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Victor Salva is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 29 march 1958 at Martinez (USA)

Victor Salva

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Birth name Victor Ronald Salva
Nationality USA
Birth 29 march 1958 (66 years) at Martinez (USA)

Victor Ronald Salva (born March 29, 1958) is an American film director. He is best known for directing the films Powder and Jeepers Creepers.

Biography

Amateur de films d'épouvantes, Victor Salva commence à réaliser des courts-métrages à l'âge de douze ans. D'abord éducateur de jeunes enfants, il attire l'attention de Francis Ford Coppola grâce à son court-métrage Something in the Basement : Coppola devient alors le producteur du premier long-métrage de Victor Salva, le film d'horreur Clownhouse. Durant la postproduction du film, Victor Salva est arrêté et inculpé pour avoir abusé sexuellement de l'un de ses acteurs principaux, Nathan Forrest Winters, alors âgé de douze ans, avant et pendant le tournage. Ami de la famille Winters, Salva avait déjà fait jouer l'enfant dans Something in the Basement. Victor Salva, qui avait filmé son délit, plaide coupable, et reconnaît avoir procédé à d'autres attouchements sur des enfants en 1988. Il est condamné à trois ans de prison et libéré sur parole après quinze mois d'emprisonnement .

En 1995, le passé pédophile de Victor Salva refait surface à l'occasion de la sortie de Powder, produit par Walt Disney Pictures, quand sa victime s'exprime publiquement et appelle au boycott du film.

En 2001, le cinéaste obtient un succès commercial avec Jeepers Creepers, à nouveau produit par Francis Ford Coppola. Le film connaît une suite deux ans plus tard.

En projet depuis 10 ans, Jeepers Creepers 3 est officiellement annoncé en 2015, mais le casting est stoppé en mars 2016 à cause du passé pédophile du réalisateur . Finalement le film est sorti aux Etats-Unis le 26 septembre 2017.

Best films

Jeepers Creepers 2 (2003)
(Director)
Jeepers Creepers (2001)
(Director)

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Filmography of Victor Salva (12 films)

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Actor

Jeepers Creepers, 1h30
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck, Patricia Belcher, Eileen Brennan, Brandon Mychal Smith
Rating62% 3.1024453.1024453.1024453.1024453.102445
Trish Jenner and her brother Darry are traveling home from college for spring break. As they drive through the Nebraska countryside an old, rusty truck tries to run them off the road. The vehicle eventually passes them, and they later see the same truck parked next to an abandoned church with a man sliding what appears to be a body wrapped in bloodstained sheets into a large pipe sticking out of the ground. The man notices Trish and Darry watching him and attempts to run them off the road a second time.
Rites of Passage, 1h35
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dean Stockwell, James Remar, Jason Behr, Rondell Sheridan, Thomas G. Waites, Jaimz Woolvett
Roles Piano Player at Hotel
Rating59% 2.9502852.9502852.9502852.9502852.950285
The film begins with two recently escaped convicts — Frank (James Remar) and Red (Jaimz Woolvett) — approach a group of campers. The elder of the pair shoots and kills the campers with single rapidfire shots.
Clownhouse
Clownhouse (1990)
, 1h21
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Sam Rockwell, Victor Salva
Roles Radio Newscaster / Extra at Carnival (uncredited)
Rating54% 2.7117152.7117152.7117152.7117152.711715
The story follows Casey (Nathan Forrest Winters), a normal boy whose life is constantly influenced by his intense fear of clowns. His two older brothers, Geoffrey (Brian McHugh) and Randy (Sam Rockwell), are mostly disobliging. One night, the three boys are left alone when their mother visits relatives, so they decide to visit a local circus for a night of amusement, despite Casey's uncontrollable coulrophobia. Meanwhile, the local state insane asylum has sent a majority of the hospital's inmates to the carnival for therapy, but three psychotic mental patients break away from the group and kill three clowns, taking their makeup and costumes. While at the circus, Casey innocently visits a fortune teller despite Randy's better judgment.

