Biography
Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Anglo Australian film and television director, producer, and writer, with a reputation for large scale movies on small scale budgets, many of which display a quirky sense of humor that has earned him a cult following. Quentin Tarantino referred to him in Entertainment Weekly as one of his favorite directors. His early work is featured in Not Quite Hollywood, an award winning documentary released by Magnolia. Among his early successes were the 20th Century Fox release ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell
2024
as Major Paul Anders
Upcoming movie by Timo Rose

Thanatomania
2023
The film's 'hero' likes scary movies, has obsessive fantasies about death and murder, and has a slightly disturbing fascination with serial killers.

Tales of the Uncanny
2020
as Self
A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
2019
as Self
The fantastic story of how an ancient martial art, Chinese kung fu, conquered the world through the hundreds of films that were produced in Hong Kong ...

Elimination Game
2014
Executive Producer
In the wake of a shocking civilian massacre in a foreign war zone, disgraced Navy SEAL Rick Tyler is sentenced to rot in a maximum security military p...

Drive Hard
2014
Director, Screenplay
A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops an...

Absolute Deception
2013
Director
A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers....

The Cabin
2011
Director
A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally book...

Machete Maidens Unleashed!
2010
as Self
In the final decades of the 20th century, the Philippines was a country where low-budget exploitation-film producers were free to make nearly any kind...

Arctic Blast
2010
Director
When a solar eclipse sends a colossal blast of super chilled air towards the earth, it then sets off a catastrophic chain of events that threatens to ...

Malibu Shark Attack
2009
Producer
An underwater earthquake generates a tsunami that strikes Malibu, bringing a hunting pack of prehistoric-looking goblin sharks to the surface. Althoug...

Porky's: Pimpin' Pee Wee
2009
Director
Three college buddies search for sex in the summer holidays and end up starting a successful whorehouse.

Not Quite Hollywood
2008
as Self
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock...

Tyrannosaurus Azteca
2007
Director
The Aztecs summoned a Tyrannosaurus Rex to keep Cortes and his army out of Mexico. Now they need the Conquistadors' help to stop the T-Rex from killin...

Long Lost Son
2006
Director
Fourteen years after her son and estranged husband were presumed lost at sea, Kristen believes she glimpses them in the background of a friend's recen...

In Her Line of Fire
2006
Director, Producer
When the Vice President's plane goes down near a remote Pacific island, he is kidnapped by rebel forces and held for ransom. It is up to his female Se...

Tides of War
2005
Director, Producer
In the cold, dark waters off North Korea a U.S. Navy fast attack submarine meets with a mysterious disaster - it's attacked and nearly sunk by an omin...

DC 9/11: Time of Crisis
2003
Director
This is the story of the days directly after 9/11, and the president's whereabouts. Scheduled to air shortly before the second anniversary of the Sept...

The Paradise Virus
2003
Director, Producer
Arrived to the tropical island of Barsarato to spend a short vacation with her eighteen years old son, Dr. Linda Fleming (Melody Thomas Scott), teache...

Sightings: Heartland Ghost
2002
Director
The crew of a reality-TV show about the paranormal visits a small Kansas town to investigate a house that may be haunted.

Seconds to Spare
2002
Director, Writer
When a deadly assassin hijacks a passenger train, he threatens to detonate a deadly can of poison that can wipe out an entire city, if he isn't given ...

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2
2001
Director
Stone (the Antichrist) becomes President of the European Union and uses his seat of power to dissolve the United Nations and create a one world govern...

Britannic
2000
Director, Writer
It was the sister ship of the infamous Titanic... and its final destiny was the same. Experience the true untold story of Britannic, a tumultuous, epi...

Happy Face Murders
1999
Director
An eccentric older woman implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she ...

Atomic Dog
1998
Director
When a pooch is irradiated by a nuclear plant and threatens the town, only a teenage boy can redeem him.

Voyage of Terror
1998
Director
An infectious disease researcher is on a cruise with her daughter when an ebola-type virus attacks the ship's passengers and crew.
Doomsday Rock
1997
Director
Dr. Paul Sorenson, a noted astronomer, believes that an approaching comet will collide with earth based on his study of an ancient civilization's prop...

Leprechaun 4: In Space
1997
Director
On a planet in a distant galaxy, a power hungry Leprechaun, holds a beautiful alien princess hostage in order to marry her for her royal title. With h...

