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Title: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on July 17, 2019, 03:22:54 PM i.e. directors who only have one solitary directing credit to their name (according to imdb)...
Buddy Cooper: THE MUTILATOR https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0177908/filmotype/director?ref_=m_nmfm_2 I love this film so much. in my top 10 bad movies of all time for sure, and maybe creeping into my top 10, period! apparently Buddy had a choice between buying a vineyard or making a movie. I'm glad he chose the latter. never directed anything before or since. feel free to add on any more movie one-hit wonders. (I'm aware some directors use pseudonyms, so those would not count) edit The one-hit-wonder parade: THE MUTILATOR (Buddy Cooper) THE NOSTRIL PICKER (Mark Nowicki) DEMENTIA (John Parker) TOXIC ZOMBIES (Charles McCrann) NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton) MANOS THE HANDS OF FATE (Harold P. Warren) THE NAILGUN MASSACRE (Bill Leslie & Terry Lofton) ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (James William Guercio) MYSTERY MEN (Kinka Usher) PHASE IV (Saul Bass) RETURN TO OZ (Walter Murch) CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC (Nancy Walker) THE CREEPING TERROR (Vic Savage) RABBIT TEST (Joan Rivers) MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (Steven King) AFTER LAST SEASON (Mark Region) Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on July 17, 2019, 03:47:09 PM here's another
Mark Nowicki: THE NOSTRIL PICKER https://m.imdb.com/name/nm1713004/filmotype/director?ref_=m_nmfm_2 I'm a big fan of this one as well. low quality in every way but very off the wall for a slasher Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Rev. Powell on July 17, 2019, 05:20:54 PM The guy who made DEMENTIA/DAUGHTER OF HORROR.
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662368/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662368/) Almost nothing is known of his life. (He has another IMDB credit but it appears to be just a remix of DAUGHTER OF HORROR by someone else decades later). Charles Laughton famously gave up directing after NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (a masterpiece) flopped, though he may have helped co-direct an earlier movie uncredited. Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: dcj2112 on July 17, 2019, 06:24:39 PM Charles McCrann only directed Toxic Zombies. It was made in 1980 and he didn’t do really anything else in film before passing away during the 9/11 attacks.
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Svengoolie 3 on July 17, 2019, 06:33:50 PM Harold P. Warren, who directed "Xxxxx the xxxxx of xxxx. ". (Sorry but I don't want to curse the board by naming the most accursed of movies. The only movie so bad the mads apologized to Joe and the bots form showing it to them.)
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on July 17, 2019, 06:59:10 PM Bill Leslie and Terry Lofton: THE NAIL GUN MASSACRE
https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0504065/filmotype/director?ref_=m_nmfm_1 https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0517475/filmotype/director?ref_=m_nmfm_2 one co-directing credit each, making them...half-hit wonders? Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: RCMerchant on July 17, 2019, 07:25:44 PM Harold P. Warren, who directed "Xxxxx the xxxxx of xxxx. ". (Sorry but I don't want to curse the board by naming the most accursed of movies. The only movie so bad the mads apologized to Joe and the bots form showing it to them.) Aw- MANOS is great! :thumbup: Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Allhallowsday on July 17, 2019, 08:00:27 PM Harold P. Warren, who directed "Xxxxx the xxxxx of xxxx. ". (Sorry but I don't want to curse the board by naming the most accursed of movies. The only movie so bad the mads apologized to Joe and the bots form showing it to them.) Aw- MANOS is great! :thumbup: Crapola I think I own this kinematic kuh-rap. One of the reasons this site was named BADMOVIES was because we LIKE crap like MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE. :thumbdown: :teddyr: Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: RCMerchant on July 17, 2019, 08:16:30 PM Harold P. Warren, who directed "Xxxxx the xxxxx of xxxx. ". (Sorry but I don't want to curse the board by naming the most accursed of movies. The only movie so bad the mads apologized to Joe and the bots form showing it to them.) Aw- MANOS is great! :thumbup: Crapola I think I own this kinematic kuh-rap. One of the reasons this site was named BADMOVIES was because we LIKE crap like MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE. :thumbdown: :teddyr: Yassir! Arafat! :thumbup: Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Svengoolie 3 on July 17, 2019, 10:49:56 PM Purpotedly if you stand in front if a mirror and say "Xxxx the xxxxxx of xxxx" 3 times the ghost of Cecil B. DeMille will come and strangle yoiu with a length of celluooid film.
