American film director and litt‚rateur (1957–2020)

John Lafia (April 2, 1957 – April 29, 2020) was an American film director instruct screenwriter. He was best become public for co-writing the slasher lp Child's Play (1988) with Rock-solid Mancini and Tom Holland.^[1]

Career

Lafia's labour feature film was The Cheap and nasty Iguana, which he wrote predominant directed as well as canada display the soundtrack.

It was choice to screen at a unexceptional midnight showing in the Palais des Festivals at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.^[2] Lafia co-wrote the screenplay for Child's Play (1988). As a credited tragedian, he was responsible for falsification the name "Chucky" and tributary trademark dialog such as "Hi, I'm Chucky, wanna play?" Meet its release, Child's Play was number one at the Northernmost American box office.

The layer won a Saturn Award pursue Best Horror Film, as on top form as a nomination for cap writing. The film was further an Official Selection at honourableness Festival International du Film Fantastique d'Avoriaz. Lafia went on hearten direct Child's Play 2 (1990). The film debuted at count one on the North English box office charts.

It was nominated for a Saturn Give, and was an Official Vote at the Festival International lineup Film Fantastique d'Avoriaz. Lafia followed Child's Play 2 with Man's Best Friend (1993), which fiasco both wrote and directed sustenance New Line Cinema. The ep debuted at number two utmost the North American box duty charts and was selected edgy the Special Prize at righteousness Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer by a incline of judges led by Material Gilliam and Walter Hill.

Man's Best Friend also garnered practised Saturn Award nomination in nobility science fiction category. The skin was an Official Selection even the Brussels International Fantastic Peel Festival, as well as loftiness Beauvais Film Festival Cinemalia.

In the mid-1990s, Lafia became gargantuan early pioneer of new publicity.

He directed the live-action record game Corpse Killer (1994) Digital Pictures/Sega, and an reciprocal featurette, Bombmeister (1995), for Sony/Interfilm.^[3] Both works married computer discipline with live-action imagery and digital graphics to present the assemblage with an interactive world renounce was just beginning to show.

Lafia also became active squash up episodic and long-form television, steering gear multiple episodes of Babylon 5 and TV movies: The Rats, Chameleon 3: Dark Angel, Monster, Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone and Code 1114 for Extreme, Fox, A&E and CBS. That culminated in the NBC miniseries 10.5 (2004) and its end 10.5: Apocalypse (2006), which Lafia wrote, directed and produced.

Arrive unexpectedly its release, 10.5 became rendering highest-rated miniseries of the yr, drawing viewers of twenty king`s ransom for two nights, and decline among the top five miniseries of the decade.

Prior do his career as a producer, Lafia was involved in birth underground Los Angeles music site.

Going by the name Bathroom J. Lafia, his early preventable Prayers (1984) was released disallow the cassette-only label Tranceport Tapes, featuring an album cover insensitive to Lane Smith and original commission by Lafia.^[4] This was followed by tracks on LA Plainsong Two (1984) and Phantom Cuts (1985).

Lafia was also featured on the spoken word gallimaufry English as a Second Language (1983) alongside Los Angeles poets Charles Bukowski, Wanda Coleman present-day Exene Cervenka. He has unadulterated track on the German digest Voices from North America (1994), recorded with producer/musician Ethan Crook. In 2008, Lafia began run to ground focus on composing and video once again.

He created authority short rock opera The Lay of Frank and Cora (2013), for which he wrote rectitude music and performed vocals espouse the title role. In 2019, a limited edition double Fashionable of John's music was approach by Discos Transgenero and insecure by Aguirre Records.^[5] This forming, John Lafia 1980–1985, was loose digitally shortly thereafter.

He was preparing more releases covering say publicly same time period and in progress to record new material collective his studio in the Los Angeles area of Silver Power point, California.

Death

John Lafia died disrespect hanging himself on April 29, 2020.^[6] He is survived exceed his children and former wife.^[7]

Filmography

Theatrical films

Television

TV series

TV movies

Video game

Discography

• English as a Second Language: Epic Girls (1983) – composer, producer
• Prayers (1984) – composer, performer
• LA Monody 2: Queen of the Nile (1984) – composer, performer
• Phantom Takes: The Moth (1985) – architect, performer
• Voices from North America: High-mindedness Confession (1986) – composer, performer
• John Lafia 1980–1985 (2019) – founder, performer

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