Director 'One Hit Wonders'....

zombie no.one · 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)

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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)

zombie no.one · 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

Rev. Powell · July 17, 2019, 05:20:54 PM

The guy who made DEMENTIA/DAUGHTER OF HORROR.

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.

dcj2112 · 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.

Svengoolie 3 · 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.)

zombie no.one · 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?

RCMerchant · July 17, 2019, 07:25:44 PM

Quote from: 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.)

Aw- MANOS is great!

Allhallowsday · July 17, 2019, 08:00:27 PM

Quote from: RCMerchant on July 17, 2019, 07:25:44 PM
Quote from: 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.)

Aw- MANOS is great!

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.

RCMerchant · July 17, 2019, 08:16:30 PM

Quote from: Allhallowsday on July 17, 2019, 08:00:27 PM
Quote from: RCMerchant on July 17, 2019, 07:25:44 PM
Quote from: 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.)

Aw- MANOS is great!

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.

Yassir! Arafat!

Svengoolie 3 · 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.

Trevor · July 18, 2019, 01:36:23 AM

I nominate Michael Cimino.

zombie no.one · July 18, 2019, 08:56:43 AM

Quote from: Trevor on July 18, 2019, 01:36:23 AM
I nominate Michael Cimino.

he has 7 or 8 directing credits on imdb...unless I'm missing something?

bob · July 18, 2019, 10:25:38 AM

Quote from: Trevor on July 18, 2019, 01:36:23 AM
I nominate Michael Cimino.

I'll respectfully disagree with Trevor as I really like both The Deer Hunter and Heaven's Gate

Trevor · 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.

zombie no.one · July 18, 2019, 10:43:37 AM

yeah, but I'm just talking about guys who literally directed one movie