Brian Yuzna

Brian Yuzna is a name horror fans say with real affection, and I get why. He cut his teeth producing for Stuart Gordon on Re-Animator and From Beyond, two films that defined a gloriously gooey strain of 1980s genre cinema, before stepping behind the camera himself with Society in 1989, a satirical body-horror gut-punch that still gets quoted. What I respect is that he treated horror as a place for ideas, not just gore, even when the gore was the selling point. Born in Manila, he became a steady force in the science-fiction and horror world rather than chasing mainstream respectability, and that consistency is its own kind of achievement.

Name (English)

Brian Yuzna

Name (Japanese)

ブライアン・ユズナ

Reading

ぶらいあん・ゆずな

Born

August 30, 1949 (age 76)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Ox

Origin

Manila, Philippines

Occupation

film director / film producer / screenwriter / actor

Awards & achievements

• 2003 Time Machine Award

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/brianyuzna/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%96%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A6%E3%82%BA%E3%83%8A

Tags

• film director
• film producer
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.