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I started making my own movie. It was a film called “My Best Friend’s Birthday” and it originally started out on Super 8. Then this film director, Fred Olen Ray, and I met.
Feb 20, 2024 · April 12, 2023. Trans World Entertainment. It’s nearly impossible to determine the highlight of Fred Olen Ray’s exhausting filmography. The prolific B-movie maestro, inadvertently...
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He has also worked for other well-known independent studios and on a few occasions for major Hollywood studios. He has been cited as an inspiration for many independent filmmakers. He loaned a 16 mm camera to Quentin Tarantino so he could make My Best Friend's Birthday. Aside from his work in the film industry, Ray was also a professional wrestler.
Sep 5, 2023 · So Hamman and Tarantino, who was barely eking by as a video store clerk at the time, cobbled a cast and crew together, borrowed a 16mm camera from schlockmeister Fred Olen Ray, and, with a...
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When you think of cinephile director’s, the names that usually come to mind are Joe Dante, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino...but what about Fred Olen Ray? Ray is the filmmaker behind such video store classics as EVIL TOONS, HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS, and ARMED RESPONSE, but he’s also a massive film fan.
The film also jump-started the career of prodigious Hollywood director/producer (and sometimes professional wrestler) Fred Olen Ray, who is also known for having loaned Quentin Tarantino his first 16mm camera to make My Best Friend's Birthday.
