4/13/2024 0 Comments B movie production companies![]() It’s gory, funny and features a young Jackie Earle Haley as the villain. Only problem-when he crash-lands on Earth, he discovers that compared to the human locals, he’s only 13 inches tall. Notable film: Dollman was one of Pyun’s most ambitious concepts, a sci-fi action picture about an interplanetary alien space cop armed with the most powerful gun in the universe. He’s still making movies today at 61, but his recent films haven’t made quite the impact of his late ’80s/early ’90s output. with an unbearably annoying Kathy Ireland. Salinger, as well as the MST3k film Alien from L.A. ![]() ![]() He also directed the ill-fated 1990 Captain America adaptation that starred Matt Salinger, the son of reclusive author J.D. Pyun is one of those guys who makes a dozen films revolving around the same topic, then says “Oh, I was never really interested in that topic it just let me make films.” For Pyun, those sources of “inspiration” have often been cyborgs and post-apocalyptic settings, such as on the “classic” Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle sporting the Cyborg name. It’s practically indescribable, a chaotic mess of post-apocalyptic fever dreams and Scott Shaw chopping at things with a katana. Notable film: The original The Roller Blade Seven perfectly encapsulates the look and aesthetic of a Donald G. As Shaw explains, this process “allows for a spiritually pure source of immediate inspiration to be the only guide in the filmmaking process.” And when you’re casting actors like Joe Estevez, you can imagine how well this works out. Alongside frequent collaborator and actor Scott Shaw, he espouses “Zen Filmmaking,” which essentially means directing feature films with no script. After beginning his career with movies that were almost “conventional” and mainstream, including the Rowdy Roddy Piper vehicle Hell Comes to Frogtown, he went off the deep end of his own personal filmmaking philosophy and started cranking out the likes of The Roller Blade Seven or Guns of El Chupacabra. ![]() Honorable Mentions: Joe D’Amato, James Nguyen, Tommy Wiseau (Sorry Tommy, but you probably need more than one film to qualify, even if that film is The Room.)Įasily the most bizarre director on the list, and probably the one to produce the most unwatchable films, but damn if Donald G. Make sure to afford them the respect they deserve! They’re the landed elite, B-movie royalty. These are the directors who have given us some of cinema’s strangest, cheapest-and in some cases, yes, worst-films. ![]() The best B-movie directors, then, are the ones who have produced a legacy of entertainment. B movies make us happy because they give us something to enjoy, either sincerely or ironically-both are equally valid. Whether that entertainment is derived from genuine, primal wish-fulfillment or giggling over a film’s obvious flaws is inconsequential. And yet, as we’ve already discussed at length in Paste’s ranking of the 100 Greatest B Movies, critical adoration isn’t what’s important when it comes to judging the weird, the unconventional and the exceedingly low-budget. If you’re a director, and you’re on this list, then it’s a fairly safe bet that the cumulative output of your film career did not set the critical world ablaze, except perhaps with the light of hastily assembled torches (and pitchforks). ![]()
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