He is best known for directing cult horror / comedy films the Evil Dead series, the action / superhero film Darkman, crime thriller A Simple Plan and supernatural horror Drag Me to Hell, as well as the blockbuster Spider-Man films and the producer of the successful TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, Xena: Warrior Princess, Legend of the Seeker ( also the creator ) and Spartacus: Blood and Sand.

" In the following years, similar awards were given to seven other films: one from Italy ( The Bicycle Thief ), two from France ( Monsieur Vincent and Forbidden Games ), three from Japan ( Rashomon, Gate of Hell and Samurai, The Legend of Musashi ), as well as a Franco-Italian co-production ( The Walls of Malapaga ).

( 1966 ), in which he played a Norman Bates-like character reminiscent of Psycho ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ), in which he played Acres, a dining room attendant ; The Legend of Hell House ( 1973 ), in which he played a physical medium assigned to a team attempting to crack the secret of the Belasco House ; Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry ( 1974 ); Evil Under the Sun ( 1982 ); Class of 1984 ( 1982 ); Fright Night ( 1985 ), in which he played Peter Vincent, a television host and moderator of telecast horror films ; and Overboard ( 1987 ) in which he played a kind-hearted butler.

* The Legend of Hell House ( 1973 )

* Legend ( Two Steps from Hell album ), 2008

His third book, Highway to Hell: The Life and Times of AC / DC Legend Bon Scott ( 1994 ) was widely acclaimed and a best seller in Australia.

* Highway to Hell: The Life and Times of AC / DC Legend Bon Scott ( Pan Macmillan, 1994 ; revised edition, Verse Chorus Press, 2001 )

* The song " Icebreaker " contains a sample from the film The Legend of Hell House – " Think of me as your unseen host and believe that, during your stay here, I shall be with you in spirit.

* The songs " Church ", " Icebreaker ", " Love " and " Basement " contain samples from the 1973 film The Legend of Hell House –" Get out before I kill you all!

* Hank Williams III " Legend of D. Ray White " on Straight to Hell

In 1973 the novel was made into a film, The Legend of Hell House, starring Pamela Franklin and Roddy McDowall.

Biohazard, Blood For Blood, Bury Your Dead, Terror, Winds of Plague, Stick to Your Guns, Your Demise, Thy Will Be Done, This is Hell, The Carrier, Suffokate, Born Low, Murder Death Kill, Trapped Under Ice, Lionheart, Shai Hulud, Close Your Eyes, Legend, Monsters, The World We Knew, The Great Commission, The Greenery, Hundredth, King Conquer, Betrayal, Withered, Venia, Death Ray Vision, She Has Fallen, Years Since the Storm

She played Lionel's wife in The Legend of Hell House ( 1973 ), and Tsarina Alexandra in Fall of Eagles ( 1974 ).

* The Legend of Hell House ( 1973 )

: For the Richard Matheson novel, see Hell House, made into a film titled The Legend of Hell House.

The Legend of Hell House is a 1973 British horror film directed by John Hough and starring Pamela Franklin, Roddy McDowall, Clive Revill, and Gayle Hunnicutt.

The rest of the top five albums are, in order, Queen's Greatest Hits ( 496 weeks ), Fleetwood Mac's Rumours ( 478 weeks ), Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell ( 469 weeks ), and Bob Marley & The Wailers ' Legend ( 424 weeks ).

Besides records, Hodgson also spent his time at the studio writing scores for ballet and film including, with Derbyshire, the music for the 1973 horror film The Legend of Hell House.

Legend has it that it is the property of the Devil, and a gateway to Hell.

In the 2005 ITV programme The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend, a full-size replica of the House of Lords was built and destroyed with barrels of gunpowder.

Northern Dancer: The Legend and His Legacy ( Hushion House Publishing Ltd: 1995 ) ISBN 0-9699025-0-6

Puppy, Big Time Rush, Supah Ninjas, The Legend of Korra, House of Anubis, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness and Power Rangers Megaforce.

* Yeatman, Ted P .: Frank and Jesse James: The Story Behind the Legend, Cumberland House, 2001

Seabiscuit: An American Legend, ( 2001 ), Random House ISBN 978-0-375-50291-0

The locations ( castles, labyrinths, secret rooms, and dark dungeons ), items ( keys, sword, and " treasure "), and monsters ( bats, dragons ) were unique in the world of video games, and later would find their way into games such as Haunted House, The Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy.

* The story of John Barker & Co Ltd, Kensington, London, from Michael Moss and Alison Turton, A Legend of Retailing: House of Fraser, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989.

* An Alien Light, ( Arbor House / William Morrow Jan. 1988 ) / ( Legend Nov. 1988 )

In medieval Europe, this was a common device, used to indicate that the events included are fictional ; Geoffrey Chaucer used it in The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, Parlement of Foules, and The Legend of Good Women ( the last also containing a multi-story frame story within the dream ).

