Eric Louzil
# Eric Louzil

Eric Louzil (born September 1, 1952) is an American low-budget film director and producer.

## Career

Louzil began his career as a UCLA film student, when he served as associate producer of the short film Sonic Boom starring Ricky Nelson, George Kennedy, Sal Mineo and Keith Moon in 1975. He soon made a career for himself as a low-budget producer and later director, most notably for infamous independent film company Troma. His early productions Sizzle Beach, U.S.A. (aka Malibu Hot Summer) and Shadows Run Black are notable as the first two films to feature film star Kevin Costner. Louzil also directed the 1987 film, Lust for Freedom.

His other credits include the action film Fortress of Amerikkka (1989), Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991) and Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid (1994), both a part of the Class of Nuke 'Em High film series. He was noted for having been among the independent filmmakers who gravitated to Yuma, Arizona, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

## Footnotes

* ↑ U.S. Public Records Index Vol 1 (Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.), 2010.
* ↑ Andrew Neill, Matthew Kent, Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere: The Complete Chronicle of the WHO 1958-1978 (2009), p. 262: "In August 1975, Keith agreed to appear in Sonic Boom, a comedy short made by UCLA film student Eric Louzil, about a supersonic jet that lands in a small town and creates hysteria about an impending sonic boom that never happens".
* ↑ The Hollywood Reporter, Volume 317, Issues 1-18, p. 48: "You will be interested to know that Troma's "Nuke 'Em" producer, Eric Louzil, produced two of (actor) Kevin Costner's first films, Sizzle Beach, U.S.A. and Shadows Run Black".
* ↑ Todd Keith, Kevin Costner: the Unauthorized Biography (1994), p. 49.
* ↑ Ford, Luke (July 1, 2004). "Eric Louzil". The Producers: Profiles in Frustration. iUniverse. pp. 206–207. ISBN 0595320163. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
* ↑ Lloyd Kaufman, James Gunn, All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger (1998), p. 255.
* ↑ Lili DeBarbieri, Location Filming in Arizona: The Screen Legacy of the Grand Canyon State (2014), p. 79: "Yuma's golden era of filmmaking is the late 1980s to the early 1990s, according to Yvonne Taylor, longtime director of the Yuma Film Office. Independent filmmaking increased during this time, bringing filmmakers such as Eric Louzil to town".
