James Bryan(I)
- Sound Department
- Director
- Writer
Cinematic jack of all trades James Bryan has had an extremely varied
and colorful career in the wild world of low-budget maverick
underground independent cinema. Bryan hails from Lufkin, Texas. He was
originally a pre-med student at Stephen F. Austin University in
Nacogdoches, Texas. James decided to switch majors while attending
Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and subsequently transferred to the
UCLA Film School in 1965. Bryan made his film debut with the animated
UCLA student short project "Inner Limits." He graduated from UCLA in
the late 60s. His first two theatrical features were the soft-core
entries "Escape to Passion" and "The Dirtiest Game" in 1970. James'
other movies are the downbeat "adults only" melodrama "I Love You, I
Love You Not," the funky comedy "Boogievision," the amusingly cruddy
biker romp "Hell Riders," the hilariously horrendous urban vigilante
opus "The Executioner, Part II," and the spectacularly shoddy action
oddity "Lady Streetfighter." Bryan achieved his greatest enduring cult
cinema notoriety with the deliciously dreadful backwoods body count
slasher schlockfest "Don't Go in the Woods." Moreover, James has worked
on other people's motion pictures as an editor, a production manager, a
post-production supervisor, a director of photography (he filmed
various pick-up shots for the outstanding vampire horror gem "Lemora: A
Child's Tale of the Supernatural"), and a production assistant. In
addition, James Bryan has handled various sound chores on a slew of
mainstream and independent films alike.