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Trevor on July 18, 2019, 01:36:23 AM I nominate Michael Cimino.
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on July 18, 2019, 08:56:43 AM I nominate Michael Cimino. he has 7 or 8 directing credits on imdb...unless I'm missing something? :smile: Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: bob on July 18, 2019, 10:25:38 AM I nominate Michael Cimino. I'll respectfully disagree with Trevor as I really like both The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Trevor on July 18, 2019, 10:35:21 AM I mean he scored big with The Deer Hunter and to a lesser extent with Thunderbolt & Lightfoot, but his career crashed and burned with Heaven's Gate which I had to sit through in 1981.
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on July 18, 2019, 10:43:37 AM yeah, but I'm just talking about guys who literally directed one movie :thumbup:
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Trevor on July 18, 2019, 10:50:20 AM yeah, but I'm just talking about guys who literally directed one movie :thumbup: Oh, got it. James William Guercio who directed Electra Glide In Blue. Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: RCMerchant on July 18, 2019, 10:52:15 AM The guy who made DEMENTIA/DAUGHTER OF HORROR. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662368/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662368/) Almost nothing is known of his life. (He has another IMDB credit but it appears to be just a remix of DAUGHTER OF HORROR by someone else decades later). It's rumored that the film was actually directed by producer Bruno DeSota, who's best known as an actor (remember the fat guy in ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES?). Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Rev. Powell on July 18, 2019, 10:57:09 AM The guy who made DEMENTIA/DAUGHTER OF HORROR. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662368/ (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662368/) Almost nothing is known of his life. (He has another IMDB credit but it appears to be just a remix of DAUGHTER OF HORROR by someone else decades later). It's rumored that the film was actually directed by producer Bruno DeSota, who's best known as an actor (remember the fat guy in ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES?). I think even DeSota himself only claimed to have co-directed it. Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on July 18, 2019, 11:03:19 AM yeah, but I'm just talking about guys who literally directed one movie :thumbup: Oh, got it. James William Guercio who directed Electra Glide In Blue. nice. never heard of it, but the imdb reviews make me want to see it...sounds really good. Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: claws on July 18, 2019, 12:16:23 PM Mystery Men (1999) by Kinka Usher. He is a TV commercial director, Mystery Men was his only feature film.
Phase IV (1974) by Saul Bass. When Phase IV flopped he decided not to direct anymore. Return to Oz (1985) by Walter Murch. and of course Tommy Wiseau. Only one movie :teddyr: Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Rev. Powell on July 18, 2019, 12:33:00 PM and of course Tommy Wiseau. Only one movie :teddyr: Still true until September: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9755806/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9755806/) Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: claws on July 18, 2019, 12:35:35 PM and of course Tommy Wiseau. Only one movie :teddyr: Still true until September: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9755806/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9755806/) May god help us ... only kidding. Looking forward to anything Wiseau unleashes. Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on July 18, 2019, 04:08:19 PM and of course Tommy Wiseau. Only one movie :teddyr: Still true until September: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9755806/ (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9755806/) Oh hi shark edit.. yes I appear to be the trillionth person to make that joke on the net... Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Svengoolie 3 on July 18, 2019, 05:45:50 PM Mystery Men (1999) by Kinka Usher. He is a TV commercial director, Mystery Men was his only feature film. Phase IV (1974) by Saul Bass. When Phase IV flopped he decided not to direct anymore. Return to Oz (1985) by Walter Murch. and of course Tommy Wiseau. Only one movie :teddyr: Return to oz was a good movie. Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: FatFreddysCat on July 19, 2019, 06:58:55 AM Comedienne/actress Nancy Walker (of TV's "Rhoda" and Bounty paper towel commercial fame) has several TV directing credits but only directed one feature film: the 1980 disco catastrophe "Can't Stop The Music" starring the Village People.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Stop_the_Music Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: bob on July 19, 2019, 08:00:53 AM Sam Mraovich - director, producer, star and writer of one of the best bad movies out there
Ben and Arthur Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: bob on July 19, 2019, 07:24:13 PM Bradley Cooper - 2018 A Star is Born
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: lester1/2jr on July 19, 2019, 08:06:15 PM Claws - that was the first one that came to mind. AWESOME movie (phase 4)
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: RCMerchant on July 19, 2019, 08:44:21 PM Vic Savage aka A.J.Nelson, who gave us the CREEPING TERROR (1964).
