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Aug 5, 2021 · Published August 5, 2021. Earl Owensby was a pioneer in independent filmmaking, and he did so without the support of the Hollywood establishment. He built a film studio in rural North Carolina between Shelby and Boiling Springs (1973), he resurrected 3D films, he discovered the global film market before others even cared, he starred in his own ...
Sep 23, 2021 · A Day of Judgment was released straight-to-video in multiple countries, in hopes of establishing Earl Owensby Studios as a player in the lucrative zero-budget horror VHS market that was just exploding in the early ‘80s.
Earl Owensby Studios (shortened to E.O. Studios) is an American-based film and television film studio that was founded in 1974 by producer/actor Ernest Earl Owensby (born 1935).
Jul 2, 2021 · From Earl Owensby Studios – the South’s biggest producer/distributor of ‘70s/’80s regional horror and exploitation hits – comes what may be the most obscure and bizarre slasher movie of the entire godless genre: In a 1930s small town rife with lust, corruption and sin, a mysterious figure wielding a scythe arrives to cut an unholy ...
Owensby is a legend in the Carolinas, has been interviewed on 60 Minutes, and profiled in periodicals like The New York Times, Esquire, and GQ (which dubbed him the “Dixie DeMille”). His movies may not be widely-known beyond the South, but they certainly turned tidy profits for Owensby’s EO Studios.
Nov 9, 2020 · Shot at the old Earl Owensby studios in Shelby, the movie was meant to be director Al Adamson’s break away from grindhouse fare and into family films. It starred soap opera actor Don Stewart in the leading role, and its novelty brought with it a small crowd of extras from around Cleveland County, including Vicki Martin.
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Jun 9, 2021 · by Shaun Assael June 9, 2021. Earl Owensby grew up watching films like The Quiet Man and Gone With the Wind while he swept the floors of a tiny movie house in Cliffside, North Carolina. Even then, Earl was more interesting than the characters he saw on the screen.
