The Otherwise: The Screenplay For A Horror Film That Never Was by Mark E. Smith & Graham Duff 304pp b/w Illustrated throughout 210mm x 148mm
Publication date: 14.05.2021
£19.99
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'Read The Otherwise and shed a tear for one of cinema's great, long-lost screenplays.' - Ben Wheatley
In 2015, Mark E. Smith of legendary post-punk group The Fall and screenwriter Graham Duff co-wrote the script for a horror feature film entitled The Otherwise.
The Fall are recording an EP in an isolated recording studio on Pendle Hill. The surrounding Lancashire landscape is at the mercy of a Satanic biker gang, and haunted by Scottish clansmen who have slipped through time from the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.
Every film production company they showed it to said it was 'too weird' to ever be made. Yes, The Otherwise is weird. It's also witty, shocking, and genuinely scary. Now the screenplay is published for the first time, alongside handwritten notes and previously unpublished photographs by Jim Moir and Smith's widow and Fall keyboardist Elena Poulou.
Also within are essays by Duff and Poulou, and transcripts of conversations between Smith and Duff, in which they discuss creativity, dreams, musical loves (from Can to acid house) and favourite films (from Britannia Hospital to White Heat).
In 2015, Mark E. Smith of legendary post-punk group The Fall and screenwriter Graham Duff co-wrote the script for a horror feature film entitled The Otherwise.
The Fall are recording an EP in an isolated recording studio on Pendle Hill. The surrounding Lancashire landscape is at the mercy of a Satanic biker gang, and haunted by Scottish clansmen who have slipped through time from the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745.
Every film production company they showed it to said it was 'too weird' to ever be made. Yes, The Otherwise is weird. It's also witty, shocking, and genuinely scary. Now the screenplay is published for the first time, alongside handwritten notes and previously unpublished photographs by Jim Moir and Smith's widow and Fall keyboardist Elena Poulou.
Also within are essays by Duff and Poulou, and transcripts of conversations between Smith and Duff, in which they discuss creativity, dreams, musical loves (from Can to acid house) and favourite films (from Britannia Hospital to White Heat).
