Brian Trenchard-Smith

Brian Trenchard-Smith

1946-06-01 England 58 Credits

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 ...

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Game of Death: The Six Doors to Hell

2024

as Major Paul Anders

Acting

Upcoming movie by Timo Rose

Thanatomania

Thanatomania

2023

Acting

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

Tales of the Uncanny

2020

as Self

7.1
Acting

A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks

2019

as Self

6.8
Acting

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

Elimination Game

2014

Executive Producer

4.3
Producing

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

Drive Hard

2014

Director, Screenplay

4.3
Directing Writing

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

Absolute Deception

2013

Director

4.7
Directing

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

The Cabin

2011

Director

6.2
Directing

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!

Machete Maidens Unleashed!

2010

as Self

6.7
Acting

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

Arctic Blast

2010

Director

5.7
Directing

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

Malibu Shark Attack

2009

Producer

4.1
Producing

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

Porky's: Pimpin' Pee Wee

2009

Director

4.5
Directing

Three college buddies search for sex in the summer holidays and end up starting a successful whorehouse.

Not Quite Hollywood

Not Quite Hollywood

2008

as Self

6.9
Acting

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

Tyrannosaurus Azteca

2007

Director

4.9
Directing

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

Long Lost Son

2006

Director

5.8
Directing

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

In Her Line of Fire

2006

Director, Producer

4.0
Directing Producing

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

Tides of War

2005

Director, Producer

4.4
Directing Producing

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

DC 9/11: Time of Crisis

2003

Director

6.7
Directing

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

The Paradise Virus

2003

Director, Producer

4.7
Directing Producing

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

Sightings: Heartland Ghost

2002

Director

4.6
Directing

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

Seconds to Spare

2002

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

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

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

2001

Director

4.6
Directing

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

Britannic

2000

Director, Writer

6.8
Directing Writing

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

Happy Face Murders

1999

Director

4.8
Directing

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

Atomic Dog

1998

Director

3.2
Directing

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

Voyage of Terror

Voyage of Terror

1998

Director

3.8
Directing

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

4.7
Directing

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

Leprechaun 4: In Space

1997

Director

4.6
Directing

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

Escape Clause

1996

Director

4.6
Directing

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

Leprechaun 3

1995

Director

5.9
Directing

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

Sahara

1995

Director

6.3
Directing

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

Night of the Demons 2

1994

Director

6.2
Directing

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

Official Denial

1993

Director

5.2
Directing

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

Resistance

Resistance

1992

Thanks

5.0

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

Demonstone

Demonstone

1990

Executive Producer

4.1
Producing

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

The Siege of Firebase Gloria

1989

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Strike of the Panther

1989

Director

4.1
Directing

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

Day of the Panther

1988

Director, Additional Dialogue

3.8
Directing

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

Out of the Body

1988

Director

4.0
Directing

An invisible force is killing women in Sydney and stealing their eyes.

Dangerfreaks

Dangerfreaks

1987

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

Grant Page & friends demonstrate stunts all over the world.

Dead End Drive-In

Dead End Drive-In

1986

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Frog Dreaming

1986

Director

5.6
Directing

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

Jenny Kissed Me

1986

Director

1.0
Directing

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

BMX Bandits

1983

Director

5.5
Directing

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

Blood Tide

1982

Co-Producer

4.9
Producing

An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.

Turkey Shoot

Turkey Shoot

1982

Director

5.4
Directing

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

Directing

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

Day of the Assassin

1979

Director

4.5
Directing

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

Stunt Rock

1978

Director, Screenplay

5.3
Directing Writing

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

7.0
Directing

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

Deathcheaters

1976

as Hit & Run Director

5.8
Acting

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

Deathcheaters

1976

Director, Story, Producer

5.8
Directing Writing Producing

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

The Man from Hong Kong

1975

as Martial Arts Heavy

6.7
Acting

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

The Man from Hong Kong

1975

Director, Screenplay

6.7
Directing Writing

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

The Love Epidemic

1975

Director, Writer

3.0
Directing Writing

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

Kung Fu Killers

1974

Director, Producer, Writer

7.0
Directing Producing Writing

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

The Stuntmen

1973

Writer, Producer, Director

7.0
Writing Producing Directing

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

Directing