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Stills and Artwork Courtesy of Norman J. Warren Satan’s Slave, Prey,
Terror
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Vice: When you started making films, the British horror genre was broadly in the “Hammer Horror” tradition, wasn’t it?
Norman J. Warren: Frankenstein But they were a pretty direct translation of the American predecessors?
Terror (1979) Click to enlarge
Satan’s Slave In bringing horror up to date, did you ever try to inject any social commentary or was your main aim to avoid the period trappings of Hammer?
Satan’s Slave As far as making the most entertaining film possible goes, how did that affect the plot or writing process?
Satan’s Slave So is this when you changed your writing technique?
Suspiria Satan’s Slave
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The whole video nasty thing came along after you started making films, but still I can’t believe that you had no trouble making films like these in the mid-70s for a British audience.
Terror What was your view about the whole video nasty hysteria, as someone who had been making fairly groundbreaking horror films years before without complaint?
Driller Killer Nightmare in a Damaged Brain I Spit on Your Grave But your films were heavily sexual. The first films you directed were sex films, weren’t they?
Her Private Hell. Her Private Hell Loving Feeling Did you ever have to hold yourself back from certain levels of violence, sex or gore?
Terror many Censor-wise, surely religion caused problems? Satan’s Slave must have been tough?
Satan’s Slave Satan’s Slave Was Satan’s Slave your main battle with the censors?
Inseminoid
Satan’s Slave (1976) Click to enlarge
Gunpowder Inseminoid It sounds sort of amazing.
Bloody New Year Gunpowder Warbirds The original soundtracks to and , composed by Ivor Slaney, have just been released for the first time by Moscovitch Music.
Stills and Artwork Courtesy of Norman J. Warren Satan’s Slave, Prey,
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Norman J. Warren: Frankenstein But they were a pretty direct translation of the American predecessors?
Terror (1979) Click to enlarge
Inseminoid (1981)
And you were a Hammer fan?Satan’s Slave In bringing horror up to date, did you ever try to inject any social commentary or was your main aim to avoid the period trappings of Hammer?
Satan’s Slave As far as making the most entertaining film possible goes, how did that affect the plot or writing process?
Satan’s Slave So is this when you changed your writing technique?
Suspiria Satan’s Slave
Click to enlarge
The whole video nasty thing came along after you started making films, but still I can’t believe that you had no trouble making films like these in the mid-70s for a British audience.Terror What was your view about the whole video nasty hysteria, as someone who had been making fairly groundbreaking horror films years before without complaint?
Driller Killer Nightmare in a Damaged Brain I Spit on Your Grave But your films were heavily sexual. The first films you directed were sex films, weren’t they?
Her Private Hell. Her Private Hell Loving Feeling Did you ever have to hold yourself back from certain levels of violence, sex or gore?
Terror many Censor-wise, surely religion caused problems? Satan’s Slave must have been tough?
Satan’s Slave Satan’s Slave Was Satan’s Slave your main battle with the censors?
Inseminoid
Satan’s Slave (1976) Click to enlarge
Satan’s Slave (1976)
So where did it go wrong? Why did you stop making films?Gunpowder Inseminoid It sounds sort of amazing.
Bloody New Year Gunpowder Warbirds The original soundtracks to and , composed by Ivor Slaney, have just been released for the first time by Moscovitch Music.
