Horror (1981) and Goodnight, Sweet Marilyn (1989). Among Buchanan's work, several direct-to-television films which he wrote, produced, and directed back in Dallas under his own "Azalea Films" imprint in the mid-to-late-1960s for American International Pictures, still generate a good degree of fan attention today. The titles − The Eye Creatures (1967), Zontar, the Thing from Venus (1967), Creature of Destruction (1967), Mars Needs Women (1968), Curse of the Swamp Creature (1968), In the Year 2889 (1969), Hell Raiders (1969), and It's Alive! (1969) − were largely color remakes of AIP films from the 1950s. Buchanan's instructions from AIP were: "We want cheap color pictures, we want half-assed names in them, we want them eighty minutes long and we want them now". In 1964 Buchanan created The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, which presented an alternate history in which Lee Harvey Oswald was not killed by Jack Ruby and stood trial for the assassination of John F. Kennedy. In 1984 he produced Down on Us, which charged that the U.S. government was responsible for the deaths of Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin. Among the notable features of Buchanan's movies were: Monsters with eyes literally made from ping-pong balls day-for-night footage "with a blue gel slapped across the camera lens with the noonday sun clearly visible on surfaces of water, car bumpers, etc." Extremely low production values One reasonably well-known (if over-the-hill) lead actor (such as John Ashley or John Agar). Later life, death, and legacy Buchanan died in Tucson, Arizona on December 2, 2004 at age 81. He died of complications from a collapsed lung, according to his wife, Joan Buchanan (they were married for 52 years). Buchanan left behind his wife, one daughter and three sons. After his death, 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". Buchanan chronicled his unusual life in his 1997 autobiography, It Came from Hunger: Tales of a Cinema Schlockmeister. This only authoritative record