A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
David Coleman has worked for over 20 years in Hollywood as a professional screenwriter. The talent roster he's been employed by reads like a Who's Who of the motion picture entertainment industry. Amongst those by whom Coleman has been employed include actor/producer Michael Douglas, producer Dino De Laurentiis, director Phillip Noyce, producer Hal Lieberman, and cult director J.P. Simon, as well as studios and production companies as diverse as Universal, Columbia, London Films and many others. Coleman is a graduate of the University of Southern California, where he majored in Filmic Writing. He has written extensively about films in such magazines as Cinefantastique, was the founder of the cult movie site BijouCafe.com, and has written "Ancient Lake," a horror fiction novel available from CryptoHaus Press. An avid reader and watcher of horror novels and films, Coleman has spent a lifetime of sleepless nights casting hurried glances over his shoulder. He lives in a small town in Texas with his wife and three children.
Director:
1985 Southern Shockers
Screenplay:
1985 Southern Shockers
1990 The Rift
Writer:
1985 Southern Shockers
1990 The Rift
1992 Cthulhu Mansion
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.