Just received a preview of the nine-page tribute to the late, legendary artist Bernie Wrightson which is due to appear in next month’s edition of The Dark Side.
Shooting from the Hip Flask [2]
As mentioned previously, I’m planning to resurrect Ghostwords TV as a regular broadcast via Vamporama Films‘ YouTube channel. In addition to my punditry, I intend to have occasional guests from the world of film, music and literature, and only this evening I arranged to film the first of those interviews next week at a recording studio in Stourbridge. Watch this space, as they say.
Shooting from the Hip Flask
Back in February 2016, I hosted the first episode in what was originally planned as a series of Ghostwords TV vidcasts distributed via the Vamporama Films YouTube channel. Technical problems scuppered the second instalment, but plans are afoot to resurrect the project later this month. More news soon.
As I Was Saying…
Rather shockingly, it’s been three months since my last confession my most recent posting here, during which time Monsters premiered at Leicester’s third Grindhouse Planet Film Festival and The Forbidden Lady appeared as an extra on Arrow Video’s release of Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion. Chrissie and I went down to London just before Xmas to meet up with my old friend Norman J Warren (photo below), who’s busy supervising the 2K remastering of his back catalogue, but other than that, neither of us have exactly been caught up in the social whirl. If social media has indeed replaced old-fashioned face-to-face interaction, it’s a rather dull and uninspiring substitute for the energetic pub gatherings and rambling early-hours conversations I used to enjoy so much back in the final quarter of the Twentieth Century.
Forbidden No Longer [2]
Arrow Video will be releasing the new Blu-ray edition of The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion on 14 January 2019. As previously mentioned, the extras include The Forbidden Lady, featuring footage from my 2016 conversation with the movie’s star, Dagmar Lassander.
Voices in the Dark
Surprises are part of the Halloween tradition, but I was still caught off guard on Wednesday evening when the BBC telephoned to invite me about the late night show which is broadcast on BBC Radio WM and seven of its sister channels. Apparently, host Graham Torrington likes to chat with “remarkable people”, and his producer Nicole Pullman bizarrely considered I qualified for that nomenclature.
You can listen to our conversation here (I enter the fray just past the 01:26:30 mark). Appropriately for All Hallow’s Eve, we discussed horror movies, the Birmingham Horror Group and my work at Vamporama Films.
Here Be Monsters [2]
The new trailer from Vamporama Films for Monsters. Written and directed by Chrissie Harper from an idea courtesy of yours truly, featuring Liam Woon as ‘The Man’. We’re hoping to premiere it in late November.
Forbidden No Longer
For the past few months, I’ve had to keep it zipped about a project Chrissie Harper and I had in the can but couldn’t discuss until the distributor which commissioned it made a public announcement. At 3pm on Friday afternoon, Arrow Video officially confirmed it will be releasing The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion on Blu-ray in January, with our documentary The Forbidden Lady among the extras. Full details here.
Here Be Monsters
I was over in Coventry yesterday, cooling my heels (and a lot else besides) in a massive grocery warehouse alongside my Vamporama Films colleague Chrissie Harper and actor Liam Woon. We were there for principal photography on our new horror short Monsters (the photographs above show Liam during the final rehearsal and a sample clip with preliminary grading). More news soon.
An Old Career in a New Town
Well, not exactly, but I am currently hunting for a new address (amazingly, only the third I’ll have had for any significant period) whilst I empty this manse of thirty-plus years of accumulated detritus before putting it on the market. It may be a vain hope, but maybe the move will also provide some perspective and a little more direction along my career path, which more frequently resembles a disputed right of way across an abandoned firing range.
More news to follow, I guess. Meanwhile, I should be making a more upbeat announcement very shortly about a documentary project I’ve just completed with Chrissie Harper, my partner in Vamporama Films. Stay tuned.