Albert Pyun Video | Clips from Films Directed and Interviews

Albert Pyun (born May 19, 1953) is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs. Some of Pyun's better known films include The Sword and the Sorcerer, Cyborg, and Nemesis. Pyun's first film, The Sword and the Sorcerer, remains his highest-grossing as of 2011, eventually earning $36,714,025 in the United States. Its opening on April 30, 1982 resulted in a gross of $4,100,886 which... MORE

Albert Pyun (born May 19, 1953) is an American film director best known for having made many low-budget B-movies and direct-to-video action films. He frequently blends kickboxing and hybrid martial arts with science fiction and dystopic or post-apocalyptic themes, which often include cyborgs. Some of Pyun's better known films include The Sword and the Sorcerer, Cyborg, and Nemesis. Pyun's first film, The Sword and the Sorcerer, remains his highest-grossing as of 2011, eventually earning $36,714,025 in the United States. Its opening on April 30, 1982 resulted in a gross of $4,100,886 which ranked the film #2 that week in America. Richard Lynch received the Best Supporting Actor Saturn award for his performance as Cromwell. Pyun's second film, Radioactive Dreams, was awarded the top festival prize of the Golden Raven at the 5th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in 1987. Pyun's career took a more mainstream turn with the thriller Dangerously Close, and the romantic adventure film, Down Twisted, starring Carey Lowell, Charles Rocket, and Courteney Cox. In the late 1980s, Pyun made Alien From L.A., featuring supermodel Kathy Ireland's acting debut; the film was later mocked LESS