BLOOD JUNKIES *** UK 1993 Dir: Bruce Naughton. 59 mins Shot in 16mm on a real Scottish council estate with a crew apparently paid in Brie sandwiches, this ambitious early 90’s vampire picture was inspired by writer-director Naughton’s hatred of Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA and funded from a combination of…
Browsing: Bruce Naughton
“Predating both the social realism horror of I, Zombie etc and the junkie-porn vogue sparked by Trainspotting, it has an ancient vampire preying on heroin addicts in Edinburgh tower blocks” – British Horror Revival In 1993, inspired by the success of US indie features such as El Mariachi, Scottish…