Jack Stevenson is an American film writer living in Denmark since 1993 with a dual speciality in American exploitation and Danish cinema. His books include Lars von Trier (BFI), Dogme Uncut (Santa Monica Press), Addicted (Creation Books), Fleshpot and Land of a Thousand Balconies (Headpress), Witchcraft Through the Ages for FAB (UK) and Scandinavian Blue (McFarland). His latest book is The Haunted North: Horror Stories from Viking Country, 10 historically based, real-life horror stories from Scandinavia including shocking and scintillating tales about witchcraft, plague, mad kings, hypnotized killers, nymphos, Nazi collaborators, etc. Penned in a narrative, non-academic writing style and featuring original artwork by German comics artist Eva Müller. 
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He told me about when his piano player canceled out of a silent movie performance. “I walked outside during the kiddie matinee and saw some young people loading musical instruments[…]
Actors & Personalities · Exploitation & Erotica
When people die there is usually an element of shock to the news, but when I heard Jean Hill passed away this week (8/21/13) I wasn’t shocked, since her health[…]
Actors & Personalities · Experimental & Underground
“Marion’s character in Thundercrack!, the daft and delusional farm widow Gert Hammond, harkened back to a much more handcrafted Tennessee Williamsesque archetype. She infuses Gert with real pathos as well as genuine creepiness in a series of hauntingly photographed monologues that transcend the film’s threadbare conceits.”
Actors & Personalities · Experimental & Underground
“Bob and the new people he introduced us to were very inspiring because it meant to me, by seeing them, that you can get older and still run around in a world of uncharted horizons.” – George Kuchar
Directors · Experimental & Underground
[Editor’s note: George Kuchar passed away in San Francisco on Tuesday, September 6, 2011, age 69. The cause was prostate cancer. He was beloved by many, and was certainly a[…]
Essays · Exploitation & Erotica · Film Technology & History · Movie Theatres
“There are no start times, there are no intermissions . . . there is no beginning, there is no end.” The movie exhibition business has always been extremely volatile. The[…]
“Tease was out, honesty was in.”
The scandal-plagued release of Lars von Trier’s latest film inspired Jack Stevenson, American expat in Copenhagen, to take a deeper look at the film in a Danish context.
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica
Impossible…
From the regional to the international and back in a few short years
Directors · Experimental & Underground
Forget all those other boring indie brother teams – these guys were the original geniuses of cinema’s bargain basement. The sudden death, disappearance, or withdrawal of a key actor during[…]
