Directing

Paul Bunnell

Born 1963-08-09 · Glendale, California, USA

PAUL BUNNELL (Writer, Producer, Director) began his cinematic journey in 1963 when a doctor first slapped him on the rear and the sound of a movie projector came out! An avid film collector since childhood, Paul’s early influences were Alfred Hitchcock, Bob Hope, and Walt Disney. His all-time favorite movie is Brian De Palma’s Phantom of the Paradise. Paul’s “film school years” consisted of him sneaking onto Hollywood sets to see how they were made. He studied master directors like Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Tim Burton, and even David Lynch, whom he later befriended. Some of the movies Paul wrote, produced, and directed include The Visitant, Final Destination Unknown, That Little Monster and his personal favorite, the sci-fi musical comedy The Ghastly Love of Johnny X, which has the dubious honor of being the lowest grossing theatrical film of 2012, and the last movie ever to be shot on Kodak Plus-X black-and-white film stock. Paul wanted to make A Blind Bargain seem like it could have been an episode of Rod Serling's Night Gallery. By shooting on Kodak film and using cinematic techniques from the period, he believes he has achieved this to his satisfaction.

Acting credits

War of the Worlds poster
6.6

Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.

War of the Worlds

2005

No artwork available
2.0

A catatonic serial killer is put under a deep hypnosis in order to free his last victim, and revive him into coming to terms with the sadistic sexual acts he is responsible for. An amnesiac detective searching for a serial killer, finds out he is the prime suspect. Criminal psychiatrists and psychologists watch and listen to the mysteries unfold.

Noirland

2020

Bikini Airways poster
5.1

The sexy fun flies fast and furious as Teri inherits a failing airline that's deep in debt. To turn things around, she and her girlfriends decide to charter the plane out for flying bachelor parties with great success!

Bikini Airways

2003

The Electric Man poster
2.6

When Trace McNeil experiences a 12,000 volt shock, his life becomes a psychedelic blur of reality and fantasy in this science fiction drama.

The Electric Man

2022

Deathrow Gameshow poster
5.6

Chuck Toedan hosts the most controversial show on TV: Live or Die, where deathrow inmates compete against each other for a chance to beat the executioner. However, when he accidentally kills a mob boss of the most feared mafia in the city, a hit man tries to put an end to him and his show once and for all. As a battle of wits and survival ensues, Chuck is forced to engage in the very tactics he uses on his contestants, or die trying.

Deathrow Gameshow

1987

The Deceased Won't Desist! poster
5.7

Beneficiaries gather for the reading of a will. Murders ensue.

The Deceased Won't Desist!

2021

That Little Monster poster
4.1

A young teenage girl is hired by a strange couple to watch their baby for the night. What the babysitter doesn't know is how strange the couple is, and exactly what kind of baby she is watching over.

That Little Monster

1994

Strange Tales poster
NR

Aliens! Junkyard hoes! This highly varied anthology of whacked out stories, some of which have no real dialogue, pretty much all of which will leave you wondering what the hell is going on. Most have really cool music that sets the mood, some genuinely creepy moments and good atmosphere throughout. The first story, "The Visitant", features a man in a cemetery visiting his dead son's grave after he died in a car accident. He is soon tormented by visions of his son, as well as other spirits, including an axe-wielding ghoul! The second story, entitled, "Desire In A Public Dump", starts out with a man in a junkyard fixating on a paper with an attractive woman on it. The picture then disappears, and the woman is suddenly in front of him!

Strange Tales

1986

The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster poster
NR

Feature compilation of four Biffle and Shooster comedy shorts--"The Biffle Murder Case," "Imitation of Wife," "Schmo Boat" and "Bride of Finklestein"--plus five additional songs and sketches.

The Adventures of Biffle and Shooster

2015

The God Complex poster
8.2

The God Complex is an irreverent, ultra‑low‑budget biblical satire that deliberately mocks well‑known stories from the Bible, turning God and key figures into broad comic caricatures. Rather than treating Scripture with any reverence, the film uses parody, crude humor, and exaggerated “logical” twists specifically to ridicule Christian beliefs and present the Bible’s narratives as silly and absurd.

The God Complex

2009

Shadow of the Dragon poster
4.7

Tony Baker (Jimmy Williams), a Vietnam vet who is now an L.A. detective, is on the trail of the 'Mekong Dragon', assisted by his partner Brian O'Malley (Sandy Palm) and police Captain Washington (Robert Z'Dar).

