John Buechler:  

Life Roger Corman has called him “… the best in the Business”. When FX wizard filmmaker John Carl Buechler headed the makeup special effects division of New World pictures in the early 80’s providing trademark “Brilliance on a budget”. Wizardry such Corman produced film as Android, Deathstalker, Forbidden World and other classics. John Buechler’s early Corman creature features were his first break in Hollywood. He moved to join forces with Charlie Band’s ambitious Empire Films in mid-80, designing and supervising the FX for a multitude of high-concept and critically acclaimed box-office hits including Ghoulies, Trancers, From Beyond and Re-animator.Buechler became the first motion picture director to emerge from make-up effects background, cutting his directorial teeth on the modestly budgeted fantasy films : Troll, Cellar Dweller and Dungeonmaster.Buechler soon was tapped to direct the seventh installment of Paramount’s fright filled Jason series. Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood. Buechler not only directed the picture, he also created the amazing and ghastly interpretation of the disintegrating, corpse-like anti-hero, which has been hailed as the definitive Jason of the long –running series.John Carl Buechler is the only make-up effects designer to have worked with all three of the great horror franchise of the 80’s (Friday The 13th, Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween). The sought after director has not sl...Expand for more