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Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker

Released 1981
Distributor International Film Marketing
Directed by William Asher (Bewitched, Muscle Beach Party), Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker lifts key elements of Oedipus and Psycho and runs them through a grindhouse blender—the result is both sleazy and cathartic. Susan Tyrrell plays an over-the-hill sex bomb way too interested in her nephew, played by the baby-faced Jimmy McNichol. The supporting cast (including a jaw-dropping performance from Bo Svenson) ensured its cult status.
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About Dr. Z

There are entertainers who only need one name: Sammy, Frank, Cher. To that list you can add Dr. Solomon Francis Zed. Dr. Z has been entertaining audiences for decades with a patented combination of showmanship and pizzaz that Lew Wasserman once described as, “a tall glass of yes with a wow chaser.” After gaining fame with his wildly successful nightclub act, Dr. Z established his acting bona fides on Broadway with a one-man show based on Twelve Angry Men and followed it up with a Tony winning version of The Shining called Overlookin’. On film, he played Abe Lincoln in an extended flashback sequence in The Towering Inferno that ended up on the cutting room floor, but picked up an Oscar the following year playing an arachnophobic priest who faces his fears in the disaster blockbuster Tarantulanche! Never tiring, Dr. Z still bounds out of bed every afternoon to fill any empty spotlight he can find.

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Clever Name

Just like Hitchcock, Asher had cameos in his ‘Bikini Beach’ and ‘Fireball 500’.

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Jenny Agutter fan

William Asher was married to Elizabeth Montgomery for several years. She got pregnant before the second season of Bewitched went into production, so they incorporated her pregnancy into the show.

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