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Jim Wynorski
Jim Wynorski is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is known for making B movies, action films, creature films, softcore pornography and exploitation films, such as Deathstalker II, The Return of Swamp Thing, Raptor, Virtual Desire and The Witches of Breastwick.
In 2009, the documentary Popatopolis, directed by Clay Westervelt (and named after Tom Popatopolous, one of Wynorski's pseudonyms) chronicled his work during the making of his softcore horror film The Witches of Breastwick. The film serves as a partial biography, with clips from many of his previous films, and includes interviews with Wynorski himself, as well as his contemporaries, cast and crew.
Jim Wynorski grew up in Long Island. He flunked out of film school and went to work at the fiction department of Doubleday Publishing from 1972 to 1977. Wynorski relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the movie industry. He got a job as location manager on the TV show Breaking Away, but was fired during production. Flying back to Los Angeles, he met a fellow passenger who knew Roger Corman and arranged an introduction. Wynorski then went to work for Corman. He did publicity and began writing screenplays.
Wynorski 's first produced screenplay was Forbidden World (1982). He also wrote Sorceress for $1,000 and wrote and produced Screwballs (1983), a Porky's-style comedy.
Wynorski made his directing debut with The Lost Empire (1984).
His second film, Chopping Mall (1986), which Wynorski also produced and co-wrote, was made for Julie Corman. Julie's husband Roger Corman liked it, and hired Wynorski to make Deathstalker 2 in Argentina, then Big Bad Mama II (1987) with Angie Dickinson, and a remake of Not of this Earth (1988) with Traci Lords. He was creative consultant on Purple People Eater (1988).
Wynorski was given a $7 million budget to make The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) with Louis Jourdan. He then made Transylvania Twist and The Haunting of Morella back to back for Roger Corman.
He also made Sorority House Massacre II (1990) for Julie Corman, on sets left over from existing films. Roger Corman was impressed and got Wynorski to remake it as Sorority House Massacre III: Hard to Die. Corman "taught me all the lessons on how to make a film and how to make it look expensive when you don't have a lot of money," Wynorski says.
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Jim Wynorski
Jim Wynorski is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is known for making B movies, action films, creature films, softcore pornography and exploitation films, such as Deathstalker II, The Return of Swamp Thing, Raptor, Virtual Desire and The Witches of Breastwick.
In 2009, the documentary Popatopolis, directed by Clay Westervelt (and named after Tom Popatopolous, one of Wynorski's pseudonyms) chronicled his work during the making of his softcore horror film The Witches of Breastwick. The film serves as a partial biography, with clips from many of his previous films, and includes interviews with Wynorski himself, as well as his contemporaries, cast and crew.
Jim Wynorski grew up in Long Island. He flunked out of film school and went to work at the fiction department of Doubleday Publishing from 1972 to 1977. Wynorski relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the movie industry. He got a job as location manager on the TV show Breaking Away, but was fired during production. Flying back to Los Angeles, he met a fellow passenger who knew Roger Corman and arranged an introduction. Wynorski then went to work for Corman. He did publicity and began writing screenplays.
Wynorski 's first produced screenplay was Forbidden World (1982). He also wrote Sorceress for $1,000 and wrote and produced Screwballs (1983), a Porky's-style comedy.
Wynorski made his directing debut with The Lost Empire (1984).
His second film, Chopping Mall (1986), which Wynorski also produced and co-wrote, was made for Julie Corman. Julie's husband Roger Corman liked it, and hired Wynorski to make Deathstalker 2 in Argentina, then Big Bad Mama II (1987) with Angie Dickinson, and a remake of Not of this Earth (1988) with Traci Lords. He was creative consultant on Purple People Eater (1988).
Wynorski was given a $7 million budget to make The Return of Swamp Thing (1989) with Louis Jourdan. He then made Transylvania Twist and The Haunting of Morella back to back for Roger Corman.
He also made Sorority House Massacre II (1990) for Julie Corman, on sets left over from existing films. Roger Corman was impressed and got Wynorski to remake it as Sorority House Massacre III: Hard to Die. Corman "taught me all the lessons on how to make a film and how to make it look expensive when you don't have a lot of money," Wynorski says.