Unworldly Views

BLOOD AND FLESH: THE REEL LIFE AND GHASTLY DEATH OF AL ADAMSON The Cineworld discovery screen offered up David Gregory’s documentary about Al Adamson, the 60’s /70’s exploitation director responsible for such films as 1965’s Psycho-A-Go-Go and 1971’s Blood of Ghastly Horror – in ...Read More

Set in my ways as I am I prefer to buy my Frightfest tickets in person, at whatever passes for a ‘box office’ nowadays. Over the years this has become more and more difficult and now entails leaving it to the very last moment. ...Read More

Vernon Sewell’s career in British film started, weirdly enough, with a German film – Morgenrot (1933) a collaboration with Gustav Klimt’s illegitimate son (one of them) that premiered in front of Adolf Hitler. Apparently Hitler liked it. His next collaborative directorial credit came 10 ...Read More

THE NIGHTCOMERS In Nick Pinkerton’s positive Sight and Sound review of Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (which I thought was shit by the way) I first encountered the phrase ‘gentrified horror’, a pejorative term for the kind of upmarket horror that plays to cinephiles ...Read More

LOVE EXPRESS: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF WALERIAN BOROWCZYK Kuba Mikurda’s documentary presents a pretty standard view of Borowczyk, which won’t be a problem for people who have no idea who Borowczyk is I suppose, and they are the vast majority of the population, and perhaps ...Read More

‘It won’t be easy’, warned writer-director Jagoda Szelc before her second film began, which was possibly an example of what she later referred to as her as her ‘dry humour’ – does anyone go to the Polish Film Festival expecting uncomplicated fun and games? ...Read More

THE DEVIL OUTSIDE In writer-director Andrew Hulme’s second film (after gangster drama Snow In Paradise, which I haven’t seen but will be sure to catch up with – no doubt on London Live – one day) our adolescent hero Robert (Noah Carson) finds the ...Read More