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Svengoolie 3 on July 19, 2019, 09:00:20 PM Didn't Joan "b'tch mouth" Rivers direct a movie about a man getting pregnant? I think it was called "rabbit test".
One search later... Yep. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_Test_(film) Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Trevor on July 29, 2019, 04:07:46 AM yeah, but I'm just talking about guys who literally directed one movie :thumbup: Oh, got it. James William Guercio who directed Electra Glide In Blue. nice. never heard of it, but the imdb reviews make me want to see it...sounds really good. It's very good but that ending: Never saw that coming. :buggedout: :buggedout: Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: bob on July 30, 2019, 03:58:19 PM Stephen King directed Maximum Overdrive
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on July 31, 2019, 08:58:01 AM Stephen King directed Maximum Overdrive didn't even know that. interesting that he didn't direct any more, considering how many he wrote the soundtrack album by AC/DC was one of the first albums I ever bought Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Trevor on August 03, 2019, 10:44:22 AM Apologies for mentioning this film but Mark Region who directed After Last Season :buggedout:
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Rev. Powell on August 03, 2019, 10:59:03 AM Apologies for mentioning this film but Mark Region who directed After Last Season :buggedout: It's a "wonder," all right. You wonder what he was thinking, wonder why it was made, wonder how it was made... Not so much a "hit," except that maybe you feel like you're brain's been hit with a baseball bat... Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on August 03, 2019, 12:52:12 PM only ever seen a few clips of that one, couldn't watch the whole thing... just lifeless
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on August 03, 2019, 01:16:15 PM here's a rundown of what we have so far.
- not including Tommy Wiseau because of his upcoming film, Bradley Cooper because he may well direct more, and the guy that directed BEN AND ARTHUR seems to have another film he directed in 2017. THE MUTILATOR (Buddy Cooper) THE NOSTRIL PICKER (Mark Nowicki) DEMENTIA (John Parker) TOXIC ZOMBIES (Charles McCrann) NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (Charles Laughton) MANOS THE HANDS OF FATE (Harold P. Warren) THE NAILGUN MASSACRE (Bill Leslie & Terry Lofton) ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE (James William Guercio) MYSTERY MEN (Kinka Usher) PHASE IV (Saul Bass) RETURN TO OZ (Walter Murch) CAN'T STOP THE MUSIC (Nancy Walker) THE CREEPING TERROR (Vic Savage) RABBIT TEST (Joan Rivers) MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE (Steven King) AFTER LAST SEASON (Mark Region) Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Trevor on August 03, 2019, 02:10:26 PM I think Frank Sinatra directed one film too: None But The Brave.
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: zombie no.one on August 03, 2019, 02:46:20 PM yep, looks like he did...
not often you can say Frank Sinatra and "one hit wonder" in the same sentence :smile: Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: Trevor on August 03, 2019, 03:53:57 PM Jack Lemmon too: he directed the movie Kotch.
Title: Re: Director 'One Hit Wonders'.... Post by: bob on August 03, 2019, 08:48:25 PM Tom Green directed the vile filth known as Freddy Got Fingered
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