Shadow of the Dragon

1992

Final Destinations poster
NR

Underneath this nice sleazy-looking box art that has absolutely nothing to do with the films, comes this cool & bizarre little Horror/Thriller anthology thingy called Final Destinations, featuring 4 different macabre tales with "the road" being a general theme, as they all have some driving or vehicles involved in the stories. Playing out like the Twilight Zone or a "Tales From..." with plenty of black humor in the mix, they're all actually pretty interesting and quite well-made considering the small budgets I imagine the filmmakers were working with.

Final Destinations

1990

No artwork available
8.0

An experiment with a new kind of hallucinatory-drug from Africa goes terribly wrong for college student Jim Allen, and horrifically right for Professor Von Dorm. Jim is transported into another dimension as the professor conjures up evil spirits in an attempt to obtain eternal life. The bad guys win as Jim ultimately becomes "obliterated" from reality and is forever locked in a world governed by demons.

Obliteration

1984

7th Revelation poster
3.0

A slow slide into insanity as a group of distance workers discover their work-from-home mandate is part of dark and deceptive conspiracy meant to dwindle the numbers of middle class workers.

7th Revelation

2020

The Visitant poster
7.0

A graveside visit turns out to be a never-ending nightmare for a grieving father. Restless spirits and ghastly visitations materialize in the cemetery as if to warn the man of some impending doom.

The Visitant

1981

Behind the camera

A Blind Bargain poster
NR

Reimagining the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film of the same name, a desperate young man in the 1970s strikes a dark deal with an unhinged doctor, offering his mother as a subject for the physician's twisted experiments.

A Blind Bargain

2025

A Blind Bargain poster
NR

Reimagining the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film of the same name, a desperate young man in the 1970s strikes a dark deal with an unhinged doctor, offering his mother as a subject for the physician's twisted experiments.

A Blind Bargain

2025

A Blind Bargain poster
NR

Reimagining the lost 1922 Lon Chaney silent film of the same name, a desperate young man in the 1970s strikes a dark deal with an unhinged doctor, offering his mother as a subject for the physician's twisted experiments.

A Blind Bargain

2025

That Little Monster poster
4.1

A young teenage girl is hired by a strange couple to watch their baby for the night. What the babysitter doesn't know is how strange the couple is, and exactly what kind of baby she is watching over.

That Little Monster

1994

That Little Monster poster
4.1

A young teenage girl is hired by a strange couple to watch their baby for the night. What the babysitter doesn't know is how strange the couple is, and exactly what kind of baby she is watching over.

That Little Monster

1994

Strange Tales poster
NR

Aliens! Junkyard hoes! This highly varied anthology of whacked out stories, some of which have no real dialogue, pretty much all of which will leave you wondering what the hell is going on. Most have really cool music that sets the mood, some genuinely creepy moments and good atmosphere throughout. The first story, "The Visitant", features a man in a cemetery visiting his dead son's grave after he died in a car accident. He is soon tormented by visions of his son, as well as other spirits, including an axe-wielding ghoul! The second story, entitled, "Desire In A Public Dump", starts out with a man in a junkyard fixating on a paper with an attractive woman on it. The picture then disappears, and the woman is suddenly in front of him!

Strange Tales

1986

Strange Tales poster
NR

Aliens! Junkyard hoes! This highly varied anthology of whacked out stories, some of which have no real dialogue, pretty much all of which will leave you wondering what the hell is going on. Most have really cool music that sets the mood, some genuinely creepy moments and good atmosphere throughout. The first story, "The Visitant", features a man in a cemetery visiting his dead son's grave after he died in a car accident. He is soon tormented by visions of his son, as well as other spirits, including an axe-wielding ghoul! The second story, entitled, "Desire In A Public Dump", starts out with a man in a junkyard fixating on a paper with an attractive woman on it. The picture then disappears, and the woman is suddenly in front of him!

Strange Tales

1986

Terrifying Tales poster
4.3

Terrifying Tales contains three independently-produced shorts running about 20 minutes apiece. Only one of the three; Paul Bunnell's "Final Destination: Unknown" (copyrighted 1989), is actually horror. The other two; Armand Garabidian's "Ten Seconds to Countdown" (copyrighted 1986) and Ephraim Schwartz's "Creatures of Habit" (also 1986), are, respectively, science fiction and drama with only slight mystery components. The three used here are connected only in that they were shorts made by UCLA graduate students. Sadly, none of them is very good. The opening title screens and closing credits have been left intact for each.

