Exploitation film producer and marketer was 90 – The Hollywood Reporter
Terry Levin
Courtesy of Josh Johnson
Terry Levin, the showman who, as head of Aquarius Releasing, was behind films like Bruce Lee fights from the grave And Dr. Al-Jazzar, medical deviation, He died. He was 90 years old.
Levine died on January 13 surrounded by his family in Englewood, New Jersey, Severin Films CEO Josh Johnson announced.
Levin works from an office above the Selwyn Theater on West 42nd Street in New York, where he creatively marketed low-budget American features including Isaac Hayes: The Black Muse of the Soul (1973) and Silent night, deadly night (1984).
For the grindhouse and drive-in, the amateur boxer previously retitled Lucio Fulci’s supernatural horror film Beyond (1981) as well The seven gates of death (1985) and Umberto Lenzi’s Italian Shock Cannibal ferox (1981) as well Make them die slowly (1983), where the gory film was promoted as “the most violent film ever made!” Banned in 31 countries!
Aquarius handed out bags of barf to those who paid to see it Dr. Al-Jazzar, medical deviation (1983), which was a re-edited version of Marino Girolami’s book Zombie holocaust (1980). The film also went by titles including The last zombie island, Cannibal Queen And Zombie 3.
“In one of the greatest and most ridiculous motion pictures ever made,” Mike Campbell wrote in a review of the film. The scariest things Blog, “A cannibal outbreak in the New York hospital system is discovered by a sexy morgue assistant (Lori), who happens to be a sexy anthropologist, and who just happens to have grown up on Sexy Cannibal Island – where the cannibals/zombies come from!”
It wouldn’t be surprising to learn that Levine early on distributed the infamous sex tape deep throat (1972), starring Linda Lovelace. “The theater that was making an average of $10,000 to $15,000 a week, which they were happy with, was now making $60,000, $70,000 a week,” he said in the 2016 DVD film. Butchery and ballyhoo.
He also booked John Carpenter’s early showings in theaters Halloween (1976) and John Sayles Crocodile (1980).
Terence Levine was born in London on February 17, 1933. After his parents sold a chain of theaters they owned, they moved the family to Buffalo, New York, and started another.
Levine helped popularize martial arts films in the United States after the death of action star Bruce Lee in 1973 with titles such as Goodbye Bruce Lee (1975), Bruce Lee fights from the grave (1976) and The grip of fear, the touch of death (1980).
Levine appeared in the 2023 documentary Enter the clones of Bruce.
Levine has also achieved success with films about women in prison, including: Women in cell block 7 (1973), Barbed wire dolls (1976) and Concrete jungle (1982). He pointed out that “the sluts involved in the beating phenomenon are actually working.”
Survivors include his wife, Sarai; His daughter Rachel and her husband Gregory. His grandchildren, Charlotte and Clifford. and his sister, Molly, and her husband, John.
He said: “All the pictures that I reproduced for the first time had a certain symmetry, they were all bad on the left hand, and on the right hand they made some money.” “I’ve made 32 pictures in 30 years, all exploitative, which isn’t too bad.”
