David Allen — Director (5)
The Dungeonmaster (1984) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Dungeonmaster
director: Peter Manoogian / David Allen actor: Jeffrey Byron / Richard Moll
other title: Herrscher der Hölle / Mestema, le maître du Donjon
Paul, a computer whiz who spends more time with his machine than with his girlfriend, finds that he has been chosen as a worthy opponent for Mestema, an evil wizard who has spent centuries searching for a challenging foe. After having his computer changed into a wristband weapon, Paul does battle with a variety of monsters before finally coming face to face with the ultimate adversary.
Wilding (2024) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Wilding
director: David Allen actor: Isabella Tree / Rhiannon Hughes
other title: 와일딩 / Wildes Land - Die Rückkehr der Natur
A young couple battle entrenched tradition and hostile forces to bet on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. Ripping down the fences, they set the land back to the wild and entrust its recovery to a motley mix of animals both tame and wild, beginning a grand experiment.
The Primevals (2023) [Movie] Douban
The Primevals
director: David Allen actor: 朱丽叶特·米尔斯 / Leon Russom
other title: 原始战纪
In this chimera of pulp fiction, ’50s creature features, and ’70s Saturday matinee TV that was shot in 1994 by renowned stop-motion animator David Allen but remained unfinished until now, a team of researchers trek into the Himalayas and discover horrors beyond their imagination.
My Africa (2018) [Movie] Douban
My Africa
other title: 我的非洲
Directed by David Allen, the project was captured with virtual reality cameras in the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy in Samburu County of northern Kenya at the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary, the first elephant orphanage in Africa owned and operated by the local community. In a region where conservation has traditionally been pursued by outsiders, Reteti, and the surrounding conservancy organization, Northern Rangelands Trust, offer a different model—one grounded in local leadership and traditional knowledge.
The film opens with iconic wildlife scenes: Viewers stand in the midst of a thundering herd of wildebeest migrating across the Mara River, in front of a lioness as she captures her prey, and later, with an inquisitive baby elephant in a community-led sanctuary in northern Kenya.
A young Samburu woman named Naltwasha Leripe, with narration in English by Lupita Nyong'o, takes viewers through her community's daily life, tending livestock, digging "singing" wells deep into dry riverbanks and rescuing a baby elephant orphaned by a poacher's gun.
My Life as a Turkey (2011) [Movie] Douban
My Life as a Turkey
director: David Allen actor: Joe Hutto / Lynne Hoppe
other title: 我的火鸡生活
My Life as a Turkey is the account of an amazing experiment: Naturalist Joe Hutto incubates two dozen wild-turkey eggs with the intention of human-imprinting and raising them. But the relationship that develops between the author and the birds changes his life so that he wonders who has imprinted whom.