Brian Yuzna

Brian Yuzna
Brian Yuzna (left) with Christophe Gans at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival
Born	1949 (age 62–63) Philippines
Occupation	Film director, Screenwriter, Film producer

Brian Yuzna (born in the Philippines in 1949) is a director, writer and producer of films.

Life

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. Like his friend and fellow filmmaker Stuart Gordon, Yuzna is a big fan of H. P. Lovecraft and has adapted several Lovecraft stories for the screen.

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." 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. After four years returned to the Director's chair and filmed the movie Amphibious 3-D who is starring Michael Paré, Janna Fassaert and Francis Magee. Yuzna is a special guest in Oviento, Italy of the Fantasy Horror Awards 2010.

Filmography

As director

• Society (1989)
• Bride of Re-Animator (1989)
• 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)

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)
• Infested (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

• The Dentist (1996)
• H.P. Lovecraft's: Necronomicon (1993)

Guest appearances

• Nightmares in Red, White and Blue (2009)
• Science of Horror (2008)
• Durch die Nacht mit... (2007)
• Re-Animator Resurrectus (2007)
• Working with a Master: Stuart Gordon (2006)
• Metrópolis (2001)
• Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror (1997)
• Fear in the Dark (1991)
• The Incredibly Strange Film Show (1989)
• Stephen King's World of Horror (1986)

External links

• Brian Yuzna at the Internet Movie Database
• Fantastic Factory