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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…

Known For

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tammy and the T-Rex

Tammy and the T-Rex · 1994

Tammy and the T-Rex

MovieScience FictionHorror

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

Trancers

Trancers · 1984

MovieScience FictionCrime

Angel City trooper Jack Deth is sent back in time from 2247 to 1985 L.A. to inhabit the body of his ancestor. Deth's assignment is to find his archenemy, Whistler, who turns people into zombies, before the fiend is able to kill all the ancestors of the future's governing council.

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

Forbidden World

Forbidden World · 1982

Forbidden World

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

In the distant future, a federation marshal arrives at a research lab on a remote planet where a genetic experiment has gotten loose and begins feeding on the dwindling scientific group.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

Red Rock West

Red Rock West · 1993

MovieCrimeDrama

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

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

TerrorVision

TerrorVision · 1986

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

After Stanley Putterman installs a state-of-the-art satellite dish in his backyard, a strange monster leaps off the screen and needs to feed on humans for survival. The Putterman children Sherman and Suzy—along with Suzy's metalhead boyfriend O.D.—are left to figure out what to do.

Special Effects

Necronomicon

Necronomicon · 1993

H.P. Lovecraft anthology is divided into four segments: "The Library" which is the wraparound segment involving Lovecraft's research into the Book of The Dead and his unwitting release of a monster and his writing of the following horror segments "The Drowned", "The Cold", and "Whispers".

Special Effects Supervisor

Ghoulies

Ghoulies · 1985

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

Deathstalker

Deathstalker · 1983

MovieActionFantasy

The warrior Deathstalker is tasked by an old witch lady to obtain and unite the three powers of creation - a chalice, an amulet, and a sword - lest the evil magician Munkar get them and use them for nefarious purposes. After obtaining the sword, Deathstalker joins with other travelers going to the Big Tournament to determine the strongest warrior. The false king holds the true princess in captivity, and plots to have Deathstalker killed, and Deathstalker must fight to free the princess.

Special Effects Makeup Artist

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

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

Scanner Cop

Scanner Cop · 1994

MovieScience FictionHorror

Rookie cop Sam Staziak has a unique gift: he is a Scanner, which gives him the power to read the thoughts of others, and also to inflict great bodily harm. When a mad scientist begins using mind control to murder police officers, Sam realizes that only he and his unique gift can put an end to the mayhem.

Special Effects Supervisor

Charles Band's Evil Bong

Charles Band's Evil Bong · 2006

Charles Band's Evil Bong

MovieComedyHorror

Straight-laced nerd Alistair moves into a college dorm with hardcore marijuana users, who order an old giant bong that proves to have strange magical powers, which sends people to a bizarre drugged-out alternate realm from which there is no easy escape.

Gingerdead Man Puppeteer / Voice

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

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