Louis Morneau

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Louis Morneau
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  • Film director
  • screenwriter
Years active1991–2012

Louis Morneau is an American film director and scenarist.

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Life

Morneau has been described as a "graduate of the Roger Corman school". [1]

He is the director of various B/cult films, [2] [3] [4] including what Dread Central calls ’the notoriously terrible’ [5] Bats , in 1999, a film, however, praised by Mark F. Berry in his book about dinosaur films, in which this author considers that Bats is a ’handsome and misunderstood fifties-monster homage’’, explaining Morneau's personal style by his former career as film editor. [6] The B movie French site Nanarland  [ fr ] sees in him a "yes man", who "is not inherently bad, but (who) will quickly specialize in broke direct-to-video ( Bats , Hitcher II).". [7] Morneau is also known for being "the man behind horror sequels Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead , The Hitcher: I've Been Waiting, Carnosaur 2 ". [8]

After Carnosaur 2 in 1995, [9] he directed Retroactive , and Made Men the year after, both starring Jim Belushi, the latter also starring Timothy Dalton. [10]

Personal life

Morneau was the long-time partner of the actress Catherine Cyran. [11]

Filmography

YearTitleFunctioned asNotes
DirectorWriterProducer
1991To Die Standing [12] YesNoNoaka Crackdown
Starring Cliff DeYoung and Robert Beltran
1992 Final Judgement [12] YesNoNoStarring Brad Dourif, Karen Black and Isaac Hayes
Quake [12] YesNoYesStarring Steve Railsback and Erika Anderson
1995 Soldier Boyz [13] YesNoNoStarring Michael Dudikoff and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa
Carnosaur 2 [14] YesNoNoStarring John Savage and Cliff DeYoung
Sequel to Carnosaur
Hellfire NoStoryNoDirected by David Tausik
Starring Ben Cross and Beverly Garland
1997 Retroactive YesNoNoStarring Jim Belushi and Kylie Travis
1998 Made Men YesNoNoProduced by Richard Donner and Joel Silver
Starring Jim Belushi, Timothy Dalton and Steve Railsback
1999 Bats YesNoNoStarring Lou Diamond Phillips and Dina Meyer
2003 The Hitcher II: I've Been Waiting YesNoNoStarring C. Thomas Howell, Kari Wuhrer and Jake Busey
Sequel to The Hitcher
2004Bet Your Life [15] YesYesNoStarring Billy Zane
2004 Slipstream [16] NoYesNoStarring Sean Astin, Vinnie Jones and Ivana Miličević
2008 Joy Ride 2: Dead Ahead [5] YesNoNoStarring Nicki Aycox, Nick Zano and Kyle Schmid
Sequel to Joy Ride
2012 Werewolf: The Beast Among Us [12] [17] YesYesNoStarring Ed Quinn, Stephen Rea and Steven Bauer
Unofficial sequel to The Wolfman

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  1. ↑ Fischer, Russ (2011-07-07). "Louis Morneau, A Graduate Of The Roger Corman School, Directing Universal's 'Werewolf'?". /Film. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
  2. ↑ Senn, Bryan (2017-02-06). The Werewolf Filmography: 300+ Movies. McFarland. ISBN   978-1-4766-2691-8.
  3. ↑ "Werewolf, la nuit du loup-garou (Werewolf, the Beast Among Us) - Edition Blu-ray (France) de Louis Morneau". www.sfmag.net. Retrieved 2023-11-25.
  4. ↑ Rick (2022-05-20). "[Film] Carnosaur 2, de Louis Morneau (1995)". Dark Side Reviews (in French). Retrieved 2023-11-25.
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