Adam Green (born March 31, 1975) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor.
Background
Adam Green was raised in Holliston, Massachusetts and after finishing high school he graduated from Hofstra University in New York. Green’s very first job out of college was producing and directing local commercials for cable in the Boston area. Green made his feature film debut with the comedy, Coffee & Donuts, which was in part, based on his own life. Green founded ArieScope Pictures with Director of Photography, Will Barratt in 1997. He was the lead singer for the metal band, Haddonfield based out of Salem, Massachusetts at one time. He also worked as the DJ at the world famous Rainbow Bar & Grill on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. His upcoming films include the horror comedy, Chillerama, and the big budget children’s summer film, Killer Pizza which is being produced by Chris Columbus. On June 26, 2010, he was married in a private ceremony to actress Rileah Vanderbilt… read more
Adam Green (born March 31, 1975) is an American film director, producer, writer and actor.
Background
Adam Green was raised in Holliston, Massachusetts and after finishing high school he graduated from Hofstra University in New York. Green’s very first job out of college was producing and directing local commercials for cable in the Boston area. Green made his feature film debut with the comedy, Coffee & Donuts, which was in part, based on his own life. Green founded ArieScope Pictures with Director of Photography, Will Barratt in 1997. He was the lead singer for the metal band, Haddonfield based out of Salem, Massachusetts at one time. He also worked as the DJ at the world famous Rainbow Bar & Grill on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. His upcoming films include the horror comedy, Chillerama, and the big budget children’s summer film, Killer Pizza which is being produced by Chris Columbus. On June 26, 2010, he was married in a private ceremony to actress Rileah Vanderbilt by Green’s childhood idol turned best friend Dee Snider of the American heavy metal band Twisted Sister.
Feature film writing and directing career
Coffee & Donuts
Coffee & Donuts was a lighthearted comedy about two friends, Adam and Steve, who strive to get their morning radio program off of the small town air waves of Holliston and into the big time. Meanwhile, Adam struggles to get over a break up with his long-time girlfriend and back into the magnificent and horrendous world of dating. The film was made for only $400 by borrowing equipment from the cable advertising facility that he was working for at the time and by using friends and volunteers for everything from cast to crew. Green starred in the lead role while other parts were played by Steven C. DeWitt Jr., Katie Bove, and Jeff Davison. The movie was bought by Disney/Touchstone and developed as a sit-com for UPN in 2004. The pilot episode’s script was written by Adam Green himself and produced by Tom Shadyac’s Shady Acres. The show was eventually re-developed to be the first original series for the FEARnet cable TV network and re-titled “Holliston”. The series is written and directed by Adam Green and stars Green, Joe Lynch, Corri English, and Laura Ortiz. “Holliston” was filmed in the Fall of 2011. It will premiere on television in the Spring of 2012.
Hatchet
Green released Hatchet in 2006. The film, described as “old school American horror”, was about a group of tourists on a boat ride of the haunted Louisiana bayous where they learn the ghastly tale of local legend “Victor Crowley”; a hideously disfigured man who was killed accidentally with a hatchet by the hands of his own father. But when the boat sinks and the ghost story turns out to be real, the group tries urgently to flee the swamp with their lives. This film was instantly revered by horror fans as a “classic” and was even well received by mainstream critics, Harry Knowles of Ain’t It Cool News hailed the film saying, “Director Adam Green is the real deal – and Victor Crowley is a friggin fantastic horror icon waiting to be unleashed upon all y’all,” and included the film on his Top Ten films of 2006. The film starred Joel David Moore, Kane Hodder, Robert Englund, and Tony Todd.
Spiral
In 2007 Green released Spiral, which he co-directed with actor, Joel David Moore. The film was about an isolated telemarketer (Moore), whose dysfunctional closeness with his boss is lessened when an idiosyncratic new co-worker enters his life. But as he begins to draw his new friend’s portrait, troubling feelings from his past threaten to lead him down a path of annihilation.
Frozen
Green wrote and directed the deep-freeze thriller Frozen, which stars Kevin Zegers, Emma Bell and Shawn Ashmore. He world premiered the film at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The film was released in North American theaters on February 5, 2010 and received some of the best reviews a genre film has received in two decades. The NY Times said that Frozen “delivers maximum fright”, while Rex Reed of the NY Post wrote “Frozen is a brilliantly conceived, gut-wrenching horror film. I was so paralyzed with terror by this movie that I chewed a whole pencil in half watching it.”
Hatchet II
In December 2009 Green began casting the sequel to Hatchet which stars Kane Hodder and Danielle Harris. Filming began January 5, 2010 and wrapped at the end of February 2010. Green announced the film at the Sundance world premiere of his last project Frozen and gave fans the first glimpse at footage during the Creation Entertainment: Weekend of Horrors of May 2010 in Los Angeles.The cast did a special autograph signing at the San Diego Comic-Con International. —Wikipedia
