John Carl Buechler

John Carl Buechler

Born: June 18, 1952
Died: March 18, 2019
in Belleville, Illinois, USA
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, 1952, in Belleville (Illinois), and he died on March 18, 2019, in Los Angeles (Califronia).

Movies for John Carl Buechler...

Beneath the Black Veil
Title: Beneath the Black Veil
Character: Mr. Jensen
Released: December 13, 2019
Type: Movie
After losing their child in a horrific accident, Aaron and Genna's once idyllic life is turned upside down. They begin to question how a loving God could take their little boy from them. Desperate to seek revenge against God, they begin to break each of the ten commandments. But their desire for vengeance will be bittersweet.
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To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story
Title: To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story
Character: Self
Released: August 26, 2017
Type: Movie
To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story is the harrowing story of a stuntman overcoming a dehumanizing childhood filled with torment and bullying in Sparks, Nevada. After surviving a near-death burn accident, he worked his way up through Hollywood, leading to his ultimate rise as Jason Voorhees in the Friday the 13th series and making countless moviegoers forever terrified of hockey masks and summer camp. Featuring interviews with cinema legends, including Bruce Campbell (Ash vs. Evil Dead), Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger), and Cassandra Peterson (Elvira: Mistress of the Dark), To Hell and Back peels off the mask of Kane Hodder, cinema's most prolific killer, in a gut-wrenching, but inspiring, documentary. After decades of watching Kane Hodder on screen, get ready to meet the man behind the mask in To Hell and Back - an uniquely human story about one of cinema's most vicious monsters.
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Troll Empire
Title: Troll Empire
Character: Self
Released: November 17, 2015
Type: Movie
A "making of" the first Troll Movie
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Behind the Mask: The Making of The Phantom of the Opera
Title: Behind the Mask: The Making of The Phantom of the Opera
Character: Self
Released: February 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes feature for 'The Phantom of the Opera' (1989). Included on the Shout! Factory blu-ray.
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Catch of the Day
Title: Catch of the Day
Character: Detective Martin Spangler
Released: September 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Officer Rod Davis becomes embedded undercover when a cartel starts bringing drugs into the city through fish shipments. He soon finds himself and his city under siege when a scientist accidentally creates mutant fish people with a poisonous bite. It's up to the rookie cop and a sexy lab assistant to find the drug stash and destroy the crime lord controlling the mutant monsters, but it turns personal when Rod's sister is kidnapped. Are they fighting giant mutant fish monsters just for the halibut? See the badge, bass, and ass in a horror-comedy that you won't want to throw back... because it's the "Catch of the Day."
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Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
Title: Crystal Lake Memories: The Complete History of Friday the 13th
Character: Self - Director
Released: September 13, 2013
Type: Movie
Taking inspiration from Peter M. Bracke's definitive book of the same name, this seven-hour documentary dives into the making of all twelve Friday the 13th films, with all-new interviews from the cast and the crew.
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Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
Title: Slice and Dice: The Slasher Film Forever
Character: Himself
Released: October 7, 2012
Type: Movie
A celebration of slasher cinema - from PSYCHO to the present day, with a focus on highlighting many of the genre's forgotten cult classics, deconstructing how to survive a slice and dice movie and meditating upon why it is almost always a final girl and rarely a final guy... this is a documentary which is designed for both the biggest fan of "mad maniac" movies and the person who may only have seen HALLOWEEN and SCREAM. Either way, this is a documentary that proves the SLASHER FILM is truly FOREVER!
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Hallow Pointe
Title: Hallow Pointe
Character: Lazlo
Released: December 12, 2010
Type: Movie
The film is centered around Madeline’s Closet, a quaint bed and breakfast hidden away from the world on a forgotten dirt road in the woods. Henry and Jane are hoping a weekend there will help rekindle their love for each other. Staying there, along with a few other guests, everything seems to be going as planned…until the sun sets and the full moon lights up the sky. Instead of trying to save their marriage they must now work together to try and save their lives.
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Hatchet II
Title: Hatchet II
Character: Jack Cracker
Released: August 26, 2010
Type: Movie
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.
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Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Title: Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy
Character: Self
Released: May 4, 2010
Type: Movie
For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office across eight terrifying, spectacular films.
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His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