Escape Clause
1996
Director
A man finds out that his wife has paid $10,000 to have him killed. Then both the would-be killer and the wife turn up dead ...

Leprechaun 3
1995
Director
It was a normal night in Las Vegas, Nevada, all the lights were flashing brightly, until a man with one hand, one eye, and one leg walks into a pawn s...

Sahara
1995
Director
After the fall of Tobruk in June 1942, U.S. Army sergeant Joe Gunn leads his tank into the Sahara desert, in order to evade advancing Rommel's forces ...

Night of the Demons 2
1994
Director
Angela, the hostess from hell, summons her army of teen demons when teenagers from St. Rita's High School decide to party at the haunted Hull House on...

Official Denial
1993
Director
A UFO abductee joins a secret government agency in order to communicate with the sole surviving alien of a downed spacecraft.

Resistance
1992
Thanks
Over the five days after a military coup, army troops arrive to enforce martial law and encounter a growing resistance movement.

Demonstone
1990
Executive Producer
Two U.S. Marine investigators looking into a series of grisly murders in Manila discover that the crimes are tied to an amulet with a 400-year-old cur...

The Siege of Firebase Gloria
1989
Director
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to h...

Strike of the Panther
1989
Director
Jason Blade is a man who can't bring himself to commit fully to his woman, and who spends all his time with a special crime task force taking on assig...

Day of the Panther
1988
Director, Additional Dialogue
A martial-arts expert goes after a criminal gang and its boss, who were responsible for the death of his partner.

Out of the Body
1988
Director
An invisible force is killing women in Sydney and stealing their eyes.

Dangerfreaks
1987
Director, Writer
Grant Page & friends demonstrate stunts all over the world.

Dead End Drive-In
1986
Director
In the future, a health nut and his tag-along girlfriend become trapped in a drive-in theater that has become a concentration camp for outcast youths.

Frog Dreaming
1986
Director
American boy Cody lives in Australia with his guardian, Gaza. Cody is very imaginative, inventive and inquisitive. He comes accross some strange event...

Jenny Kissed Me
1986
Director
A woman moves away from her boyfriend because she suspects his feelings towards her pre-teen daughter. He tries to find them in the sordid side of Mel...

BMX Bandits
1983
Director
Teens P.J. and Goose get their thrills on BMX bikes, performing hair-raising tricks all across Sydney, Australia. Along with their new friend Judy, th...

Blood Tide
1982
Co-Producer
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.

Turkey Shoot
1982
Director
In the near future, after an unspecified holocaust, survivors are herded into prison camps. There, they are hunted for sport by the leaders of the cam...
That Dangerous Summer
1980
Director
A look at the work of volunteer firemen fighting bushfires in the Blue Mountains at the height of the fire season in 1980.

Day of the Assassin
1979
Director
Treasure hunters from around the world race to Mexico after a Middle Eastern luxury yacht explodes, sending a Shah's fortune and mysterious document t...

Stunt Rock
1978
Director, Screenplay
Australian stuntman Grant Page goes to Los Angeles to work on a television series. He uses his spare time to lend his expertise to rock band Sorcery. ...
Hospitals Don't Burn Down
1978
Director
A fire breaks out in a multi-story hospital in the middle of the night and a male nurse and a nursing sister save many lives during a fire in a major ...

Deathcheaters
1976
as Hit & Run Director
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.

Deathcheaters
1976
Director, Story, Producer
Two best friends, Vietnam War veterans-turned-stuntmen, are sent as spies to the Philippines on a top secret mission for the Australian government.

The Man from Hong Kong
1975
as Martial Arts Heavy
Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to...

The Man from Hong Kong
1975
Director, Screenplay
Australian authorities arrest a man believed to be connected to the Sydney criminal underworld and send for Inspector Fang Sing Leng from Hong Kong to...

The Love Epidemic
1975
Director, Writer
This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously ...

Kung Fu Killers
1974
Director, Producer, Writer
Australian stuntman Grant Page travels to Hong Kong to find Bruce Lee's successor and looks at the cultural phenomenon that Asian martial arts has bec...

The Stuntmen
1973
Writer, Producer, Director
The Stuntmen is a one-hour documentary for Australian TV written and directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. It was through this movie that Trenchard-Smit...
The World of Kung Fu
1973
Director