Another style of comedy horror can also rely on over the top violence and gore such as in Dead Alive ( 1992 ), Evil Dead ( 1981 ), and Club Dread-such films are sometimes known as splatstick, a portmanteau of the words splatter and slapstick.

Takashi Miike launched a prolific career with titles such as Audition ( 1999 ), Dead or Alive ( 1999 ) and The Bird People in China ( 1998 ).

Peter Jackson's Braindead ( 1992 ) ( known as Dead Alive in the USA ) took the splatter film to ridiculous excesses for comic effect.

His son released his debut EP " Wanted Dead Or Alive " under the stage name " Bandit " adapting his father's pre fame rap flow.

* Leon ( Dead or Alive )

In 1961, Moore appeared in several big parts in movies and on television, including Bourbon Street Beat, 77 Sunset Strip, Surfside Six, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Steve Canyon, Hawaiian Eye, Thriller and Lock-Up.

However, in Dead or Alive, he becomes increasingly frustrated with the direction in which President Kealty is taking the country, although he is initially publicly silent.

* Dead or Alive ( 2010 )

Clark returns in Dead or Alive, in which he is part of a Rainbow team that successfully rescues all hostages taken by terrorists at the Swedish embassy in Libya.

* Dead or Alive ( 2010 )

The genre's popularity stagnated as games became more complicated and as arcades began to lose their audience to increasingly powerful home consoles near the end of the 1990s, though new franchises such as Dead or Alive, and the Soul series achieved success.

Tecmo released Dead or Alive ( in 1996 in Japanese arcades and 1998 on the PlayStation ).

The series again included titles important to the success of their respective consoles, the last released installment being Dead or Alive 4 for the Xbox 360.

In addition to Virtua Fighter and Tekken, the Soul and Dead or Alive franchises continued to release installments.

The upcoming fighting game, Dead or Alive 5, will be notable for making extensive use of destructible environments.

* August 5 – Pete Burns, British singer ( Dead or Alive )

That same year, however, Hauer starred as Nick Randall in Wanted: Dead or Alive as the descendant of the character played by Steve McQueen in the television series of the same name.

* Wanted: Dead or Alive ( 1987 )

* Killer: Dead or Alive, a 2006 thriller film

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* Vanishing Act ( 1959 )-Wanted: Dead or Alive

* Black Belt ( 1960 )-Wanted: Dead or Alive

* Jann Lee from Dead or Alive

In August 2010 the Dead Kennedys announced plans for a short East Coast tour.

The Dead Kennedys performed what appears to be their first new song in 24 years, " You're Such a Fake ", during their October 16, 2010, concert at the Rock and Roll Hotel in Washington, D. C.

The film was re-released in March 2010 as part of The Evil Dead Cross Country Tour, which began in the NuArt Theatre in West Los Angeles.

This resurgence led George A. Romero to return to his Living Dead series with Land of the Dead ( 2005 ), Diary of the Dead ( 2007 ) and Survival of the Dead ( 2010 ).

* The Dead of Winter Canadian Tour ( 2010 )

On May 25, 2010, the record company Zero Day Releasing released the CD They Won't Stay Dead!

The film and its successors spawned countless imitators that borrowed elements instituted by Romero: Tombs of the Blind Dead, Let Sleeping Corpses Lie ( film ), Zombi 2, Hell of the Living Dead, Night of the Comet, Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, Children of the Living Dead, and the video game series Resident Evil ( later adapted as films in 2002, 2004, 2007 and 2010 ), Dead Rising, and House of the Dead.

The film was theatrically released on October 14, 2010 According to Legend Films founder Barry Sandrew, Night of the Living Dead is the first entirely live action 2-D film to be converted to 3-D.

A collaborative animated project known as Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated was screened at several film festivals and was released onto DVD on July 27, 2010 by Wild Eye Releasing.

The island is mentioned in the novels The Enemy by Desmond Bagley ( 1977 ), Sea of Death by Richard P. Henrick ( 1992 ), The Fist of God by Frederick Forsyth ( 1994 ), Quantico by Greg Bear ( 2005 ), The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde ( 2005 ), Forbidden Island by Malcolm Rose ( 2009 ), And then you die by Iris Johansen ( 1998 ), The Island by R J Price ( better-known as the poet Richard Price ) ( 2010 ) and The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin ( 2011 ).

