Irwin Yablans

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Irwin Yablans (born July 25, 1934 in New York City , New York ) is an American film producer .

Life

Yablans was born in Brooklyn in 1934 to a Jewish family . His younger brother was Frank Yablans , who later also became a film producer.

Yablans began his career, like his brother, at Warner Bros. This was followed by positions at Paramount Pictures and Orion Pictures . Later he turned to the international exploitation of smaller horror films. In 1976 Yablans founded the film distributor Compass International Pictures together with Joseph Wolf , and he served as its president.

After Yablans and financier Moustapha Akkad saw John Carpenter's film Attack at Night at the 1976 Milan Film Festival , they offered the young director the opportunity to make a film about a mentally ill killer who chases babysitters. In an interview with the film magazine Fangoria , Yablans said, "I was thinking about what would make sense in the horror genre and what I wanted was to make a film with the same shocking effect as The Exorcist ." Carpenter and his girlfriend at the time, Debra Hill began writing a script called The Babysitter Murders . Since the film was supposed to take place on Halloween, Yablans changed the title to Halloween . The film, for which Yablans served as executive producer, became a huge box-office hit despite mixed reviews, with numerous sequels. On the first two sequels, Yablans was still an executive producer.

After a series of flops , Yablans and Wolf had to close Compass International Pictures in 1981. He then worked for Charles Band (Empire Pictures) for a few years and produced a few smaller films before retiring from the film business in the early 1990s.

In 2012 he published his autobiography The Man Who Created Halloween .

Yablans lives in Palm Desert , California with his wife Diana .

Filmography (selection)

producer

  • 1974: The Education of Sonny Carson
  • 1981: Paranoia
  • 1982: Tele-Terror (The Seduction)
  • 1984: The Tank (Tank)
  • 1987: Prison - Return from Hell (Prison)
  • 1989: Arena - Only one survived (Arena)

executive producer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irwin Yablans, Interview with Fangoria , quoted from HalloweenMovies.com
  2. ↑ a b Cheryl Eddy: The Big Show . In: The San Francisco Bay Guardian Vol 37, No. 2 of October 10, 2012, page 33
personal data
SURNAME Yablans, Irwin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States