| November 11th, 2005 02:33 PM |
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| Gimme Shelter |
11.11.05
We are sad to report that the producer of the Halloween series, Mustafa Akkad, was killed in the bombings that took place at three Jordan hotels. His daughter was also killed in the attack. The horror industry will forever be grateful to him, and it's tragic to hear of such senseless deaths.
R.I.P. Mustafa Akkad - 1935 - 2005
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| November 11th, 2005 03:03 PM |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
Does anyone else see the irony in this?
Very sad. |
| November 11th, 2005 03:27 PM |
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| BILL PERKS |
quote:
Sir Stonesalot wrote:
Does anyone else see the irony in this?
Very sad.
MICHAEL MYERS REVENGE? |
| November 11th, 2005 03:48 PM |
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| Gimme Shelter |
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Moustapha Akkad, the Syrian-born filmmaker and producer of the Halloween horror movie franchise, died Friday from wounds sustained in the triple hotel bombings in Jordan. He was 75. His daughter, Rima Akkad Monla, 34, also was killed.
Akkad, who lived in Los Angeles, was in Jordan with his daughter to attend a wedding. He died in the Jordanian hospital where he was being treated.
The two were at the wedding celebration at the Radisson SAS Wednesday night when suicide bombers struck it, the Grand Hyatt and the Days Inn in downtown Amman, killing at least 59 people including the three attackers. Rima Akkad Monla, who lives in Beirut, Lebanon, was killed immediately.
Born in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in 1930, the eldest of eight siblings, Akkad gained fame as a director and producer in the Arab world and West. After finishing his secondary studies in Syria, he left for America in 1950 to study filmmaking, according to his sister.
He was best known for producing all eight Halloween films, starting with the 1978 Halloween directed by John Carpenter and starring then-unknown Jamie Lee Curtis. That movie - and the ones that followed - sparked the teen-slasher-horror genre that led to franchises including Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street.
Akkad also produced and directed The Message (1976), a film about Islam's prophet, Muhammad, and Lion of the Desert (1981), which tells the story of a Muslim rebel who fought against Italy's Second World War conquest of Libya. Both starred Anthony Quinn.
The Message was declared sacrilegious by a group of black American Muslims, who took hostages in three Washington, D.C., locations when the movie opened in the United States in March 1977, demanding it not be shown in America.
Akkad said he was baffled by the reaction to the movie, which he said cost $17 million to make. It also was nominated for an Academy Award for best original score.
"I did the film because it is a personal thing for me. ... Being a Muslim myself who lived in the West, I felt that it was my obligation, my duty to tell the truth about Islam.
"It (Islam) is a religion that has a 700 million following, yet it's so little known about, which surprised me. I thought I should tell the story that will bring this (history) to the West," he added.
Akkad said he turned to the horror genre because it was hard to raise money for religious-themed movies, according to a 1998 New York Times report.
Akkad is survived by three sons, Tarek, Malek and Zeido.
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| November 11th, 2005 04:33 PM |
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| mickmask |
Not ironic...just another sensless loss due to a sensless war.
What's ironic is reading this post TODAY.
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