Stephen Thrower
Stephen Thrower, writer and musician, was born in Lancashire in 1963. After moving to London in 1985 he began writing reviews for the seminal horror magazine Shock Xpress, before launching his own film periodical Eyeball in 1989 with contributors including novelist Ramsey Campbell, filmmaker Ron Peck, and critics Kim Newman, Daniel Bird and Alan Jones. His first book, Beyond Terror: The Films of Lucio Fulci, was published in 1999, followed by The Eyeball Compendium (2003) and Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents (2007). His most recent work is Murderous Passions; the delirious cinema of Jesús Franco, published by Strange Attractor in March 2015.
Thrower and his partner Ossian Brown are founders of the avant-garde music group Cyclobe, who recently recorded new soundtracks for three Super-8 films by the British filmmaker and queer activist Derek Jarman (Sulphur, Tarot and Garden of Luxor). As a solo artist, Thrower scored Pakistan’s first gore film, Zibahkhana aka Hell’s Ground (2007), contributed electronic music to Down Terrace (2010) by Ben Wheatley, and was commissioned by the BFI in 2012 to score three silent short films by the pioneering director of gay erotica Peter De Rome.
Upcoming Lectures
Previous Lectures
Jesús Franco: Shooting at the speed of life Thu. Jun. 11, 2015 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT |
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YULETIDE TERROR: CHRISTMAS HORROR ON FILM AND TELEVISION Thu. Dec. 14, 2017 - 7:00 pm GMT - 10:00 pm GMT |
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Getting the Fear: GHOST STORIES' Andy Nyman in Conversation with Stephen Thrower (Lisbon) Sat. Sep. 8, 2018 - 6:30 pm GMT - 7:30 pm GMT |