{"id":2477,"date":"2020-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2477"},"modified":"2020-06-12T15:02:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T15:02:53","slug":"joel-m-reed-film-director-producer-and-screenwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=2477","title":{"rendered":"Joel M. Reed, film director, producer and screenwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joel M. Reed \u2011 an American film director, producer and screenwriter \u2011 died on April 12, 2020, aged 86, in a care facility in New York City after contracting COVID-19.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Reed is best known for directing the controversial Blood Sucking Freaks  (1976), a notorious horror comedy that was the subject of protests upon its initial release and has since achieved cult status.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Reed also directed the films Career Bed (1968), Sex by Advertisement (1969), The G.I. Executioner (Wit's End \/ Dragon Lady \/ Wild Dragon Lady; 1971), Blood Bath (Terror \/ Night and the City; 1976) and Night of the Zombies (Gamma 693 \/ Sister of Death \/ Battalion of the Living Dead; 1981).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Reed wrote and directed Blood Bath, which was produced by the Trans-Orient Entertainment Corporation and had a budget of $100,000. In a 1974 interview with The New York Times, he described the film as a "contemporary, episodic occult-horror adventure". Harve Presnell starred in the film as a producer of horror films who arranges in his studio a Black Mass.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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On March 1, 1990, Masquerade Books published a book that Reed wrote on Donald Trump called Trump: the Man, the Myth, the Scandal, which did not sell well.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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In May 2012, Reed signed with Polus Books, beginning with his short story "Zombie Wall".<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Reed wrote all the scripts of the movies he directed.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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In 2011 Reed made a comeback as an actor playing the main character Uncle Joe in the film Dead Eye, directed by Louis Affortunato. After that, Reed acted in eight more films: I Spill Your Guts (2012); Supernaturalz: Weird, Creepy & Random (2012); Trashtastic (2013); Catch of the Day (2014); The Fappening (2015); Vault of Terror II: The Undead (2015); Freak in a Basement (2018); and The Dysfunctional Mob.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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On September 17, 2018 a book by author John Szpunar was released by Headpress about Reed called Blood Sucking Freak: The Life and Films of the Incredible Joel M. Reed. In December 2018 Reed was Interviewed for a documentary about himself called Reed Unbound: The Joel M. Reed Story (2019) which chronicles his whole life and film career and was directed by Jerry Landi and Adrian Esposito.<\/p>\r\n<\/p>

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Joel M. 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