Simon Nuchtern
# Simon Nuchtern

Simon Nuchtern (born 1936) is a Belgian-born American filmmaker who is based in New York. He has directed, written, and produced a number of low-budget and independent films since the 1960s.

His films include Cowards (1970), a drama which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival; the 3D horror film Silent Madness (1984); and the action film Savage Dawn (1985), starring Lance Henriksen, George Kennedy, and Karen Black.

Nuchtern was president of August Films (established 1967), a production and post-production company. During the 1970s he was involved in the re-editing of several foreign-shot films prior to their distribution in the United States, notably the controversial Snuff (1976), which was marketed to exploit rumors of the existence of real-life snuff films. Following the dissolution of August Films in 1989, he founded a smaller-scale film and video production company, Katina Productions.

He is married to artist Anna Thornhill.

## Selected filmography

| Year | Title | Director | Producer | Writer | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1968 | The Girl Grabbers | Y | Y | Y | |
| 1969 | To Hex with Sex | Y | Y | Y | |
| 1970 | Cowards | Y | Y | Y | Reissued as Love-In '72 with new footage. |
| 1972 | The Broad Coalition | Y | Y | | Alternative titles: What Do I Tell the Boys at the Station?  and That Man Is Pregnant! |
| 1976 | The Bodyguard | Y | | | Recut U.S. edition of Japanese film Karate Kiba (1973); directed new prologue. |
| 1976 | Snuff | Y | | | Filmed in Argentina by Michael and Roberta Findlay as The Slaughter (1971); directed new epilogue for reissue (uncredited). |
| 1981 | Strong Medicine | | Y | | Directed by Richard Foreman. |
| 1984 | New York Nights | Y | | | Loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler's La Ronde. |
| 1984 | Silent Madness | Y | Y | | Filmed in 3D. |
| 1985 | Savage Dawn | Y | | | |
| 1988 | Rejuvenatrix | | | Y | Directed by Brian Thomas Jones. |