* Drop Dead Diva ( 2010 )

* Call of Duty: Black Ops ( 2010 ): The events of Call of the Dead occur in March.

The flow rate of the Jordan River once was 1. 3 billion cubic metres per year ; as of 2010, just 20 to 30 million cubic metres per year flow into the Dead Sea.

On publication of the latter, Poirot was the only fictional character to be given an obituary in the New York Times ; 6 August 1975 " Hercule Poirot is Dead ; Famed Belgian Detective ".

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

It shares plot elements with The Evil Dead and also stars Bruce Campbell and Ellen Sandweiss, although with Sandweiss as the main character.

* The Walking Dead television series's character Edwin Jenner, a doctor affiliated with Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, is an homage to Edward Jenner.

This was, at least partially, a reference to a scene in the original A Nightmare on Elm Street where the character Nancy Thompson ( portrayed by Heather Langenkamp ), watches the original Evil Dead on a television set in her room.

* Frank West, main character of Capcom's Dead Rising game

The character Abraham Reyes in the video game Red Dead Redemption is based on Madero.

Earnest in tone in comparison to its self-consciously hip and ironic predecessors, Dead Man was thematically expansive and of an often violent and progressively more surreal character.

In the 2008 episode " Forest of the Dead ", River Song ( a character whose timeline intersects with the Doctor in reverse order ) says to the Doctor that she knows he would be able to open the TARDIS doors with a snap of his fingers.

Owain is a recurring character in the Brother Cadfael series of novels by Ellis Peters, often referred to, and appearing in the novels Dead Man's Ransom and The Summer of the Danes.

The character of Bishop Archer is loosely based on the controversial, iconoclastic Episcopal Bishop James Pike, who in 1969 died of exposure while exploring the Judean Desert near the Dead Sea in the West Bank.

1937 ; libretto by composer, adapted from " Lulu " plays of Frank Wedekind under # Germany | Germany above ); Korngold, Erich Wolfgang: Die tote Stadt ( The Dead City ; libretto by composer and Paul Schott ; actor Fritz banters and sings in the guise and costume of Pierrot — an ironic counterpart to the lovelorn main character, Paul ).

In a commentary track for the 20th Anniversary audiobook edition of the novel, as well as in the 1991 Author's Definitive Edition, Card stated that Ender's Game was written specifically to establish the character of Ender for his role of the Speaker in Speaker for the Dead, the outline for which he had written before novelizing Ender's Game.

The symbolist novelist George Rodenbach even made the sleepy city into a character in his novel Bruges-la-Morte, meaning " Bruges-the-dead ", which was adapted into Erich Wolfgang Korngold's opera, Die tote Stadt ( The Dead City ).

The two characters may be roughly equal or have a begrudging interdependence ( like Vladamir and Estragon in Waiting for Godot or the two main characters in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead ); one character may be clearly dominant and may torture the passive character ( like Pozzo and Lucky in Waiting for Godot or Hamm and Clov in Endgame ); the relationship of the characters may shift dramatically throughout the play ( as in Ionesco's The Lesson or in many of Albee's plays, The Zoo Story for example ).

Aspects of the character Father Merrin were based on the British archaeologist Gerald Lankester Harding, who had excavated the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls had been found and whom Blatty had met in Beirut.

* Helena ( Dead or Alive ), fictional character in the Dead or Alive video game series

In the video game Dead Island, a character Sam B, sings a song entitled " Who Do You Voodoo " and makes a reference to Baron Samedi.

Golders Green is the name of a character in the 2002 film 9 Dead Gay Guys.

In the version from the film And Now For Something Completely Different, it follows on from the " Dead Parrot " sketch with Palin's character leaving the pet shop as Eric Praline asks " I'm sorry, this is irrelevant, isn't it?

* Samuel Pickering, Professor at the University of Connecticut, inspiration for the character Mr. Keating in the Academy Award – winning film The Dead Poets Society