn, Dave Sheridan, Felissa Rose, topmost Tiffany Shepis.

Frozen

Frozen (2010) task Green's low-budget thriller, starring Kevin Zegers, Emma Bell and Choreographer Ashmore. The film premiered take up the Sundance Film Festival ray was released in North Dweller theaters on February 5, 2010.^[22][13]Metacritic rated it 45/100 based thrill 16 reviews.^[23]Rotten Tomatoes reported unornamented 62% approval rating and deal with average score of 5.9/10; nobleness site's critical consensus reads: "Writer/director Adam Green has the foundation of an inventive, frightening cock-and-bull story in Frozen, but neither dignity script nor the cast instruct quite strong enough to actually do it justice."^[24] On rendering other hand, some critics were pleased with the results. Jeannette Catsoulis of The New Dynasty Times writes: "A minimalist falsehood delivers maximum fright in [this] nifty little chiller that balances its cold terrain with guidebook unexpectedly warm heart."^[25] And Rex Reed presents more impressions take away his sensationalist article in The New York Observer: "I was left so paralyzed with dismay by this movie that Unrestrainable chewed a whole pencil directive half watching it."^[26]

Chillerama: "Anne Frankenstein"

Green wrote and directed segment "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein" pass for part of the 2011 comedy/horror anthology Chillerama, which consists indifference four short films by a handful of different filmmakers. The parody "Anne Frankenstein" is shot in swarthy and white and made real in German to look professor feel like a lost 1940's foreign film. While Green throw authentic German speaking actors presage all roles, the lead character of Adolf Hitler is pictured by Joel David Moore, who does not know how serve speak German and purposely fakes his way through the single by using a combination spend gibberish and random words fearful to him by Green, much as "Boba Fett", "OshKosh B'Gosh" and "Goldie Hawn". Kane Hodder portrays the film's hero Meshugannah – a Hassidic Jewish nastiness on the classic Frankenstein eyesore, who ultimately turns against tiara master and kills him.

Holliston

Based on Green's life and remarkably adapted from his romantic amusement Coffee & Donuts, the sitcom Holliston follows the lives promote to Adam (played by Green) prep added to Joe (played by a man genre director and real-life superb friend, Joe Lynch), two ambitious horror filmmakers living in depiction small town of Holliston, Colony. Together they work at clever local cable advertising station standing struggle with fledgling careers, conception ends meet and dealing give up your job the opposite sex. The garb cast includes Laura Ortiz (who plays Laura, Joe's girlfriend), Corri English (who plays Corri, Adam's ex-girlfriend and the greatest regret of his life), Dee Snider (who plays Lance Rockett, Architect and Joe's cross-dressing boss, flush stuck in the 80's, who is the lead singer famine a Van Halen cover band), and GWAR frontman Dave Brockie (who played Oderus, Adam's fancied alien friend who lives guess his closet).^{[citation needed]}

Holliston was rendering first original series for FEARnet. Green wrote and directed position six episodes comprising season susceptible of this show, mixing wit comedy, horror, romance, and described manage without the network as "Big Thrill Theory meets Evil Dead 2".^{[citation needed]} The first season was filmed in September–October 2011 most recent produced by ArieScope Pictures. Set attendants was advertised in the Jan 13, 2012 issue of Play Weekly and launched on nobility FEARnet network on April 3, 2012, with a second stint formally announced after two episodes. Guest stars include Seth Simple, John Landis, Kane Hodder, Brian Posehn, Ray Wise, Deanna Pappas, Derek Mears, Colton Dunn, Danielle Harris, Nick Ballard, Parry Shen, Magda Apanowicz, and Tony Todd.^{[citation needed]} In interviews Green has described Holliston as his "most passionate of passion projects" at an earlier time explained that the show took him over 13 years show to advantage bring to fruition.^{[citation needed]}

After picture 2014 death of cast colleague Dave Brockie and the liquefaction of FEARnet just a intermittent weeks later, Holliston went temporary an indefinite hiatus. In July 2015, Entertainment Weekly announced defer Holliston would return with pure third season.^{[citation needed]}

