Description

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An influential figure in the 1970s British indie cinema, producer/director Pete Walker tested the limits of film censorship in the UK with a stringof gruesome and erotic thrillers.

This second anthology of films by Pete Walker reveals the provocative director at his most diabolical. Whether skewering highbrow drama (TheFlesh and Blood Show), established religion (House of Mortal Sin), or legal hypocrisy (Home Before Midnight) Walker laces his films with a wicked sense of humour and healthy dollops of sex and violence. One perfect example is the legendary shocker Frightmare, which stars the late Sheila Keith as a fortune-teller-slash-cannibal in the English countryside. Also featured in this collection are two of Walker’s early works: man of Violence (aka Moon) and The Big Switch (aka Strip Poker), which clearly foreshadow the taste for the perverse (and the flair for cynical humour) that would later become his hallmarks.

Special Features

  • Interview with Pete Walker by Elijah Drenner.
  • The Flesh and Blood Show
    • Flesh, Blood and Censorship an interviewwith Pete Walker, by Elijah Drenner
    • Sequence in the stereoscopic format (requires 3-D TV system)
      and anaglyph format (requires red/blue 3-D glasses, not included)
  • Frightmare
    • For the sake of Cannibalism an interview withPete Walker, by Elijah Drenner.
    • Audio commentary by Pete Walker and DP Peter Jessop, conducted by writer Steve Chibnall
    • Sheila Keith: A Nice Old Lady? – a profile of the late actress
  • House of Mortal Sin
    • An Eye for Terror, an interview with Pete Walker
    • Audio commentary by Pete Walker
  • Home Before Midnight
    • Promiscuous Behaviour – an interview with Pete Walker
  • Bonus Disc
    • Man of Action an interview with Pete Walker
  • The Flesh and Blood Show
    • UK 1972 Colour 96 min 1.78:1
    • Produced & Directed by Pete Walker
    • With Ray Brooks, Jenny Henley, Luan Peters
  • House of Mortal Sin
    • Produced & Directed by Pete Walker
    • With Sheila Keith, Anthony Sharp, Norman Eshley
  • Frightmare
    • UK 1974 Colour 86 min 1.66:1
    • Produced & Directed by Pete Walker
    • With Sheila Keith, Rupert Davies, Deborah Fairfax
  • Home Before Midnight
    • UK 1979 Colour 110 min 1.66:1
    • Produced & Directed by Pete Walker
    • With James Aubrey, Alison Elliot, Mark Burns, Juliet Harmer
  • Man of Violence (aka Moon)
    • UK 1971 Colour 108 min 1.33:1
    • Produced & Directed by Pete Walker
    • With Michael Latimer, Luan Peters
  • The Big Switch (aka Strip Poker)
    • UK 1968 Colour 68 min 1.33:1
    • Produced & Directed by Pete Walker