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Pete Walker

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Biography

Pete Walker (born 1939 in Brighton, Sussex) is an English film director, writer and producer, specialising in horror and sexploitation films, frequently combining the two.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] His films include Die Screaming, Marianne, The Flesh and Blood Show, House of Whipcord, Frightmare, House of Mortal Sin, Schizo, The Comeback, and House of the Long Shadows. His films often featured sadistic authority figures, such as priests or judges, punishing anyone - usually young women - who doesn't conform to their strict personal moral codes, but he has denied there being any political subtext to his films. Because of the speed with which he had to make his films, Walker often used the same reliable actors, including Andrew Sachs and Sheila Keith, the latter playing memorable villainesses in four of Walker's pictures. Malcolm McLaren hired Walker to direct a documentary on The Sex Pistols entitled A Star Is Dead. Walker was an unlikely choice of director for this project and the deal fell through when the band split up. Walker's work was reviled and condemned by some contemporary critics, while others were surprised to find relatively sophisticated subtexts in what were made and marketed as commercial exploitation films. Although Walker's movies have never undergone a critical reappraisal in the same way as Hammer films or his American contemporaries Tobe Hooperand Wes Craven, the release in 2005 of a DVD boxed set of five of his films was greeted with some good notices in the British national press. On his own work, Walker has said when asked if his films had hidden depths, "Of course they didn't. But recently I had to record commentary for the DVD releases, so I saw the films for the first time since making them, and you know what? They're not as bad as I thought. But searching for hidden meaning ... they were just films. All I wanted to do was create a bit of mischief."[8]

Homepage: http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/546958/

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House of Whipcord
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Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
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Schizo
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The Flesh and Blood Show
36600
Frightmare
38446
House of the Long Shadows
39164
Man of Violence
47973
House of Whipcord
86643
Die Screaming Marianne
86644
The Big Switch
88252
House of Mortal Sin
106679
The Comeback
106682
Cool It Carol
110703
The Four Dimensions of Greta
125754
Home Before Midnight
145660
School for Sex
146192
Der Porno-Graf von Schweden
162983
Tiffany Jones
163997
For Men Only
330047
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