Director

Jeepers Creepers 3, 1h40
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Meg Foster, Jonathan Breck, Stan Shaw, Joyce Giraud, Michael Papajohn, Ray Wise
Rating39% 1.9679151.9679151.9679151.9679151.967915
L'histoire prend place juste après la fin de Jeepers Creepers. La créature vient de s'envoler avec Daryl, et sa soeur Trish attend ses parents au commissariat. La police arrive sur place et encercle le camion du monstre. Ils y trouvent de nombreux corps sans vie et des pièges mortels pour quiconque s'en approche. Danny, chef de la police, décide de se lancer à la poursuite du creeper avec une équipe d'hommes qui ont tous des comptes personnels à régler avec la bête. Pendant ce temps, Addison qui habite chez sa grand-mère, doit faire face à la folie apparente de cette dernière qui a perdu son fils Kenny 23 ans plus tôt, disparu sur la route avec sa petite amie Darla, le soir du bal de promo. Kenny apparaît régulièrement à sa mère, c'est ainsi qu'elle sait qu'il est mort, puisque son corps n'a jamais été retrouvé. Seuls Daryl et Trish l'ont vu dans la cave de l'église qui a ensuite éte incendiée dans le premier opus. Kenny prévient sa mère que le creeper va venir récupérer quelque chose qui lui appartient et qui a été enterré devant la maison. Très vite, le monstre se met à nouveau en quête de proies pour terminer son cycle en ayant dévoré suffisamment d'âmes.
Dark House
Dark House (2014)
, 1h43
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Ghost films
Actors Tobin Bell, Lesley-Anne Down, Alex McKenna, Luke Kleintank, Zack Ward, Max Gail
Rating47% 2.3599252.3599252.3599252.3599252.359925
The film tells the story of Nick Di Santo (Kleintack), who is tormented by his ability to touch someone and see exactly how they will die. On his 23rd birthday, Nick is summoned by his mother (Down) to the asylum where she has been institutionalized since his childhood. Hoping that her request to see him is a sign of improvement, Nick is stunned by her revelation that the father he thought was dead is really alive, and that he may know the origin of Nick's terrible gift. Nick sets out to find his father with his best friend Ryan (Anthony Rey Perez) and girlfriend Eve (Alex McKenna). Every road they take on the journey leads them back to the same abandoned mansion - a house that only existed in Nick's childhood imagination, or so he thought. Finally succumbing to the will of the house, Nick becomes embroiled in a battle with a dark figure (Bell).
Rosewood Lane, 1h37
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Rose McGowan, Lauren Vélez, Lesley-Anne Down, Ray Wise, Rance Howard, Bill Fagerbakke
Rating46% 2.305942.305942.305942.305942.30594
The story follows Dr. Sonny Blake (McGowan), a radio talk show psychiatrist, when she moves back to her childhood home after her alcoholic father dies. Once back in her old neighborhood, she meets the local paperboy, a cunning, depraved sociopath who targeted her father and now targets her. When the boy starts calling her show and reciting eerie nursery rhymes, an unnerving game of cat-and-mouse begins. When the game escalates, she suddenly finds herself in an all-out war, one that forces her to redefine her ideas of good and evil, and has her fighting to stay alive.
Peaceful Warrior, 1h56
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Sports films, Gymnastique, Films about the Olympic Games
Actors Scott Mechlowicz, Nick Nolte, Amy Smart, Tim DeKay, Ashton Holmes, Paul Wesley
Rating72% 3.601013.601013.601013.601013.60101
Dan Millman is a university student as well as a locally famous gymnast who dreams of winning a National Championship competition. He suffers from restlessness, and on one occasion Dan attempts to compensate for the restlessness by running along streets before sunrise. At a car-service station, he encounters an old man who seems to know more about Dan's problem than Dan himself knows, whom Dan later nicknames "Socrates". Dan is unsettled by Socrates' knowledge; by the fact that Socrates had appeared in a nightmare as a faceless janitor, clad in mismatched shoes (by which he is identified in waking life), who sweeps up the pieces of Dan's shattered leg; and by the old man's extraordinary speed, agility, and coordination. As a result of his exposure to the last, Dan seeks to learn the secret behind it.
Jeepers Creepers 2, 1h40
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck, Eric Nenninger, Garikayi Mutambirwa, Nicki Aycox, Marieh Delfino
Rating57% 2.8542952.8542952.8542952.8542952.854295
Three days after the events of the first film, a young boy named Billy Taggart assists his father in erecting scarecrows throughout a corn field, when one of the scarecrows suddenly comes to life and attacks him. As his father, Jack Taggart Sr., and his older brother, Jack Jr., rush to his aid, the scarecrow drags Billy through the field before sprouting wings and flying off, leaving the Taggart family horrified.
Jeepers Creepers, 1h30
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Slasher
