Lawrence Zazelenchuk
- Producer
- Director
- Writer
Lawrence Zazelenchuk was a Canadian film director, screenwriter, film producer and prosthetic makeup artist.
With savings from his work as a miner at Inco (now Vale Limited), Zazelenchuk purchased the now defunct 69 Drive-In in Sudbury. He financed, wrote, produced, directed and did special makeup effects for a handful of short horror movies photographed on 16mm film with such titles as Attack of the Brain Demons, Revenge of the Mummy, and Jami (1969), which received an Honorable Mention from the Photographic Society of America's Ten Best of 1969.
After the completion of his feature The Corpse Eaters, he sold his drive-in and bought a hotel in Florida before drinking himself to death at the early age of 36.
Today, he is considered by many to be a Canadian Herschell Gordon Lewis.
With savings from his work as a miner at Inco (now Vale Limited), Zazelenchuk purchased the now defunct 69 Drive-In in Sudbury. He financed, wrote, produced, directed and did special makeup effects for a handful of short horror movies photographed on 16mm film with such titles as Attack of the Brain Demons, Revenge of the Mummy, and Jami (1969), which received an Honorable Mention from the Photographic Society of America's Ten Best of 1969.
After the completion of his feature The Corpse Eaters, he sold his drive-in and bought a hotel in Florida before drinking himself to death at the early age of 36.
Today, he is considered by many to be a Canadian Herschell Gordon Lewis.