Spontaneous Combustion (1990)
Nomination Year: 2006
SYNOPSIS: Sam (Brad Dourif) has really bad headaches. His ex-wife's grandfather really likes him. A new nuclear plant is going online at midnight. And he's about to discover that his life up to this point has been a lie.
Sam's
real parents were part of a secret government experiment to test a radiation vaccine. They both died of spontaneous human combustion (or SHC) right after he was born.
Sam's life starts to spiral out of control when his latent flame powers
(!!) start to come out, and he even manages to fry somebody through the phone.
The closer he gets to uncovering the truth, the closer Sam himself comes to combusting.
Kevin Hogan
Smithee Award Nominations
 Oblivious |
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Dr. Persons, Keen Observer Dr Persons is leaving the studio. His technician (John Landis) is on fire on the other side of a big glass window. Does Dr Persons turn and look? Even though the orange glow is clearly visible reflected off the opposite wall? Of course not!
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| "WHAT?!" |
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Wait a Minute--Where Are Your Eyes? Sam stares into the fire, and has flashbacks ... to things that happened when he was in the womb.
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Directors
| Director |
Claim to Fame |
 Tobe Hooper |
director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and numberous other films in that vein (and gristle) |
Cast
| Actor |
Character |
Claim to Fame |
 Brad Dourif |
<Not Yet in Database> |
Famous creepy guy. Wormtongue in
The Lord of the Rings
movies
and Suder on "Star Trek:
Voyager." Also appeared in
Blue
Velvet, Dune,
Alien 4, and all of the
Child's Play movies (he is
the
voice of Chucky!). But best
known in his breakout role as Billy
Bibbit
in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest. |
| Cynthia Bain |
<Not Yet in Database> |
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| Jon Cypher |
<Not Yet in Database> |
Police chief on Hill Street Blues |
| William Prince |
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| Melinda Dillon |
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| Dick Butkus |
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ex-Chicago Bears linebacker |
| Dick Warlock |
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primarily a stuntman |
| John Landis |
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best known as director of such films as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Amazon Women on the Moon, Innocent Blood, and on, and on.... |
 George Flower |
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Nicknamed "Buck." From bums to
bartenders, guards to
background patients, he's a contender
for appearing in
more Smithee films than anyone else,
ever... Also wrote
The Bikini Carwash
Company. |
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