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Gothic for Radicals: The Horror Films of Gordon Hessler and Christopher Wicking

Book cover for Gothic for Radicals: The Horror Films of 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:

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.

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