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Joel M. Reed
Still of Joel M. Reed at his apartment from the documentary Reed Unbound: The Joel M Reed Story.
Born(1933-12-29)December 29, 1933
Brooklyn, New York City, US
DiedApril 12, 2020(2020-04-12) (aged 86)
New York, US
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Film director, producer, screenwriter
Years active1968–2020

Joel M. Reed (December 20, 1933 – April 12, 2020) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter.[1][2][3][4]

Career

Reed is best known for directing the controversial Blood Sucking Freaks [5] (1976) which was a notorious horror comedy that has since achieved cult status but upon its initial release was the subject of protests.[6]

Reed also directed the films Career Bed,[7] (1968) Sex by Advertisement, (1969) The G.I. Executioner (Wit's End / Dragon Lady / Wild Dragon Lady),[8] (1971) Blood Bath (Terror / Night and the City),[9] (1976) Night of the Zombies (Gamma 693 / Sister of Death / Battalion of the Living Dead).[10] (1981)

Reed wrote and directed Blood Bath which was produced by the Trans-Orient Entertainment Corporation and had a budget of $100,000. In a 1974 interview with The New York Times, he described the film as a "contemporary, episodic occult-horror adventure". Harve Presnell starred in the film as a producer of horror films who arranges in his studio a Black Mass.[11]

On March 1, 1990 Masquerade Books published a book that Reed wrote on Donald Trump called Trump: the Man, the Myth, the Scandal, which did not sell well.

In May 2012, Reed signed with Polus Books, beginning with his short story "Zombie Wall".

Reed wrote all the scripts of the movies he directed.

In 2011 Reed made a comeback as an actor playing the main character Uncle Joe in the film Dead Eye, directed by Louis Affortunato. After that, Reed acted in eight more films: I Spill Your Guts (2012); Supernaturalz: Weird, Creepy & Random (2012); Trashtastic (2013); Catch of the Day (2014); The Fappening (2015); Vault of Terror II: The Undead (2015); Freak in a Basement (2018); and The Dysfunctional Mob.

On September 17, 2018 a book by author John Szpunar was released by Headpress about Reed called Blood Sucking Freak: The Life and Films of the Incredible Joel M. Reed. In December 2018 Reed was Interviewed for a documentary about himself called Reed Unbound: The Joel M. Reed Story (2019) which chronicles his whole life and film career and was directed by Jerry Landi and Adrian Esposito.

Death

Reed died on April 12, 2020, aged 86, in a care facility in New York City after contracting the COVID-19 virus.[12]

References

  1. ^ "details".
  2. ^ "Interviews".
  3. ^ "Movies" – via www.nytimes.com.
  4. ^ Institute, American Film (November 4, 1971). "The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States". University of California Press – via Google Books.
  5. ^ "Movie Reviews" – via www.nytimes.com.
  6. ^ "overview".
  7. ^ "Movie Reviews" – via www.nytimes.com.
  8. ^ "Movie Reviews" – via www.nytimes.com.
  9. ^ "Movie Reviews" – via www.nytimes.com.
  10. ^ "Movie Reviews" – via www.nytimes.com.
  11. ^ Weiler, A. H. (April 28, 1974). "News of the Screen: Shooting Horrors in Local Studio". The New York Times.
  12. ^ Dick, Jeremy (April 14, 2020). "'Blood Sucking Freaks' Director Joel M. Reed Dies at 86". Horror Geek Life. Retrieved April 15, 2020.

External links

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