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Bordello Death Tales Revisited
This week has been largely taken up with delivering final materials for the Bordello Death Tales DVD. The release date should be forthcoming very soon indeed, and you’ll know as soon as I do. Well, that’s not strictly true, I suppose. You’ll know as soon as I do unless the distributors say to me ‘and…
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Cannibal Holocaust with only 15 seconds of BBFC cuts..
According to this post over on Cult Labs forum, the BBFC have just rated the long version of Cannibal Holocaust with only 15 seconds of cuts. For anyone who has followed the film’s remarkable censorship history, this is an amazing situation. Cannibal Holocaust is a brutal, unpleasant and difficult film to watch, and it crosses…
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Fake Blood on the Lens: TrashHouse Aftermath
I found this footage sitting in a drawer yesterday. It was filmed the week we wrapped TrashHouse back in 2004, just before we tore the sets down.
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Elisabeth Sladen
I try not to let the deaths of people I’ve never met affect me too much. Life’s big and loud and emotional enough when you’re just dealing with the people who are physically there in your life, those wonderful people that you can hug and touch and punch. If you start letting yourself get overly…
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"Sale" at the video shop..
About a billion years ago, (1995), I worked in a video shop. It was part of a chain. I won’t mention which chain, obviously, but it’s probably the first one you thought of. Yes, that one. Yes, I suppose it does rhyme with ‘cockthruster’, now that you mention it, but I’d rather not think about…
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No pillow as soft as a clear conscience
I sometimes use the phrase ‘My name is Pat Higgins and my conscience is clear’ as a sign-off when I do live events (like the one coming up on Wednesday 27th April at Southend Film Festival) and have done for years. In fact, I gave the expression to a comedian in Hellbride as a catchphrase…
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Scre4m (Or Scream 4 if you’re not in marketing, or 12 years old)
The Scream franchise means quite a lot to me. When the original hit the screens in the UK in May 1997, my life was changing in all sorts of ways. I initially saw Scream at the cinema with my friends, some of whom weren’t used to horror films and found it pretty gruelling. By the…
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New Workshop Date
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be running another workshop at the Southend Film Festival this year. On Wednesday 27th April at 6.30pm, I’ll be chatting about micro-budget filmmaking at an event called “DIY: Making a Feature Film to Launch Your Career”. Places are really limited, but can be reserved on 0845 5212345 or by…
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Bringing it all together.
Keeping everything together in the sprawling age of Facebook, YouTube et al has proven a bit of a headache for me. Working out what leads where, and following how the hell people ever find out about us are challenges that face any small business. With this in mind, we’ve just whacked some fucking great big…
Pat Higgins and Jinx Media 