Alan Ormsby

Writer, director and make-up effects artist 'Alan Ormsby' (qv) was born on December 14, 1943. He was a drama student at the University of Florida, where he met future director 'Bob Clark' (qv). The pair first collaborated on a tongue-in-cheek low-budget zombie horror flick, _Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things (1972)_ (qv). Ormsby not only co-wrote the script and did the effectively ghoulish zombie make-up, but also gave a deliciously hammy performance as the arrogant and obnoxious theater group leader Alan. Ormsby's then-wife Anya Liffey portrayed another group member; the couple later divorced in 1981.Ormsby and Clark followed this film with _Deathdream (1974)_ (qv) (aka Deathdream), which was a supremely potent and unnerving Vietnam-era variant on the classic short story "The Monkey's Paw." Next up for Ormsby was the excellent _Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)_ (qv), which he co-wrote, co-directed and handled make-up effects chores on along with a then-unknown 'Tom Savini' (qv) (Savini also worked with Ormsby on the make-up effects for Deathdream). _Deranged: Confessions of a Necrophile (1974)_ (qv) was a macabre and blackly humorous rural psycho item inspired by the notorious exploits of serial killer 'Ed Gein' (qv). Other movies Ormsby has penned screenplays for are the delightful teen coming-of-age winner _My Bodyguard (1980)_ (qv), Paul Schrader's sexy and stylish _Cat People (1982)_ (qv) remake, the uproariously raunchy _Porky's II: The Next Day (1983)_ (qv), and the exciting action opus _The Substitute (1996)_ (qv).Ormsby did the genuinely creepy zombie make-up for the spooky Nazi horror doozy _Shock Waves (1977)_ (qv) and wrote Movie Monsters, a book on makeup effects, in 1976. He created the popular doll Hugo: Man of a Thousand Faces, which was featured in both _The Uncle Floyd Show (1974)_ (qv) and _The Pee-Wee Herman Show (1981)_ (qv). He co-wrote and directed the entertaining film-within-a-film segments for the hugely enjoyable slasher send-up _Popcorn (1991)_ (qv). He is currently married to actress 'Hilarie Thompson' (qv) and has two sons.::woodyanders