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Rusty Cundieff
Director 65 years old

Rusty Cundieff

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

George Arthur "Rusty" Cundieff (born December 13, 1960) is an American film/television director, actor, and writer. His notable credits are as director/writer of and lead actor in the This Is Spinal Tap-like rap satire Fear of a Black Hat, as writer of the second installment... Read full bio →

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8 titles
In Search of Darkness 1995-1999: Journey Back Into Iconic '90s Horror

In Search of Darkness 1995-1999: Journey Back Into Iconic '90s Horror

David A. Weiner 2025 6h 24m

In Search of Darkness: 1995-1999 celebrates and explores the movies that defined the era: from Scream’s genre-shattering impact to J-Horror’s global emergence, from mind-bending twists to Y2K apocalyptic dread, and from blockbuster hits to straight-to-video gems.

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror

Xavier Burgin 2019 1h 23m

Delving into a century of genre films that by turns utilized, caricatured, exploited, sidelined, and finally embraced them, this is the untold history of black Americans in Hollywood through their connection to the horror genre.

Tales from the Hood 2

Tales from the Hood 2

Rusty Cundieff, Darin Scott 2018 1h 50m

Mr. Simms returns to tell more eerie, unsettling tales involving dolls, psychics, possession and ghosts.

Tales from the Hood

Tales from the Hood

Rusty Cundieff 1995 1h 38m 7.0

A strange funeral director tells four strange tales of horror with an African American focus to three drug dealers he traps in his place of business.

Fear of a Black Hat

Fear of a Black Hat

Rusty Cundieff 1994 1h 28m 8.0

Chronicling the controversial career of bad boys N.W.H. (Niggaz With Hats), this uproarious 'mockumentary' lampoons all of hardcore rap's hot-button issues. This underground laugh riot recounts the rise, fall and resurrection of a clueless bunch of would-be rappers, Ice Cold, Tone-Def & Tasty Taste performing as N.W.H.

School Daze

School Daze

Spike Lee 1988 2h 1m 6.0

In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the oponent.

Hollywood Shuffle

Hollywood Shuffle

Robert Townsend 1987 1h 21m

Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must…

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Larry Gross 1986 1h 26m

Violent crime is routine. Organized drug trade runs rampant in the face of powerless authority. And a vicious street gang holds dominion with a savage reign of terror. Welcome to Lincoln High! Here the cobras rule the school and everyone in it. Everyone except for Jeff Hanna.

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