Recent Bear Manor book, by Dr. Steve Haberman. 308 pages.
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WHO WERE GORDON HESSLER AND CHRISTOPHER WICKING?
Between 1969 and 1971 director Gordon Hessler and writer Christopher Wicking collaborated on four unique and challenging horror movies for independent production company American International Pictures: The Oblong Box, Scream and Scream Again, Cry of the Banshee and Murders in the Rue Morgue. These four works from Hessler and Wicking have been undervalued and little explored by most film critics and historians. Yet, they represent artistic extensions of, and in some cases reactions against, the traditions of gothic cinema that had become prevalent in the previous decade. They also work as metaphors about the turbulent times in which they were made. Their neglect seems even more puzzling since the first three starring Vincent Price received wider distribution and grossed more at the box-office than almost any other low-budget genre efforts of their time. Most critics and historians consider them only in comparison to the works by directors Roger Corman and Michael Reeves that have genre similarities instead of appreciating the quite different approaches to this material introduced by Hessler and Wicking.
In stock at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Gothic-Radicals- ... B0DD7H1BGZ
WHO WERE GORDON HESSLER AND CHRISTOPHER WICKING?
Between 1969 and 1971 director Gordon Hessler and writer Christopher Wicking collaborated on four unique and challenging horror movies for independent production company American International Pictures: The Oblong Box, Scream and Scream Again, Cry of the Banshee and Murders in the Rue Morgue. These four works from Hessler and Wicking have been undervalued and little explored by most film critics and historians. Yet, they represent artistic extensions of, and in some cases reactions against, the traditions of gothic cinema that had become prevalent in the previous decade. They also work as metaphors about the turbulent times in which they were made. Their neglect seems even more puzzling since the first three starring Vincent Price received wider distribution and grossed more at the box-office than almost any other low-budget genre efforts of their time. Most critics and historians consider them only in comparison to the works by directors Roger Corman and Michael Reeves that have genre similarities instead of appreciating the quite different approaches to this material introduced by Hessler and Wicking.
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