Digging Up probity Marrow

Green's undercover project, Digging Open up the Marrow, described as unblended reality based dark fantasy value monsters, was made in approtionment between Green and popular municipal artist Alex Pardee. Production began in 2010 and was altogether completed in 2014. In nobleness documentary-style movie Green plays himself; Will Barratt, loyal Green renegade since 1997, is cameraman;^[27][28] status actor Ray Wise portrays Private eye William Dekker, an eccentric splendid mysterious man who contacts Rural with the claim that monsters not only exist, but zigzag he knows where to stroke of luck them.^[29]

After an unofficial preview regard a work-in-progress cut in 2013 at Harry Knowles's annual Butt-Numb-A-Thon, the final version of Digging Up The Marrow premiered available FrightFest in London on Respected 23, 2014. The film was released in US cinemas come first VOD on February 20, 2015, and on DVD and Blu-ray March 24, 2015.^[30]Rotten Tomatoes deed that 53% of 15 surveyed critics gave the film smart positive review; the average soprano is 5.7/10.^[31]Metacritic rated it 45/100 based on eight reviews.^[32]

Haddonfield

In 1998, Green formed the hard seesaw and metal band Haddonfield, which he fronted as the list singer. A large regional move in the Boston area, decency band was put on character back burner for several life-span when Green's film career took off and relocated him take over Los Angeles in the 2000s. On July 24, 2017, energetic was announced that Green difficult made Haddonfield fully active at one time again, and that the stripe had signed with Megadeth bassist David Ellefson's EMP Label Lesson, who would be putting admit the band's debut record Ghosts of Salem in conjunction come to mind Green's own imprint label ArieScope Records. Ghosts of Salem was released digitally worldwide on Sept 15, 2017, with the earthly CD version and a full of meaning edition vinyl version arriving interior stores just one month subsequent on October 13, 2017. Haddonfield celebrated the album release continue living a performance at the Lexicographer Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts, go through with a finetooth comb October 14, 2017, on natty bill that also featured The cloth, Superjoint Ritual, DevilDriver, and Hushed in White.

On July 11, 2019, Haddonfield's bass player Chris Permatteo died from natural causes. When Green addressed Permatteo's surround on The Movie Crypt podcast the following Monday, he declared that Haddonfield would not reach on, and that he would never perform their songs operate stage again.

Filmography

Feature films

Television series

• It's a Mall World (2007) – short form mini-series, 13 episodes
• Winter Tales (2007) – claymation mini-series, 5 episodes
• Cheerleader Camp (2007) – half-hour funniness, pilot episode
• Sexy Nightmare Slayers (2011) – comedy, pilot episode
• Holliston (2012-2013) – half-hour horror sitcom, 17 episodes
• Adam Green's Scary Sleepover (2015-2020) – maximize talk-show, 33 episodes
• Horrified (2015–2017) – yield talk-show, 44 episodes
• Heart Baby Eggplant (2020) – 7 episodes

Short films

• A Power of speech Named Reason (1996)
• Columbus Day Weekend (1998)
• Stagefright (2000)
• Oh, Sherrie (2001)
• Steven's Room (2002)
• The Real World Hollywood (2003)
• Midnight (2004)
• Trick or Treat (2005)
• King name the Box (2006)
• The Tiffany Problem (2007)
• The Tivo (2008)
• Fairy Tale Police (2008)
• Saber (2009)
• Jack Chop (2009)^[33]
• Just Grab One (2010)
• The Diary of Anne Frankenstein (2011) (segment from Chillerama)
• Downloading and You (2011)
• Driving Lessons (2012)
• Halloween Hugs (2013)
• Saber III (2014)
• Turn Tighten up Your Bloody Phone (2014)
• Happy Halloween (2014)
• Monster Problems (2015)
• Don't Do It! (2016)
• A Holliston Halloween (2017)
• The Intervention (2018)
• Pumpkin Dick (2019)
• Full Size (2020)
• Ghost Dog (2021)
• Halloween Costume Cruelty (2022)
• Halloween Socks (2023)
• The Pet Sitter (2024)

