Douglas Buck is an American film

Film

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 director

Film director

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Buck grew up in Long Island

Long Island

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, later moving to New York City

New York City

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, where he began making films while working as an airport electrical engineer

Electrical engineering

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. Buck started by making short films, including Cutting Moments

Cutting Moments

Cutting Moments is a 1997 short film written, produced and directed by Douglas Buck, in cooperation with The New School. The film was re-released in August 2004 as part of Buck's suburban holocaust collection Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America.- Synopsis :In the center of a monotonous-like...

(1997), Home (1998), and Prologue (2003), all three of which were collected together in the Family Portraits anthology. Rue Morgue magazine selected Cutting Moments as one of its "100 Alternative Horror Films". In 2004 he began making a new version of Brian De Palma

Brian De Palma

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's 1973 film Sisters starring Lou Doillon

Lou Doillon

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, Stephen Rea

Stephen Rea

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 and Chloë Sevigny

Chloë Sevigny

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, which was released in 2007, and described by Variety

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as "a worthy partner to his predecessor's famously violent slasher thriller". His latest film is The Broken Imago, an eco-horror film influenced by the 1976 Spanish

Spain

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 film Quién puede matar a un niño.

Buck also co-wrote the 1999 film Terror Firmer

Terror Firmer

Terror Firmer is a 1999 American comedy horror film, directed by Lloyd Kaufman, written by Patrick Cassidy and Douglas Buck, and starring Will Keenan and Alyce LaTourelle. The film was produced by the Troma Entertainment company, known for distributing campy exploitation films...

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Filmography

• After All (1995)
• Cutting Moments
  Cutting Moments
  Cutting Moments is a 1997 short film written, produced and directed by Douglas Buck, in cooperation with The New School. The film was re-released in August 2004 as part of Buck's suburban holocaust collection Family Portraits: A Trilogy of America.- Synopsis :In the center of a monotonous-like...
  
  (1997)
• Home (1998)
• Prologue (2003)
• Sisters
  Sisters (2006 film)
  Sisters is a 2006 independent horror film directed by Douglas Buck. It is a remake of the 1973 Brian De Palma film of the same name. The film stars Stephen Rea, Lou Doillon, and Chloë Sevigny in the leading roles, with Dallas Roberts and JR Bourne playing supporting characters...
  
  (2006)
• The Theatre Bizarre
  The Theatre Bizarre
  The Theatre Bizaree is a 2011 horror anthology film. The six segments are directed by Douglas Buck, Buddy Giovinazzo, David Gregory, Karim Hussain, Tom Savini and Richard Stanley.-Cast:*James Gill as Donnie*Kaniehtiio Horn as The Writer...
  
  (2011)
• The Broken Imago (in production)

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