Trapped Ashes

Directed by	Sean S. Cunningham Joe Dante Monte Hellman Ken Russell John Gaeta
Written by	Dennis Bartok
Produced by	Independent Film Fund, Cinema Investment
Starring	Jayce Bartok Amelia Cooke Lara Harris Ryo Ishibashi Scott Lowell Luke Macfarlane Michéle-Barbara Pelletier Tahmoh Penikett Tygh Runyan Rachel Veltri John Saxon Henry Gibson
Cinematography	Zoran Popovic Makoto Watanabe
Edited by	Marcus Manton
Music by	Kenji Kawai
Distributed by	Independent Film Fund Cinema Investment Tokyo Broadcasting System
Release date	September 12, 2006 (2006-09-12)
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Trapped Ashes is a 2006 American horror anthology film with segments directed by Sean S. Cunningham, Joe Dante, Monte Hellman, Ken Russell, and John Gaeta. It stars Jayce Bartok, Henry Gibson, and Lara Harris.^[1]^[2]

Plot

"Wraparound" (Joe Dante)

In the frame story seven strangers visiting Hollywood movie studios are brought to an ill-famed House of Horror by Desmond the tour guide (Henry Gibson) and find themselves locked inside. To leave the trap alive, they have to tell their most terrifying stories.

"The Girl with Golden Breasts" (Ken Russell)

Phoebe (Rachel Veltri) receives breast implants made of reconstituted human corpse tissue but the implants exhibit an appetite for human blood.

"Jibaku" (Sean S. Cunningham)

Henry (Scott Lowell) and Julia (Lara Harris) visit Japan, where Julia is seduced by a spirit attempting to draw her into Jigoku.

"Stanley's Girlfriend" (Monte Hellman)

Leo (Tahmoh Penikett) has an affair with fellow filmmaker Stanley's (Tygh Runyan) girlfriend Nina (Amelia Cooke), a witch who drinks the blood of her lovers to gain immortality.

"My Twin, the Worm" (John Gaeta)

Natalie's mother Martine (Michèle-Barbara Pelletier) cannot treat her tapeworm without losing her unborn child and must allow them both to grow inside her. Once born, Natalie continues to be compelled to feed the worm.

Cast

Jayce Bartok as Andy
Henry Gibson as Tour Guide
Lara Harris as Julia
Scott Lowell as Henry
Dick Miller as Max
Rachel Veltri as Phoebe
Michèle-Barbara Pelletier as Nathalie / Martine
- Matreya Fedor as Young Nathalie
John Saxon as Leo
- Tahmoh Penikett as Young Leo
Andy Maton as Stanley
- Tygh Runyan as Young Stanley
Yoshinori Hiruma as Seishin
Amelia Cooke as Nina
Ryo Ishibashi as Head Monk
Luke Macfarlane as Vincent
Richard Ian Cox as Doug
Ken Russell as Lucy
Deanna Milligan as Annie
Jerry Wasserman as Stengel

Reception

The film received a 33% approval rating on a Rotten Tomatoes review (average rating 4.3/10).^[3]

References

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Films directed by Monte Hellman

Films directed by Monte Hellman
Beast from Haunted Cave (1959) Flight to Fury (1964) Back Door to Hell (1964) Ride in the Whirlwind (1966) The Shooting (1966) Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) Cockfighter (1974) China 9, Liberty 37 (1978) Iguana (1988) Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! (1989) Trapped Ashes (2006) Road to Nowhere (2010)

Works directed by Ken Russell

Works directed by Ken Russell
Films	French Dressing (1964) Billion Dollar Brain (1967) Women in Love (1969) The Music Lovers (1971) The Devils (1971) The Boy Friend (1971) Savage Messiah (1972) Mahler (1974) Tommy (1975) Lisztomania (1975) Valentino (1977) Altered States (1980) Crimes of Passion (1984) Gothic (1986) Salome's Last Dance (1988) The Lair of the White Worm (1988) The Rainbow (1989) Women & Men: Stories of Seduction (1990) Whore (1991) Mindbender (1995) The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002) Trapped Ashes (2006)
Documentaries	John Betjeman: A Poet in London (1959) Gordon Jacob (1959) A House in Bayswater (1959) Pop Goes the Easel (1962) Elgar (1962) Watch the Birdie (1963) Bartok (1964) The Dotty World of James Lloyd (1964) The Debussy Film (1965) Always on Sunday (1965) Don't Shoot the Composer (1966) Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966) Dante's Inferno (1967) Song of Summer (1968) Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) William and Dorothy (1976) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1978) The Planets (1983) Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait (1984) Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988) The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990) The Mystery of Dr Martinu (1992) Alice in Russialand (1994) Elgar: Fantasy on a Composer on a Bicycle (2002)
Shorts	Peep Show (1956) Amelia and the Angel (1958) Segment "Nessun Dorma" in Aria (1987) The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch (1993) The Lion's Mouth (2000) A Kitten for Hitler (2007)
TV movies	Prisoner of Honor (1991) The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992) Lady Chatterley (mini-series, 1993) Ken Russell's Treasure Island (1995) Dogboys (1998)

Films directed by Sean S. Cunningham

Films directed by Sean S. Cunningham
The Art of Marriage (1970) Together (1971) Case of the Full Moon Murders (1973) Here Come the Tigers (1978) Manny's Orphans (1978) Friday the 13th (1980) A Stranger Is Watching (1982) Spring Break (1983) The New Kids (1985) DeepStar Six (1989) XCU: Extreme Close Up (2001) Terminal Invasion (2002) Trapped Ashes (2006)

Works directed by Joe Dante

Works directed by Joe Dante
Feature films	Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Piranha (1978) The Howling (1981) Gremlins (1984) Explorers (1985) Innerspace (1987) The 'Burbs (1989) Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Matinee (1993) Small Soldiers (1998) Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) The Hole (2009) Burying the Ex (2014)
Other films	The Movie Orgy (1968) Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983, segment "It's a Good Life") Amazon Women on the Moon (1987) Haunted Lighthouse (2003) Trapped Ashes (2006, segment "Wraparound") Nightmare Cinema (2018, segment "Mirari")
Television	Eerie, Indiana (1991, creative consultant and director) Runaway Daughters (1994) The Second Civil War (1997) The Warlord: Battle for the Galaxy (1998) Masters of Horror episodes "Homecoming" (2005) "The Screwfly Solution" (2006) Splatter (2009 web series)