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Tom Holland

Tom Holland

Highest Rated: 83% Model Shop (1969)

Lowest Rated: 17% The Beast Within (1982)

Birthday: Jul 11, 1943

Birthplace: Poughkeepsie, New York, USA

Here's a clever genre filmmaker whose talent lies less in creating original material than in recycling old, but good ideas. Holland's screenplay for "Class of 1984" (1982) was a riotous, punked-out updating of "The Blackboard Jungle" (1955) as an action comic-book. "Cloak and Dagger" (1984) was a shrewd, quasi-Spielbergian take on "The Window," the 1949 noir sleeper about an imaginative little boy who cries wolf one time too many. His smart and witty screenplay for "Psycho II" (1983) helped make a particularly dreaded sequel into a pleasant surprise featuring classic characters and sets in new situations. As the writer-director of "Child's Play" (1988), Holland resuscitated the hoary device of an evil murderous doll to construct a surprise hit that inaugurated the three-picture "Chucky" franchise.

Highest rated movies

83% 46% Model Shop
62% 62% Psycho II 57% 94% A Place Among the Dead
42% 36% Hatchet II

Filmography

Movies

Credit
65% 78% King on Screen Self - 2022
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Timekeepers of Eternity Director,
Screenwriter
- 2021
57% 94% A Place Among the Dead TH (Character) - 2020
No Score Yet 38% Rock, Paper, Scissors Director - 2017
60% 43% Digging Up the Marrow Self - 2014
No Score Yet 10% Tom Holland's Twisted Tales Director,
Screenwriter,
Executive Producer
- 2014
42% 36% Hatchet II Bob (Character) - 2010
19% 31% Stephen King's Thinner Director,
Screenwriter
$15.3M 1996
50% 46% Stephen King's 'The Langoliers' Director - 1995
32% 19% The Temp Director $6.0M 1993
No Score Yet No Score Yet Two-Fisted Tales Director - 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Owl Unknown (Character),
Director
- 1991
No Score Yet 80% The Stranger Within Director - 1990
74% 65% Child's Play Director,
Screenwriter
$32.8M 1988
20% 55% Fatal Beauty Director $10.8M 1987
83% 76% Fright Night Director,
Screenwriter
- 1985
67% 56% Cloak and Dagger Screenwriter - 1984
62% 62% Psycho II Deputy Norris (Character),
Screenwriter
- 1983
17% 34% The Beast Within Screenwriter - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Josie's Castle Leonard (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 23% A Walk in the Spring Rain Boy (Character) - 1970
83% 46% Model Shop Gerry (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet Changes Roommate (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Young Lawyers David Harrison (Character) - 1969

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Behind the Monsters Self 2021
63% 79% Masters of Horror Director 2007
82% 90% Tales From the Crypt Director 1989-1990 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Hitchhiker Unknown (Character) 1987
No Score Yet 82% Amazing Stories Director 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Felony Squad LeRoy Baker (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet Combat! Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet 77 Sunset Strip Al Killian (Guest Star) 1964