Juan Piquer (who calls himself Simon to attract foreign i.e. English-speaking investors) resides in Madrid, Spain, where he has produced and directed exploitation pictures for two decades running. He owns his own studio and creates and/or designs many of the impressive special effects sequences you see in any of his many imaginative undertakings. He grew up loving American cinema as a child in Franco's Spain, and even worked with some famous American filmmakers when they shot in Spain in the ...[Read Story]