Jim Wynorski is known for making B movies, softcore pornography, and exploitation films, such as The Witches of Breastwick.
28 Facts About Jim Wynorski
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Jim Wynorski flunked out of film school and went to work at the fiction department of DoubleDay Publishing from 1972 to 1977.
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Jim Wynorski relocated to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the movie industry.
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Jim Wynorski got a job as location manager on the TV show Breaking Away, but was fired during production.
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Jim Wynorski wrote Sorceress for $1,000 and wrote and produced Screwballs, a Porky's-style comedy.
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Jim Wynorski made his directing debut with The Lost Empire.
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Julie's husband Corman liked it, and hired Jim Wynorski to make Deathstalker 2 in Argentina, then Big Bad Mama II with Angie Dickinson, and a remake of Not of this Earth with Traci Lords.
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Jim Wynorski was creative consultant on Purple People Eater.
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Jim Wynorski was given a $7 million budget to make The Return of Swamp Thing with Louis Jourdan.
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Jim Wynorski then made Transylvania Twist and The Haunting of Morella back to back for Roger Corman.
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Jim Wynorski made Sorority House Massacre II for Julie Corman, on sets left over from existing films.
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Roger Corman was impressed and got Jim Wynorski to remake it as Sorority House Massacre III: Hard to Die.
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Jim Wynorski worked on the scripts for Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time, House IV, and Final Embrace, but did not direct them.
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Jim Wynorski directed 976-Evil II, which was produced by Paul Hertzberg, with whom Wynorski would frequently collaborate.
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Jim Wynorski made two films for Corman's Showtime series, Roger Corman Presents: a remake of The Wasp Woman and Vampirella.
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Ray produced Sorceress, which Jim Wynorski directed, and Jim Wynorski helped produce Bikini Drive-In, Fugitive Rage, Friend of the Family II, and Hybrid, which Ray directed.
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Jim Wynorski made Munchie, marking the film debut of Jennifer Love Hewitt; and its sequel, Munchie Strikes Back.
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Jim Wynorski directed A Doggone Christmas, which spawned a sequel A Doggone Hollywood.
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In 1998, Jim Wynorski appeared in a documentary Some Nudity Required where he said he got into film "for the money and the chicks" and said "breasts are the cheapest special effect in the business".
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Jim Wynorski established his own production company, Sunset Films, which he ran with Andrew Stevens.
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Jim Wynorski directed some of Sunset's films including Hard Bounty, Demolition High, Against the Law, Storm Trooper, and Desert Thunder.
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Jim Wynorski did not direct the sequel to Demolition High, Demolition University, but produced and co-wrote it.
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Jim Wynorski produced some films that he did not direct, such as Fugitive Mind ; Sonic Impact ; Active Stealth, Submerged, Kept, Air Rage, Critical Mass, Venomous, all directed by Ray; Storm Catcher ; Jill Rips with Dolph Lundgren; Intrepid, with James Coburn.
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Jim Wynorski often worked with producer and actor Andrew Stevens, who called in Wynorski to shoot additional scenes for Agent Red.
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Jim Wynorski made several other erotic parody movies, including Busty Cops and its several sequels, The Witches of Breastwick and its sequel, Alabama Jones and the Busty Crusade, The Da Vinci Coed, The Breastford Wives, House on Hooter Hill, The Devil Wears Nada, Cleavagefield, Para-Knockers Activity, and The Hills Have Thighs.
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In 2001, Jim Wynorski returned to Roger Corman with Raptor.
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Jim Wynorski made Project Viper for the Sci Fi Channel.
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Jim Wynorski later made Curse of the Komodo and its sequel, Komodo vs Cobra, Gargoyle: Wings of Darkness, Cry of the Winged Serpent, Dinocroc vs Supergator, Camel Spiders, and CobraGator.