Rick Sloane
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Cinematic jack-of-all-trades Rick Sloane will never win any special
awards for his admittedly cheap'n'cheesy low-budget independent movies,
but he nonetheless deserves some respect for weathering the storm of
lots of harsh critical notices and cranking out a sizable number of
films throughout the years. Rick was born in 1961 and grew up in Los
Angeles, California (he even attended Hollywood High School). He
started making fake movie trailers as a teenager and originally planned
on being an animator. Sloane was inspired to become a full-fledged
filmmaker after seeing the hilarious 70's drive-in exploitation schlock
parody "Hollywood Boulevard" at age eighteen. Rick went to film school
at Los Angeles City College, where he was told by several instructors
that he was the least talented student in their classes. Sloane's debut
feature was the lame horror slasher spoof "The Movie House Massacre,"
which he made when he was twenty-one years old. This was followed by
the campy sci-fi outing "The Visitants." Rick achieved his greatest
notoriety with the atrocious "Gremlins" rip-off "Hobgoblins;" this
horrendous dud was famously mocked on the cult TV show "Mystery Science
Theater 3000." Sloane really hit his stride with the crudely amusing
"Vice Academy" flicks; he wound up making six movies altogether in this
particular series (these pictures were made popular by being shown all
the time on the late-night cable TV program "USA Up All Night"). "Good
Girls Don't" rates highly as Rick's best-ever cinematic venture to
date; it's a surprisingly sweet and charming female buddy comedic romp
that's funny and touching in equal measure. After an eight year hiatus
from filmmaking, Rick Sloane made a comeback with the less than eagerly
anticipated belated sequel "Hobgoblins 2."