Themes Transport films, Serial killer films, Road movies
Actors Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck, Patricia Belcher, Eileen Brennan, Brandon Mychal Smith
Rating62% 3.1024453.1024453.1024453.1024453.102445
Trish Jenner and her brother Darry are traveling home from college for spring break. As they drive through the Nebraska countryside an old, rusty truck tries to run them off the road. The vehicle eventually passes them, and they later see the same truck parked next to an abandoned church with a man sliding what appears to be a body wrapped in bloodstained sheets into a large pipe sticking out of the ground. The man notices Trish and Darry watching him and attempts to run them off the road a second time.
Rites of Passage, 1h35
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dean Stockwell, James Remar, Jason Behr, Rondell Sheridan, Thomas G. Waites, Jaimz Woolvett
Rating59% 2.9502852.9502852.9502852.9502852.950285
The film begins with two recently escaped convicts — Frank (James Remar) and Red (Jaimz Woolvett) — approach a group of campers. The elder of the pair shoots and kills the campers with single rapidfire shots.
Powder
Powder (1995)
, 1h51
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Fantastic, Fantasy
Actors Sean Patrick Flanery, Jeff Goldblum, Mary Steenburgen, Lance Henriksen, Bradford Tatum, Brandon Mychal Smith
Rating66% 3.3030753.3030753.3030753.3030753.303075
Jeremy "Powder" Reed is an albino young man who has incredible intellect and is able to sense the thoughts of the people around him. Jeremy's brain possesses a powerful electromagnetic charge, which causes electrical objects to function abnormally when he is around them, as well as when he becomes emotional. The electrical charge also prevents hair from growing on his body. Jeremy's mother was struck by lightning while pregnant with him; she died shortly after the strike, but Jeremy survived. His father disowned him shortly after his premature birth, and he was raised by his grandparents. Jeremy lived in the basement and worked on their farm, never leaving their property and learning everything he knew from books. He is taken from his home when his grandfather is found dead of natural causes. Jessie Caldwell (Mary Steenburgen), a child services psychologist, takes him to a boys' home because he is now effectively a ward of the state.
Nature of the Beast, 1h31
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror, Crime
Actors Eric Roberts, Lance Henriksen, Brion James, Bob May, Sasha Jenson, Virgil Frye
Rating62% 3.1474553.1474553.1474553.1474553.147455
The story is set in Southern California and a close-up of a beeper halfway through the film reveals the action takes place in July 1993.
Clownhouse
Clownhouse (1990)
, 1h21
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Slasher
Themes Serial killer films
Actors Sam Rockwell, Victor Salva
Rating54% 2.7117152.7117152.7117152.7117152.711715
The story follows Casey (Nathan Forrest Winters), a normal boy whose life is constantly influenced by his intense fear of clowns. His two older brothers, Geoffrey (Brian McHugh) and Randy (Sam Rockwell), are mostly disobliging. One night, the three boys are left alone when their mother visits relatives, so they decide to visit a local circus for a night of amusement, despite Casey's uncontrollable coulrophobia. Meanwhile, the local state insane asylum has sent a majority of the hospital's inmates to the carnival for therapy, but three psychotic mental patients break away from the group and kill three clowns, taking their makeup and costumes. While at the circus, Casey innocently visits a fortune teller despite Randy's better judgment.
Purgatory
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Horror, Western
Actors Emilio Rivera, Matt Lanter, Taylor Nichols

A broken-down sheriff is forced to join forces with an obsessed Victorian vampire hunter to defeat an undead force consuming a small frontier town in 1892 New Mexico.
The Old Hag Syndrome
Directed by Victor Salva
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors MyAnna Buring, Dileep Rao, Sean Maher

As children, Rheanna and Annette are happy. However, after an evening of ghost stories and games with their friend Tara, what started as innocent fun soon turns into a nightmare. Rheanna, the youngest is murdered by the Old Hag Syndrome, leaving both Annette and her mother Pamela scarred. An older Annette, desperate to be closer to her mentally unstable mother, becomes an intern at the psychiatric hospital where her mother resides. After a number of paranormal encounters, some resulting in mysterious deaths, Annette becomes convinced that the Old Hag Syndrome is supernatural rather than psychological threat. The haunting and death of Pamela and the haunting of Tara's only daughter, pushes Annette to fight this creature before more lives are lost. As Annette is plunged into her own personal nightmare, the forces of evil conspire against her as she prepares to make her final stand, with the help of both hardened skeptic, Alex and the man of faith, Tumeric.