His movies, often dealing with fantastic themes, set in faraway lands where androids live next to humans (not in a very friendly way), dystopic planets or urban dramas where guns and high kicks speak louder than words are revered by extreme film buffs while despised by lots of film critics. He started making homemovies before reaching puberty, shooting small adventures on a borrowed 8mm camera and in the sixties, was invited by famous Japanese actor Toshirô Mifune to spend some time in the Land of The Rising Sun to learn filmmaking. His casts are a veritable who’s who in genre and non-genre filmmaking: Kris Kristofferson, Lance Henriksen, Lee Horsley, Richard Lynch, Christopher Lambert, Ice-T, Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Nouri, Bill Mumy, Michael Paré, Kevin Sorbo, Teri Hatcher, Andrew ‘Dice’ Clay and many others.