Larry Buchanan - Later Life, Death, and Legacy

Later Life, Death, and Legacy

Buchanan's autobiography is entitled It Came from Hunger: Tales of a Cinema Schlockmeister.

After he died in 2004 in Tucson, Arizona, a long obituary in the New York Times summarized his work thus: "One quality united Mr. Buchanan's diverse output: It was not so much that his films were bad; they were deeply, dazzlingly, unrepentantly bad. His work called to mind a famous line from H. L. Mencken, who, describing President Warren G. Harding's prose, said, 'It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.'"

He left behind an entire career of poorly made films, many of which have become cult films for being "so-bad-they're-good".