December 26, 2016
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New Interview about Ninja Busters Blu-ray Release.
Ninja Busters and Death Machines have recently been released with my into and director's commentary.
Read it here: http://theactionelite.com/2016/12/interview-with-paul-kyriazi/
Here's the first part:
Paul, it’s great to see that a couple of your films have gotten recent Blu-ray releases. For many people these are like “brand new” movies. Your movie Ninja Busters in particular was virtually lost for several decades. Talk a little bit about how Ninja Busters was finally able to see the light of day. Why did it sit on a shelf undiscovered for so long?
It’s a 30-year story, David. When I got Ninja Busters to the final print back in 1984, I told the producer that it would be best for him to sell it country by country at the American Film Market, so he would get his money back. He, instead, gave the one print of the movie to a small distributor who sold it a few places, never paid the producer and ended up in prison for stealing money from many other movies including Ninja Busters.
In 2012, film collector Harry Guerro, of Exhumed Films and Garage House Pictures, was informed of a possible film storage room in California, on the edge of the Mojave desert, where there might be some trashed movies. In a “hell-hole of a room” as Harry calls it, there were 200 movies in rusty film cans. Many of the prints had turned to rust and rusted right out of the metal cans they were in. However, the print of Ninja Busters was amongst them and in good shape. So Harry loaded up the 200 prints into a rental truck and drove across America to New Jersey.
He showed Ninja Busters along with many other ‘exploitation movies’ at his Ex-Fest Marathon, a three-day film festival. People continued talking about the movie throughout the festival, so Harry figured that Ninja Busters was worth a Blu-ray release. Harry contacted me about supporting the project and doing an introduction and director’s commentary track.
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