Terrifying Tales

1989

Final Destinations poster
NR

Underneath this nice sleazy-looking box art that has absolutely nothing to do with the films, comes this cool & bizarre little Horror/Thriller anthology thingy called Final Destinations, featuring 4 different macabre tales with "the road" being a general theme, as they all have some driving or vehicles involved in the stories. Playing out like the Twilight Zone or a "Tales From..." with plenty of black humor in the mix, they're all actually pretty interesting and quite well-made considering the small budgets I imagine the filmmakers were working with.

Final Destinations

1990

Final Destinations poster
NR

Underneath this nice sleazy-looking box art that has absolutely nothing to do with the films, comes this cool & bizarre little Horror/Thriller anthology thingy called Final Destinations, featuring 4 different macabre tales with "the road" being a general theme, as they all have some driving or vehicles involved in the stories. Playing out like the Twilight Zone or a "Tales From..." with plenty of black humor in the mix, they're all actually pretty interesting and quite well-made considering the small budgets I imagine the filmmakers were working with.

Final Destinations

1990

Final Destinations poster
NR

Underneath this nice sleazy-looking box art that has absolutely nothing to do with the films, comes this cool & bizarre little Horror/Thriller anthology thingy called Final Destinations, featuring 4 different macabre tales with "the road" being a general theme, as they all have some driving or vehicles involved in the stories. Playing out like the Twilight Zone or a "Tales From..." with plenty of black humor in the mix, they're all actually pretty interesting and quite well-made considering the small budgets I imagine the filmmakers were working with.

Final Destinations

1990

No artwork available
8.0

An experiment with a new kind of hallucinatory-drug from Africa goes terribly wrong for college student Jim Allen, and horrifically right for Professor Von Dorm. Jim is transported into another dimension as the professor conjures up evil spirits in an attempt to obtain eternal life. The bad guys win as Jim ultimately becomes "obliterated" from reality and is forever locked in a world governed by demons.

Obliteration

1984

No artwork available
8.0

An experiment with a new kind of hallucinatory-drug from Africa goes terribly wrong for college student Jim Allen, and horrifically right for Professor Von Dorm. Jim is transported into another dimension as the professor conjures up evil spirits in an attempt to obtain eternal life. The bad guys win as Jim ultimately becomes "obliterated" from reality and is forever locked in a world governed by demons.

Obliteration

1984

The Ghastly Love of Johnny X poster
6.3

A truly mad concoction, blending 1950s juvenile delinquents, sci-fi melodrama, song-and-dance, and a touch of horror, everything in just the right combination to create an engaging big screen spectacle! This curious and curiously entertaining story involves one Jonathan Xavier and his devoted misfit gang who, incidentally, have been exiled to Earth from the far reaches of outer space. Johnny's former girlfriend Bliss has left him and stolen his Resurrection Suit, a cosmic, mind-bending uniform that gives the owner power over others. Along the way, there will be several highly stylized musical numbers, lots of genuinely humorous dialogue, and a wacky plot-twist or two, all beautifully captured on the very last of Kodak's black-and-white Plus-X film stock.

The Ghastly Love of Johnny X

2012

The Ghastly Love of Johnny X poster
6.3

A truly mad concoction, blending 1950s juvenile delinquents, sci-fi melodrama, song-and-dance, and a touch of horror, everything in just the right combination to create an engaging big screen spectacle! This curious and curiously entertaining story involves one Jonathan Xavier and his devoted misfit gang who, incidentally, have been exiled to Earth from the far reaches of outer space. Johnny's former girlfriend Bliss has left him and stolen his Resurrection Suit, a cosmic, mind-bending uniform that gives the owner power over others. Along the way, there will be several highly stylized musical numbers, lots of genuinely humorous dialogue, and a wacky plot-twist or two, all beautifully captured on the very last of Kodak's black-and-white Plus-X film stock.

The Ghastly Love of Johnny X

2012

The Visitant poster
7.0

A graveside visit turns out to be a never-ending nightmare for a grieving father. Restless spirits and ghastly visitations materialize in the cemetery as if to warn the man of some impending doom.

The Visitant

1981

The Visitant poster
7.0

A graveside visit turns out to be a never-ending nightmare for a grieving father. Restless spirits and ghastly visitations materialize in the cemetery as if to warn the man of some impending doom.

The Visitant

1981