John McNaughton
Highest Rated: 92% Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (1991)
Lowest Rated: 29% Condo Painting (1999)
Birthday: Jan 13, 1950
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA
A talented independent filmmaker whose bleak, chilling vision of society has garnered him considerable critical praise, John McNaughton has also engendered at least an equal amount of controversy. His first feature film, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer," was not distributed for over three years after its completion in 1986--partly as a result of its precarious financial provenance, but also because of its relentless but nonjudgmental examination of the pathology of the real-life Henry Lee Lucas. "Henry" was the first film over which a production company sued the MPPA for the X rating it received. Eventually, McNaughton's powerful and insightful if extremely unnerving film, with its final shooting cost of only $120,000, became a cult hit on the art house circuit and even made the annual "Top 10" lists of TIME, USA TODAY and the CHICAGO TRIBUNE.
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Filmography
Movies
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Kill Her Goats | Executive Producer | - | 2023 |
71% |
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The Harvest | Director | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | American Storytellers | Unknown (Character) | - | 2003 |
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Speaking of Sex | Director | - | 2001 |
40% |
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Lansky | Director | - | 1999 |
29% | No Score Yet | Condo Painting |
Director, Writer |
$5.4K | 1999 |
64% |
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Wild Things | Director | $29.8M | 1998 |
70% |
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Normal Life | Director | $9.6K | 1996 |
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Girls in Prison | Director | - | 1994 |
78% |
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Mad Dog and Glory | Director | $10.7M | 1993 |
30% |
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The Borrower | Director | - | 1991 |
92% |
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Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll | Director | - | 1991 |
89% |
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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1986 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last Drive-In With Joe Bob Briggs | Director | 2019 |
63% | 78% | Masters of Horror | Director | 2006 |
No Score Yet | 72% | Without a Trace | Director | 2003 |
50% | No Score Yet | Push, Nevada | Director | 2002 |