GORDON THE MOVIE : PART TWO

Where Daydreams are Nightmares, And Death is a Way of Life. Super 8. 54 minutes total. Part Two of eight-ish...shooting began 1979, premiered 1982...made up of fragments of planned film as star Gordon and 2 other cast died during shooting....star replaced by life sized dummy...Gordon plays purveyor of bits of famous dead people....his actual funeral is finale of film, at which his dummy and most recent victim also appear. See my blogsite http://biginbrasil.blogspot.com/2008/02/blog-post.html for first installment of the story of making Gordon the Movie, plus magazine articles etc. Made on Super 8 using facilities of Workshop Films, Bath, UK by Paul Nachman ( Nasher). Press Quotes: "You've heard of low budget, well this is no-budget..." "Makes Herzog's Fitzcarraldo look like a day trip to Margate..." "A surreal epic of bad taste and nightmarish morality..." "Parochial surrealism on a grand scale..." "What a load of morbid shit..."

Author: nasher53
Keywords: death horror super body parts cult disturbing 70's 80's lost classic offal gore blood murder funeral terror hacking razor slashing bath weird soundtrack avant garde targets phantom opera polanski art repulsion seconds plan from outer space alternative underground
Added: February 14, 2008