John Boorman begins his career as a film critic for magazines and the radio. In 1955 he joins the BBC, where he works as a film editor and also shoot some documentaries. His debut as a director is in 1965 with the feature Having a Wild Weekend, which is not very successful. Then Boorman moves to Hollywood where he shoots his first important film Point Blank (1967) immediately followed by Hell in the Pacific (1968), both starring his friend Lee Marvin. The Seventies will definitely mark the style that makes him famous: the violence of the obscure in Deliverance (1972), the science fiction cult-movie Zardoz (1973), the horror of Exorcist II: The Eretic.
