RIP - Larry Buchanan
From Fangoria:
December 10: RIP Larry Buchanan
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news about the death last Thursday, December 2 of B-movie director Larry Buchanan, who succumbed to complications from a collapsed lung at age 81. The Texas-born Buchanan, who chronicled his life and films in the 1996 McFarland book IT CAME FROM HUNGER: TALES OF A CINEMA SCHLOCKMEISTER, began his career as an actor and then made documentaries for evangelist Oral Roberts (!) before moving on to the low-budget sci-fi and horror movies that gave him a cult following, such as MARS NEEDS WOMEN, THE NAKED WITCH, IT’S ALIVE (no relation to the Larry Cohen pic), ZONTAR, THE THING FROM VENUS, THE EYE CREATURES, IN THE YEAR 2889 and CREATURE OF DESTRUCTION. His most recent film, which he completed just shortly before his death, is THE COPPER SCROLL OF MARY MAGDALENE, about the life of Jesus Christ. You can read more about that film and Buchanan here, and check out our own interview with the director in Fango #41. (Thanks to Jeff Buchanan) —Michael Gingold
Mars Needs Women was a favorite of mine as a kid, and Buchanan was a exploiteer of the highest order, right up there with H.G. Lewis and David Friedman. Not too many more of those kind of people around anymore, although you could almost say that Mark Burnett and Endemol are the bastard offspring of the roadshow exploiters. Rest in peace, Larry.
December 10: RIP Larry Buchanan
The Hollywood Reporter broke the news about the death last Thursday, December 2 of B-movie director Larry Buchanan, who succumbed to complications from a collapsed lung at age 81. The Texas-born Buchanan, who chronicled his life and films in the 1996 McFarland book IT CAME FROM HUNGER: TALES OF A CINEMA SCHLOCKMEISTER, began his career as an actor and then made documentaries for evangelist Oral Roberts (!) before moving on to the low-budget sci-fi and horror movies that gave him a cult following, such as MARS NEEDS WOMEN, THE NAKED WITCH, IT’S ALIVE (no relation to the Larry Cohen pic), ZONTAR, THE THING FROM VENUS, THE EYE CREATURES, IN THE YEAR 2889 and CREATURE OF DESTRUCTION. His most recent film, which he completed just shortly before his death, is THE COPPER SCROLL OF MARY MAGDALENE, about the life of Jesus Christ. You can read more about that film and Buchanan here, and check out our own interview with the director in Fango #41. (Thanks to Jeff Buchanan) —Michael Gingold
Mars Needs Women was a favorite of mine as a kid, and Buchanan was a exploiteer of the highest order, right up there with H.G. Lewis and David Friedman. Not too many more of those kind of people around anymore, although you could almost say that Mark Burnett and Endemol are the bastard offspring of the roadshow exploiters. Rest in peace, Larry.
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