Albert Pyun (born May 19, 1953) is an American
film director best known for having made many
low-budget B-movies and
direct-to-video action films. The
Independent Film Channel said that Pyun "has carved out a unique niche as a director of low-budget, high-concept genre films starring actors past their prime", adding that "others believe this a charitable description for Pyun, who has also been derided as the new
Ed Wood." Though he frequently blends
kickboxing and
hybrid martial arts with
science fiction and
dystopic or
post-apocalyptic themes, which often include
cyborgs. Pyun stated in an interview that "I have really no interest in cyborgs. And I've never really had any interest in post-apocalyptic stories or settings. It just seemed that those situations presented a way for me to make movies with very little money, and to explore ideas that I really wanted to explore — even if they were [controversial]."