Rejuvenatrix

Rejuvenatrix aka The Rejuvenator is a 1988 horror film starring Vivian Lanko and John MacKay, and directed by Brian Thomas Jones. The film was partly inspired by the 1959 science fiction film The Wasp Woman, which had been produced and directed by Roger Corman. The original title was Rejuvenatrix, although it has become more popularly known as The Rejuvenator, this included the UK and Brazil.

The film originally came about through director Brian Thomas Jones and Steven Mackler, who would produce the film. Jones attended New York University Film School in 1976, until he decided to drop out during the summer of his junior and senior years, and soon worked for a TV commercial production company. Jones began freelancing after two years as a production assistant on indie and studio features. In order to help start his directing career, Jones returned to the university to make a narrative film. At the same time as finishing his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, Jones also made a fiftyeightminute film called Overexposed about photojournalists on assignment in El Salvador. This film became the semifinalist in the North Eastern US region of the 1984 Student Academy Awards. Although Jones lost, a few days after the awards, he received a call from someone named Steven Mackler. Mackler had been on the jury for the student awards and revealed he was impressed with the film especially as it had been done on no budget. Mackler made a deal with the Overexposed producer, Robert Altschuler, to take the film out to try to raise money to shoot another twenty minutes to sell it as a feature. This plan never came to fruition and instead both Jones and Mackler started looking for other projects to work on together. Jones received a call during the summer of 1987 from Mackler, who had made a recent deal with Sony Video Software SVS Films. The agreement involved the creation of three feature films, and each were due to get a theatrical release before being released within the home video market. This was at a time when Sony began manufacturing their own VHS players, after losing the VHSBetamax format war. The idea behind the deal was to make low budget genre movies, release them theatrically, and then sell them to video store owners as a straight to your store from the theater deal. The films would then crossmarket with the companys video players.Mackler handed Jones a script title

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