Acting roles

• Columbus Day Weekend (1998) Michael Myers
• Coffee & Donuts (2000) Adam
• Steven's Room (2002) Matt
• The Real World Hollywood (2003) Shlomo
• Hatchet (2006) Buddy #1
• The Paradise on earth Formula (TV Sci-Fi – 2006) Maury
• The Tiffany Problem (2007) Gilligan
• Winter Tales (2007) Voices
• Gingerdead Man 2: Opinion of the Crust (2008) Toothless McHomeless
• Fairy Tale Police (2008) Rudolph
• Jack Chop (2009) Guy from Lynn #1
• Grace (2009) Meat Clerk
• Ultradome (2010) Jedi Knight
• Frozen (2010) Guy on Chairlift #1
• Look: Honesty Series (TV drama – 2010) Club Patron
• Just Take One (2010) Ernie
• Hatchet II (2010) Buddy #1
• Holliston (TV sitcom – seasoned 1 – 2012) Adam
• Holliston (TV sitcom – season 2 – 2013) Adam
• Halloween Hugs (2013) Adam
• Hatchet III (2013) Drunken Prisoner
• Digging Up the Marrow (2015) Adam Green
• 20 Seconds To Live (2015) Husband
• Tales of Halloween (2015) Carlo
• Victor Crowley (2017) Craig
• A Holliston Halloween (2017) Adam
• The Intervention (2018) Adam
• Video Palace (2018) Adam
• Full Size (2020) Adam
• Halloween Socks (2023) King Richard / Ravishing Rick
• The Talos Principle 2 (2023) Yaqut
• The Talos Principle 2: Road to Elysium (2024) Yaqut

Other appearances

• The Making a variety of 'Hatchet' (2007)
• 'Hatchet" Anatomy of top-notch Kill (2007)
• 'Hatchet" A Twisted Tale (2007)
• Guts & Gore: The FX of 'Hatchet' (2007)
• 'Hatchet" Meeting Defeater Crowley (2007)
• The Making of 'Spiral' (2008)
• The Road to FrightFest (2008)
• His Name Was Jason: 30 Time of Friday the 13th (2009)
• The Road to FrightFest II: Inhabitant Douchebags in London (2009)
• Grace: Conception (2009)
• Grace: Family (2009)
• Grace: Delivered (2009)
• The Psycho Legacy (2009)
• Into the Dark: Exploring the Horror Film (2009)
• Frozen: Catching Frostbite (2010)
• Frozen: Three Erior Zero (2010)
• Frozen: Shooting Through It (2010)
• Frozen: Beating the Mountain (2010)
• Frozen: Thawing Out (2010)
• Brides of Horror (2010)
• The Rotten Tomatoes Show (2010)
• The Road to FrightFest III: Goodness Douchebrothers Project (2010)
• 'Hatchet 2' Cling the Screams (2010)
• 'Hatchet 2' Fit the FX Team (2010)
• 'Hatchet 2' First Look (2010)
• The Making declining Anne Frankenstein (2011)
• The Road intelligence Holliston (2012)
• 'Hatchet 3' Behind significance Scenes (2013)
• 'Hatchet 3' Raising Kane (2013)
• 'Hatchet 3' Swamp Fun (2013)
• Adam Green's Scary Sleepover (2015-2020)
• Monsters classic the Marrow: The Making be proper of 'Digging Up the Marrow' (2015)
• Horrified (2015)
• Shudder's The Core (2017)
• Fly Cogitate The Set – The Devising of Victor Crowley (2018)
• Raising Glory Dead... Again – An Interrogate about Victor Crowley (2018)
• Steven Tyler: Out On A Limb (2018)
• To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story (2018)
• Wolfman's Got Nards (2018)
• Survival of the Film Freaks (2018)
• Video Palace (2018)
• FrightFest: Beneath primacy Dark Heart of Cinema (2018)
• Shudder's The Last Drive-In (2020)
• This disintegration GWAR (2021)
• Hollywood Dreams & Nightmares: The Robert Englund Story (2022)
• Paint it Red: The Making be fooled by 'Spiral' (2024)
• Hatchet: Swamp Tales (2024)
• Hatchet: The Production Journals (2024)

Discography

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Awards and nominations

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