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HOUSE OF SELF-INDULGENCE: ALIEN FROM LA REVIEW

1/21/2016

I love some of these retro reviews of my older films. Here's one on my film, Alien from LA. It starred Kathy Ireland and we shot it Africa. In these retro reviews the reviewer sees the layers of stylization I was trying for. Like Radioactive Dreams. I think after this film, I decided to not make the surrealistic visions I had. I tried to go less style and more straight forward. My next film was cyborg. Go figure...anyway here's the retro review of Alien From LA who originally was titled Odeon. But it was changed, of course. - Albert.

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BULLET POINTS: BLOODMATCH REVIEW

12/18/2015

Bloodmatch is an action kickboxing mystery movie. Now while that may sound like something you have never seen before, I must divulge that it was directed by Albert Pyun which means the acting and budget are on the lower end of the spectrum. When I saw lower end of the spectrum I mean the bottom. While those hindrances do not bother me, I realize certain cinephiles are choosy. If Albert Pyun is not your cup of tea you might want to look elsewhere, but if you enjoy kickboxing, suspense and a twist ending, then give 1991’s Bloodmatch a go.

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REEL GINGER MOVIE FAN - RETROSPECT

12/3/2015

Those of you out there that love trashy movies, movies with cyborgs or movies set in post apocalyptic wastelands, then chances are you’ve seen Albert Pyun’s work at least once. My first foray into the work of Albert Pyun was the Jean-Claude Van Damme action movie ‘Cyborg’ back in 1992. I had already been a Van Damme fan at this point, but I loved the whole post apocalyptic setting and after watching it, I set out to find more of Pyun’s work.

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2,500 MOVIE CHALLENGE - ARCADE REVIEW

12/2/2015

To escape her depressing home life, teenager Alex Manning (Megan Ward), whose mother (Sharon Farrell) committed suicide a few months earlier, spends most of her time hanging out with her boyfriend Greg (Bryan Dattilo) and his pals, including Nick (Peter Billingsley), Laurie (A.J. Langer) and Stilts (Seth Green), all of whom are avid gamers. After hearing that a brand new virtual reality game is being test marketed in their area, Alex, Greg and the others, determined to be the first to try it out, race to their local arcade.

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CINEMA TEMPLE - ALBERT PYUN WEEK

11/30/2015

While auteur theorists and art house idealists may be the face of film as a respectable art forms, I have always felt a stronger connection to pulp and if box office numbers are to be believed so too does most of the medium’s audience. The moving picture was conceived of as low brow entertainment, a staged magical act that was taken to an extreme, and the lifeblood of films has always been audience pleasing and often vacuous entertainment.

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OPEN CULTURE - PORTLAND ARTICLE

11/27/2015

In an article on Portland Oregon, the author has a few paragraphs about filmmakers that selected Portland to shoot their films, here's the kind words about me:

"Albert Pyun, perhaps the last great B-movie auteur, also came to Portland of the 1990s for his Andrew Dice Clay vehicle Brain Smasher… a Love Story." - ALBERT

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RADIOACTIVE FALLOUT

11/10/2015

Despite Hollywood’s absolutely atrocious record with turning video games into films, there are so many that seem ripe for adaption. Fallout in particular is one that always seemed to stick out as a contender. There are far too few post-apocalyptic tales as is, and the Fallout universe is so vast and iconic that it seems like it could make for an incredible cinematic experience.

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DREAD CENTRAL COVER RANGERS

11/10/2015

At the end of last month we got the first word on Albert Pyun’s upcoming Star Warfare Rangers and the Cyborg Witch of Endor, and now a new trailer for the film has arrived along with an expanded synopsis.
The upcoming movie stars Ellie Church, Brad Thornton, Mayling Ng, Paul Gunn, Ashley Campbell, Glenn Maynard, Kati Salowsky, Travis Krauss, and Jax Scott and introduces 18-year-old actress Cat Cakmis as Leah C6.

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ALBERT'S INSPIRATION AWARD

10/29/2015

FIRST LOOK AT STAR WARFARE RANGERS

10/26/2015

Longtime director Albert Pyun is battling some health issues, but that’s not stopping him from embarking on a new project. He’s just kicked off production in Las Vegas of Star Warfare Rangers and the Cyborg Witch of Endor, a horror-tinged sci-fi space opera he likens to “Star Wars crossed with Blackhawk Down” but with the addition of “some very nasty creatures.”

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