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I don't have the genetic makeup to be a Mother Theresa but what I do do, I do well.

Some people are extremely disdainful of mainstream movies and will only watch crazy fringe cinema, but in my view, it's like the food pyramid; for a balanced diet, you need nourishment from all levels.

We've never had a culture of late-night horror and sci-fi flicks here like they do in the States, for example. The festival is like one person's ultimate mix-tape of eclectic counter-culture filmmaking. It's also a form of symbiotic voyeurism, because it allows me to watch other people get off on stuff that I usually get off on. Does that sound too pervy? But yeah - in a way, it's like taking people's virginity.

We spend all our time keeping this more primal side of ourselves safely under lock and key, but there's a vicarious thrill in seeing these aspects of ourselves exposed via things like cinema, music and the visual arts. The more you repress these things, the more likely they are to pop out in disturbing new ways, and cinema can be a great release valve for some of that stuff.

[Rex Reed on Come to Daddy (2019)] For no explainable reason, Norval ends up in a motel hosting a sex convention where a prostitute shoves a spike through his head from jaw to jaw. None of it makes a word of sense, & the dialogue, provides ample proof. The writing is filthy & sub-mental, the acting is uniformly dreadful, & if director Ant Timpson has any skill at all behind the camera, he successfully manages to keep it a big secret.