Brian Yuzna
| Brian Yuzna | |
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 Brian Yuzna (left) with Christophe Gans at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival | |
| Born |
August 30, 1949 Philippines |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter, film producer |
Brian Yuzna (born August 30, 1949 in the Philippines) is a director, writer and producer who has been active within the independent horror genre for over thirty years. He is widely known as the producer behind Re-Animator, as well as being the first American filmmaker to adapt a Manga into a live-action feature. He has helmed several adaptations of the work of H.P. Lovecraft, and has assisted many first time directors (including Stuart Gordon, Christophe Gans and Luis De La Madrid in getting their projects made.
Biography
Yuzna grew up in Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Panama before moving to the United States in the 1960s.
Career
Most of Yuzna's film work is in the horror genre, though he has also ventured into science fiction.
With Julio Fernández, Yuzna started Fantastic Factory, a label under Barcelona film company Filmax. Yuzna's goal for Fantastic Factory is produce "modestly budgeted genre (horror, science fiction, fantasy) films for the international market (shot in English language) using genre talent from all around the world and to develop local talent."[1]
He was last working as the producer of the Wehrmacht zombie movie Worst Case Scenario, directed by Richard Raaphorst, which takes place after a fictional World Cup 2006 finale between Germany and Netherlands where Germany loses and seeks revenge with a zombie invasion, in May 2009 was announced the project is dead.[2] The film eventually became Frankenstein's Army and was released in 2013.
After four years returned to the director's chair and filmed the movie Amphibious 3-D[3] which stars actors Michael Paré, Janna Fassaert and Francis Magee.[4] Yuzna is a special guest in Oviento, Italy of the Fantasy Horror Awards 2010.[5]
Filmography
As director
- Society (1989)
- Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
- Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 (1990)
- Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
- Necronomicon (segments "The Library" & "Whispers") (1993)
- Tarzan: The Epic Adventures (episode "Tarzan's Return") (1996)
- The Dentist (1996)
- Progeny (1998)
- The Dentist 2 (1998)
- Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)
- Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
- Rottweiler (2004)
- Beneath Still Waters (2005)
- Amphibious (2010)
- 60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero (2011)
As writer
- From Beyond (1986)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
- Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
- Initiation: Silent Night, Deadly Night 4 (1990)
- Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1992)
- Necronomicon (segments "The Library" & "Whispers") (1993)
- Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
As producer
- Re-Animator (1985)
- From Beyond (1986)
- Dolls (1987)
- Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
- Bride of Re-Animator (1990)
- The Guyver (1991)
- Warlock (1989)
- Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker (1992)
- Ticks (film) (1993)
- Return of the Living Dead III (1993)
- Necronomicon (1993)
- Crying Freeman (1995)
- Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)
- Arachnid (2001)
- Dagon (2001)
- Darkness (2002)
- Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
- Romasanta (2004)
- Rottweiler (2004)
- The Nun (2005)
- Takut: Faces of Fear (2008)
- Worst Case Scenario (2009)
- House of Re-Animator (2010)
- Everdark (2010)
As actor
- H.P. Lovecraft's: Necronomicon (1993)
- The Dentist (1996)
Guest appearances
- Stephen King's World of Horror (1986)
- The Incredibly Strange Film Show (1989)
- Fear in the Dark (1991)
- Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror (1997)
- Metrópolis (2001)
- Working with a Master: Stuart Gordon (2006)
- Re-Animator Resurrectus (2007)
- Durch die Nacht mit... (2007)
- Science of Horror (2008)
- Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009)
References
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