Where Daydreams are Nightmares,
And Death is a Way of Life.
Namedrop. Philip Nutman, author of 'WET WORK',and screenwriter of Jack Ketchum's 'THE GIRL NEXT DOOR', wrote the buy-line for 'GORDON THE MOVIE': "Where Daydreams are Nightmares, And Death is a Way of Life". He also worked on the film. All when he was but a schoolboy. ...
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Super 8. 57 minutes total.
Part Two of eight-ish...shooting began 1979, premiered 1982...made up of fragments
of planned film as star Gordon and 2 other cast died during shooting....star replaced by life sized dummy...Gordon plays purveyor of bits of famous dead people....his actual funeral is finale of film, at which his dummy and most recent victim also appear.
See my blogsite http://biginbrasil.blogspot.com/2008/... for first installment of the story of making Gordon the Movie, plus magazine articles etc.
Made on Super 8 using facilities of Workshop Films, Bath, UK by Paul Nachman ( Nasher).
Press Quotes:
"You've heard of low budget, well this is no-budget..."
"Makes Herzog's Fitzcarraldo look like a day trip to Margate..."
"A surreal epic of bad taste and nightmarish morality..."
"Parochial surrealism on a grand scale..."
"What a load of morbid shit..."
All my "Gordon the Movie" posts have been hijacked & reposted with pokersite spam added in "More Info", or in the film itself. I've complained to YouTube & flagged the hijacked versions many times, but YT have done nothing,nor sent me any response.
It's being done to loads of other users vids too (...maybe yours??)
The culprits are niferGYN, enPXLeSa, zabethsr
and cy3s2vBu.
If you check out their channels, you'll find all their videos have been nicked from other users & spam added.
nasher53 3 years ago
Hey... Thats my grandad!
DanReborn 4 years ago
Where were you when he needed you??
When we shot outdoors using the lifesize dummy of Gordon (after he died), people asked us if 'our grandad' was ok, because he looked a bit ill. They were right, you can't get sicker than being a dummy.
nasher53 4 years ago