This is a pretty interesting remark:

"We find it very gratifying to have guests. Sometimes, these directors are working on a desert island of sorts, and here we get to bring them an audience—seven hundred people or a thousand people who will pay money to see their films, sit in a theatre screaming for them, and then come up and talk to them afterwards and buy them drinks. I heard that Richard Stanley had pretty much stopped writing scripts and then after coming to Montreal went home and wrote, like, five of them in a year. He was rejuvenated."

Down and Dirty with the FanTasia Festival

Stanley's been screening his works in FanTasia in '97 (Dust Devil), '98 (Hardware) and '03 (docus).

Actually, that's really nice to hear.

So, was it Montreal, the audience or a couple of drinks?

Anthing to make the man happy, as far as I'm concerned. Here's to someday seeing a complete version of "Hardware" put out that's sanctioned by Mr. Stanley himself.(*champagne glasses being thrown into fireplace*)

"In the mid 1990’s, my cousin was hitch-hiking around central Africa when he fell in with a mysterious stranger, wandering from town to town, country to country, with no particular agenda. They got to talking, and it turned out the traveller was South African-born but based in England; a filmmaker by trade. He was taking some time out of his career after a few disappointing setbacks, exploring the outer reaches of what had once been known as the Dark Continent. He had a fascination with the supernatural, and an encyclopaedic knowledge of cinema. His name was Richard Stanley, and that career has been on hold ever since."

From notcoming.com

If memory serves me right, Stanley started pushing THE SECRET GLORY project forward in '97/98, visiting France and Germany investigating and shooting footage. This is likely what he did on his downtime prior to that.

Funny!

Our is a very small world...

Anyway, I don't like the review....

"I had recently started reading Fangoria's 101 Best Horror Movies You've Never Seen. I guess it might be okay for the newer fans that might not have heard of some of these titles, since they state that was their goal. Though, I do think that even the newest of fans would have heard of, if not definitely seen Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD. But none the less, I couldn't believe when I came across the plot description for Richard Stanley's HARDWARE.

"Our protagonist, Mo (Dylan McDermott) is a junk collector, who ventures out into the desolate, dangerous zones to collect his scraps, then sells them to his main client - an artsy sculptress and welder named Jill (Stacey Travis), who, in postapocalyptic fashion, has never left her home to see the outside world. Sexual sparks fly between Mo and Jill, and before long the two get hot and heavy. There is just one problem: the junk Mo has collected for Jill this time around is actually pieces of MARK 13. While the lovers embrace, the MARK 13 slowly reassembles itself. Once alive, it's rather pissed off - and no one is safe."

Okay, without giving the REAL storyline away, anybody who has seen this movie will realize that the person writing that description...hasn't. Once again, I just don't understand how people can get away with writing stuff about they don't know. Yea, I know this was only 1 out of 101 movies, but I'm still checking the rest of the write-ups. The real kicker is that the co-authors are Adam Lukeman & Fangoria magazine, and the editor is Fango's editor Tony Timpone. Maybe I'm just being a little too anal about my reference books being accurate. What do you think? Go on over to our Message Board and let us know what your thoughts are about this? Am I making too big of a deal of this?"

- http://www.kitleyskrypt.com/mainmenu2intro.htm


Way to go, Fango!

That reviewer just described about one tenth of the movie, leaving out practically everything else. It makes it sound like a 10 minute short, or (worse) a soft-core movie.

This is why I generally disregard anything critics have to say. Over here in the US, even a big (literally) critic like Roger Ebert will reveal that he hasn't seen a movie he's reviewing. (When you read his description of how scenes play out and he's WAY off base, you suspect someone fed him the story.)

"-- The 1980s and 1990s were a time when English-language horror films seemed most influenced by the Friday the 13th series, which identified and exploited the huge youth market for horror, and the roller-coaster ride of spectacular dreamscapes and cruel Henny Youngman invective promised by each new installment in the increasingly cartoonish Nightmare on Elm Street series.

At the time, a South African-born director named Richard Stanley was working in England, making a couple of movies that recaptured exactly the sense of unease that had fled mainstream genre movies."

The blog

Stanley in middle at the Oldenburg Filmfestival, 2001. Fresh from the world premiere of THE SECRET GLORY.



- http://www.filmfest-oldenburg.de/index.php?page=04b

link?

Sorry don't mean to double post, I would have edited my previous post to include this but there doesn't appear to be an edit post function?

Anyway, check it out...
http://www.endfistula.org/fortnight/slideshow/
Photo's by film maker Richard Stanley.

They're taken by his namesake, a colleague filmmaker - sic.

Is (or should be). Try logging out and back again.

I've been having a lot of trouble replying on this board. Sometimes if I hit reply it just send me straight back to the forum list, same goes for the edit function.

At first I thought it was because I was on a Mac, but Im on a PC today and Im having the same problem. It's worked this time for some reason, but Im having to hit reply a few times before it takes me to the correct reply window.

"It would have made better sense for my career to do something more accessible than going back to South Africa and filming a serial-killer movie.”

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