Title: His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
Character: Self
Released: April 20, 2010
Type: Movie
A retrospective documentary about the groundbreaking horror series, Friday the 13th, featuring interviews with cast and crew from the twelve films spanning 3 decades.
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Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust
Title: Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust
Character: Orson Biggs
Released: July 4, 2008
Type: Movie
The horrifying yet delicious and chewy Gingerdead Man causes murder and mayhem on the set of a horrible low budget movie set. It will take the determination of the studio's young new owner to save both his company and well as the lives of his young new friends. Including a terminally ill young boy whose final wish it was to meet the studios stars - The Tiny Terrors.
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Evil Bong
Title: Evil Bong
Character: Gingerdead Man Puppeteer / Voice
Released: October 31, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Hatchet
Title: Hatchet
Character: Jack Cracker
Released: April 27, 2006
Type: Movie
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.
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Secrets Galore Behind the Gore
Title: Secrets Galore Behind the Gore
Character: Himself
Released: October 5, 2004
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes of Friday the 13th.
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Friday the 13th: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan (Crystal Lake Victims Tell All - Documentary)
Title: Friday the 13th: From Crystal Lake to Manhattan (Crystal Lake Victims Tell All - Documentary)
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 2004
Type: Movie
Behind-the-scenes featurette detailing the production of the 'Friday The 13th' movies.
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The Friday the 13th Chronicles
Title: The Friday the 13th Chronicles
Character: Self
Released: October 5, 2004
Type: Movie
2004 docu-drama film franchise to Crystal Lake to Manhattan.
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Not of This Earth
Title: Not of This Earth
Character: The Other
Released: September 5, 1995
Type: Movie
An anemic alien comes to Earth from a dying planet, in the remake of the Corman 50s classic.
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The Sleeping Car
Title: The Sleeping Car
Character: The Mister
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Jason (David Naughton) moves into an abandoned train car where he resurrects the vicious ghost of his landlady's dead husband... The Mister. After some near-fatal encounters with the violent specter he seeks local exorcist Vincent Tuttle (Kevin McCarthy).
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The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Tsui Hark & Stuart Gordon
Title: The Incredibly Strange Film Show: Tsui Hark & Stuart Gordon
Character: Self
Released: October 20, 1989
Type: Movie
Jonathan Ross travels to Hong Kong to explore the inventive cinema of Action / Sci-Fi / Fantasy master filmmaker Tsui Hark, taking a detour to explore the underbelly of Asian exploitation cinema. Former experimental theatre director Stuart Gordon discusses his breakthrough film Re-Animator at the La Brea tar pits, and producer Brian Yuzna and Jeffrey Combs are interviewed on the set of the sequel Bride of Re-animator.
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Troll
Title: Troll
Character: Sorcerer (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 1986
Type: Movie
When a family moves into a San Francisco apartment, an opportunistic troll decides to make his move and take possession of little Wendy (Jenny Beck), 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.
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Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
Title: Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Actors, directors and special effects technicians are interviewed at a horror-film convention.
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Fright Show
Title: Fright Show
Character: (segment "The Thing in the Basement")
Released: October 11, 1985
Type: Movie
Two obscure film critics host four SF/Horror films: The Thing in the Basement, Illegal Alien, Nightfright, and Dr. Dobermind.
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The Horror of It All
Title: The Horror of It All
Character: Self
Released: February 23, 1983
Type: Movie
A collection of film clips from horror movies and interviews with the actors and directors who made them.
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Stingray
Title: Stingray
Character: The Flamer
Released: August 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Lonigan and his partner Tony, two drug dealers, shoot two cops who attempt to set them up, and run away with a million bucks and the drugs, which they stash in a red Corvette Stingray in a used car lot. When they attempt to recover their stash with their leader, Abigail, they find out that two happy-go-lucky dudes, Elmo and Al, have bought the car. They quickly pursue the two along with the police who think that the car's new owners are the criminals.
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Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures
Title: Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland: The Saga of Empire Pictures
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The official feature-length documentary about the rise and fall of Charles Band's legendary Empire Pictures studio.