In addition to various Spielberg films, Amblin has produced movies by other directors such as Joe Dante ( Gremlins, Small Soldiers, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Innerspace ), Robert Zemeckis ( the Back to the Future trilogy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit ), Brian Levant ( the Flintstones duology ), Matthew Robbins (* batteries not included ), Penelope Spheeris ( the 1994 film remake of The Little Rascals ), Brad Silberling ( Casper ), Don Bluth ( An American Tail, The Land Before Time ), Clint Eastwood ( The Bridges of Madison County, Flags of Our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima, Hereafter-except for the last named the Amblin logo does not appear on Eastwood's films, or on Schindler's List & True Grit ), Gil Kenan ( Monster House ), Martin Campbell ( The Mask of Zorro, The Legend of Zorro ), Richard Donner ( The Goonies ), Jan de Bont ( Twister ), Barry Sonnenfeld ( the Men in Black trilogy ), Martin Scorsese ( Cape Fear ), Joe Johnston ( Jurassic Park III ), J. J. Abrams ( Super 8 ), The Coen Brothers ( True Grit ), and Simon Wells ( An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, and We're Back!

* The Legend of Doom House ( 1971 )

* Legend Books, an imprint of Random House

* Legend ( House of Pain EP ), 1994

Some of the previous guests have included: Sridevi, The Tragically Hip, M. I. A., Eckhart Tolle, Margaret Atwood, Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Wyclef Jean, Chris Jericho, Tom Cruise, Bill Maher, James Cameron, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, Marlee Matlin, Tim Robbins, Spike Lee, Ricky Gervais, Tony Bennett, Greg Kinnear, John Legend, David Byrne, former President of the United States Jimmy Carter, Larry King, LeBron James, Henry Rollins, Evangeline Lilly, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan, Alanis Morissette, Malcolm Gladwell, Richard Branson, Howard Zinn, Kings of Leon, Kylie Minogue, Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Sean Avery, former Canadian Prime Ministers Paul Martin, John Turner and Brian Mulroney, P! nk, Smashing Pumpkins, David Suzuki, Mike Holmes, Douglas Coupland, Naomi Klein, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Tammet, David Thewlis, Larry Charles, Dana White, Tony Robbins, Gordon Ramsay, Dave Salmoni and Adrien Brody.

Consequently, the band operates Fortune Bay Resort Casino, The Wilderness at Fortune Bay golf course, and the Atisokanigamig ( Legend House ) Heritage Center out of this reservation.

She is the subject of a poem ( Peregrine White and Virginia Dare ) by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Benet, and the North Carolina Legend of the White Doe.

His sacral masterpiece and one of the most famous religious works of art of the later Middle Ages is The Legend of St. Sebastian and The Passion of Christ of the so called Sebastian Altar in St. Florian's Priory ( Stift Sankt Florian ) near Linz, Upper Austria.

The " Legend of the Octopus " is a sports tradition during Detroit Red Wings playoff games, in which an octopus is thrown onto the ice surface for good luck.

In the later Legend of Atrahasis, Enlil, the king of the gods, sets out to eliminate humanity, whose noise is disturbing his rest.

* Godzilla 1985: The Legend is Reborn-U. S. marketing title.

* Gene therapy is the basis for the plot line of the film I Am Legend.

Felix Holt, the Radical and The Legend of Jubal were overtly political, and political crisis is at the heart of Middlemarch, in which she presents the stories of a number of denizens of a small English town on the eve of the Reform Bill of 1832 ; the novel is notable for its deep psychological insight and sophisticated character portraits.

The short story " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " by Washington Irving is cited as " the first great comedy-horror story ".

The horseshoe is presented as a talisman in The True Legend of St. Dunstan and the Devil ; Showing how the Horse-Shoe came to be a Charm against Witchcraft, written in 1871 by Edward G. Flight, with illustrations by George Cruikshank and engravings by John Thompson.

Legend has it that if she wishes to make the winter last a good while longer, she will make sure the weather on Imbolc is bright and sunny, so she can gather plenty of firewood.

He is also often depicted with a lion, " a figment " found in the thirteenth-century Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine, and less often with an owl, the symbol of wisdom and scholarship.

Jacobus de Voragine, compiling his Legenda Aurea ( Golden Legend ) before the competition arose, characterized Mary Magdalene as the emblem of penitence, washing the feet of Jesus with her copious tears ( although it is now believed that Mary of Bethany was the woman known for washing or anointing the feet of Jesus ) protectress of pilgrims to Jerusalem, daily lifting by angels at the meal hour in her fasting retreat and many other miraculous happenings in the genre of Romance, ending with her death in the oratory of Saint Maximin, all disingenuously claimed to have been drawn from the histories of Hegesippus and of Josephus.

Legend has it that the mountain is based on a doodle made by W. W. Hodkinson during a meeting with Adolph Zukor.

Chief among the legendary sources about the saint is the Golden Legend, which remains the most familiar version in English owing to William Caxton's 15th-century translation.

The Legend of Zelda franchise is the inaugural recipient of Spike TV's first ever Video Game Hall of Fame award.

" The Legend of Zelda Theme " is a recurring piece of music that was created for the first game of the franchise.

Another title is The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Ura, intended to be an upgraded remake of Ocarina of Time for the Nintendo 64DD.

Characters from and references to The Legend of Zelda series have appeared in a variety of other video games that go beyond what is considered a typical cameo appearance.

The developers of the game Dark Sector have stated they have been heavily influenced by The Legend of Zelda series, and that the structure of the game is much like a Zelda game.

Additionally, The Legend of Neil is a web-video series that aired on Comedy Central, spoofing the original Legend of Zelda game.

The cover of Nicholas Andrews's humorous fantasy novel " The Adventure Tournament " is a parody of the Legend of Zelda title screen.