The Exterminator (1980) Biographies for James Glickenhaus and Mark Buntzman and Production Notes

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James Glickenhaus
James Glickenhaus, Director and Screenwriter of "The Exterminator", was born July 24th 1950, in New York City and grew up in Scarsdale, New York. He attended the University of California, Antioch, and Sarah  Lawrence, where he received a B.A.

After graduation he made educational, documentary, and industrial films in New York. He also organized and directed the Westchester Young Actor Theatre, a non-profit organisation designed to sponsor minority groups and help them develop theatrical skills.

In 1978 Glickenhaus directed his first feature, "The Astrologer (The Suicide Cult)", a science fiction horror film about a demonic cult, which was produced by Mark Huntsman.

His next venture was to write and direct the suspense thriller "The Exterminator", which stars Christopher George, Samantha Eggar and Robert Ginty, and was produced by Mark Buntzman. It was filmed on location in New York City and Marin County, California.

Mark Buntzman
Mark Buntzman, Producer of "The Exterminator", was born on July 31st, 1949, in Los Angeles, and has lived throughout the United States and Mexico. He has a B. Sc. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and did his graduate work in MIT's Sloan School of Business Management.

While still a student at MIT, Huntsman began producing scientific films, and later branched into educational and industrial films and television commercials. In 1978 he produced his first feature, "The Astrologer (The Suicide Cult)", a Science Fiction adventure picture shot in Washington, New York, England and India, written and directed by James Glickenhaus.

Buntzman's second theatrical film is "The Exterminator" in which he again teams with Glickenhaus.

Production notes
"The Exterminator" is a violently realistic suspense thriller which focuses on a young man who returns from Vietnam and takes the law into his own hands in a bloody vendetta against the New York underworld.

The production was filmed on locations in the New York area over a period of eight weeks, featuring some of the most unique stunts and special effects ever undertaken on actual locales.

After filming was completed in New York, the unit moved to California where the Vietnam battle scenes at the start of the picture were shot on locations in the Indian Dunes desert areas near Palm Springs.

These battle scenes also highlighted a number of unusual and dangerous special effects and stunts, including a beheading for which an entire animated body with facial expressions was built; a man being blown off the top of a high cliff into a canyon; and a series of large explosions.

Produced by Mark Buntzman, the film was directed by James Glickenhaus from his own original screenplay. Music for the film was composed by Academy Award winning composer Joe Renzetti who won an Oscar för Best Adaptation Score for his first film, "The Buddy Holly Story", and has since written the film music for "Stop The World" and "Fatso".

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