"[1] In the following decades, in addition to directing films that became cult classics (like The Incredible Melting Man, Galaxina, Van Nuys Blvd.
[1] His most recent feature-film work as a writer/director, Spooky House (2002), starring Ben Kingsley, received numerous awards.
He has also been a guest lecturer at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television,[2] Cal State Northridge and the California Institute of the Arts.
[4] William Sachs himself mentions that his style is primarily influenced by surrealists like Federico Fellini, Luis Buñuel and others.
The Incredible Melting Man, for example, was meant as a surrealistic comedy by Sachs, but many intentionally absurdist elements were removed by the producers from the final film to give it a more "serious" tone.
Still, scenes like the ending (in which a janitor shovels the molten remains of the titular character into a bucket) give a hint of the surrealist tone that Sachs wanted for the film.
[6] In Van Nuys Blvd., a number of comedic scenes of a police officer on a beach, being handcuffed to his car, show a gradually more and more surrealist tone as the film progresses.