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John Carl Buechler

Born June 18, 1952 · Belleville, Illinois, USA

Died March 18, 2019 · aged 66

John Carl Buechler (pronounced Beekler) was an American director, actor, and special effects and makeup artist. He was born in Belleville, Illinois, and is probably best known for directing Troll (1986), Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988), Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1990) and 2006The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (200&). John Carl Buechler was born on June 1, 195…

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Red Rock West

Red Rock West · 1993

MovieCrimeThriller

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood

Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood · 1988

Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood

MovieHorrorThriller

Tina Shepard, a telekinetic teenage girl, accidentally unchains Jason from his watery grave, allowing him to go on another killing spree in the area.

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers · 1988

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

MovieHorrorThriller

Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.

Ghoulies

Ghoulies · 1984

MovieHorrorComedy

A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers · 1995

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

MovieHorrorThriller

Six years after being presumed dead in a fire, and just as the town prepares to finally celebrate Halloween again, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield to continue his reign of terror.

Demonic Toys

Demonic Toys · 1992

MovieHorrorComedy

While on a stakeout, Judith Gray, a beautiful, tough cop, is trapped inside a warehouse full of toys that have been awakened to murderous life by a strange child of darkness.

Re-Animator

Re-Animator · 1985

MovieScience FictionComedy

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

Freeway

Freeway · 1996

MovieComedyCrime

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

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Red Rock West

Red Rock West · 1993

MovieCrimeThriller

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood

Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood · 1988

Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood

MovieHorrorThriller

Tina Shepard, a telekinetic teenage girl, accidentally unchains Jason from his watery grave, allowing him to go on another killing spree in the area.

Director

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers · 1988

Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers

MovieHorrorThriller

Ten years after his original massacre, the invalid Michael Myers awakens on Halloween Eve and returns to Haddonfield to kill his seven-year-old niece.

Makeup Effects Designer

Ghoulies

Ghoulies · 1984

MovieHorrorComedy

A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers · 1995

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers

MovieHorrorThriller

Six years after being presumed dead in a fire, and just as the town prepares to finally celebrate Halloween again, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield to continue his reign of terror.

Makeup Effects Designer

Demonic Toys

Demonic Toys · 1992

MovieHorrorComedy

While on a stakeout, Judith Gray, a beautiful, tough cop, is trapped inside a warehouse full of toys that have been awakened to murderous life by a strange child of darkness.

Second Unit Director

Re-Animator

Re-Animator · 1985

MovieScience FictionComedy

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Freeway

Freeway · 1996

MovieComedyCrime

Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie · 1987

The Garbage Pail Kids Movie

MovieAdventureComedy

Crude, grotesque, pint-sized aliens known as the Garbage Pail Kids® help a young boy exact revenge on his bullies and win the girl of his dreams.

Makeup Artist

Hatchet

Hatchet · 2006

MovieComedyHorror

When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare.

Special Effects

From Beyond

From Beyond · 1986

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

The Resonator, a powerful machine that can control the sixth sense, has killed its creator and sent his associate into an insane asylum. When a psychiatrist becomes determined to continue the experiment, she unwittingly opens the door to a hostile parallel universe.

Special Effects Coordinator

Dinosaur Island

Dinosaur Island · 1994

Dinosaur Island

MovieAdventureComedy

Welcome to lush Dinosaur Island, where a tribe of gorgeous cavedwelling warrior women satisfy the exotic fantasies of five downed military airmen. Fearsome battles with the island's ferocious maneating dinosaurs are the only disruption of their seductive pleasures on this island paradise. Narrowly surviving with their lives, the rugged men fall under the seductive spell of their lovely captors and soon find their every dream fulfilled.

Special Effects

Troll

MovieFantasyHorror

When a family moves into a San Francisco apartment, an opportunistic troll decides to make his move and take possession of little Wendy, thereby paving the way for new troll recruits, the first in his army that will take eventual control of the planet. We soon discover Torok is the ex-husband of Eunice St. Clair, a resident in the building who was married to Torok.

Director

Dolls

MovieFantasyHorror

A precocious girl, her nasty parents, two punk-rock losers and a weak-kneed salesman inadvertently become the guests of two ghoulish senior citizens in their dark, haunted mansion.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

The Dungeonmaster

The Dungeonmaster · 1984

The Dungeonmaster

MovieHorrorFantasy

A computer whiz is yanked into a twisted digital world by the sadistic wizard Mestema and forced through a gauntlet of wild, deadly trials, from mutant goblins to metal mayhem, with his girlfriend’s soul on the line.

Director

Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College

Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College · 1990

Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College

MovieHorrorComedy

A college teacher brings the little creatures back to his campus, where they proceed to terrorize the faculty and students.

Director

Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity

Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity · 1987

Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity

MovieActionAdventure

In the future, two slaves in a distant galaxy escape prison and crash-land on a strange planet. They meet Zed, whose hospitality attempts to hide the fact they are to be hunted for sport. Armed only with knives and their wits, the girls must battle their way across the jungle to a hidden arms cache before Zed catches and kills them.

Special Effects

Ghost Town

Ghost Town · 1988

MovieHorrorWestern

Deputy Langley tracks a kidnapped girl to an abandoned ghost town. However, the town is not abandoned, but haunted by the spirits of an outlaw, Devlin, and his gang, who hold the equally deceased townspeople hostage until the outlaws can be killed by a lawman.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Tammy and the T-Rex

Tammy and the T-Rex · 1994

Tammy and the T-Rex

MovieScience FictionComedy

An evil scientist implants the brain of a murdered high school student into an animatronic Tyrannosaurus, who later wreaks vengeance on the bullies who killed him, and is reunited with his sweetheart.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Hatchet II

Hatchet II · 2010

MovieHorrorComedy

Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the swamp-dwelling killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher.

Jack Cracker

Mortuary

Mortuary · 2005

A family moves to a small California town where they plan on starting a new life running a long-abandoned funeral home. The locals fear the place, suspected to be on haunted ground.

Special Effects

Demonwarp

Demonwarp · 1988

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

A man and his daughter are attacked in the woods by what they believe is a Bigfoot-type creature. However, they soon begin to suspect that they may have stumbled onto a nest of aliens in a hidden spacecraft.

Creature Design

The Fear

The Fear · 1995

Richard, a college student who has decided to focus his attention on the study of fear, invites a group of friends up to his family's secluded mountain cabin for the weekend. Soon, a lifelike, wooden carving of a man begins stalking and killing them.

Special Effects

Vampires: Out for Blood

Vampires: Out for Blood · 2004

Vampires: Out for Blood

MovieActionFantasy

In the dark, throbbing world of underground raves, people are vanishing without a trace and Detective Hank Holten is the only one who knows the terrible truth. Vampires.

Makeup Supervisor

Land of the Lost

Land of the Lost · 1991

Land of the Lost

SeriesAction & AdventureComedy

A widowed father, Tom, and his two teen children, Kevin and younger sister, Annie, find themselves trapped in a parallel universe when their jeep falls into the time portal while exploring the countryside. Together, they must learn to survive in this strange new world filled with dinosaurs, monkey-like people, and aliens.

Director