Johnson Studios

Johnson Studios is an American production company located in Brooklyn, New York. It was founded by George Johnson in 1973. The production company was made unexpected smash hit film like Left 4 Dead (1987).

History
After George Johnson left Laugh-Off in 1973, He decided to start his own production company called "Johnson Studios".

His company's first movie was titled Fando's Fantasies, which was English dub version of "Fernando Arrabal's Viva la Muerte".

Not only Johnson made a lot of movies, He also made a adult comic book series called Balloon Man (1974-1988), which was inspired by his favorite cartoons like, Superman, Balloon Land, Fritz the Cat (which he watched that before), and Down and Dirty Duck.

In 1978, After he watched The Groove Tube, Tunnel Vision, and Kentucky Fried Movie, He decided to make movie based on those, called "The Rude Scope". It was commercial failure.

In 1982, one day after filming Episode 45 of Minky Momo, Minky had a idea for the movie about boring house turned into wild house party. George agreed to making the film. The film called "The Wild House Party (1983)".

In the same year, They made Monster House. It became hit when this was released.

In 1987, They made Left 4 Dead. Which was also became huge hit when this released in drive-in theaters and regular movie theaters.

In 1989 Johnson Studios was closed and abandoned for few days until all the stuff was moved to new company in Los Angeles named George Johnson Entertainment.