16 May 2008

Pete Walker is a filmmaker you may love or hate, but that's a fence few tend to sit on without tumbling into one camp or another. A British horror director of distinctive style, his questionable oeuvre includes such genre favourites as House of Whipcord and Frightmare (both 1974) and whose 1983 House of Long Shadows deserves a mention for uniting horror stars Vincent Price, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and John Carradine.

His 1976 Schizo is a vicious and pleasingly unpleasant slasher movie starring Stephanie Beacham (Dracula AD 1972, Inseminoid) and real life bad girl Lynne Frederick (Vampire Circus), who was married to both Peter Sellers and David Frost but who died of substance abuse. A young woman, who as a child witnessed the violent murder of her mother, marries and then finds that her close friends are being murdered one by one and that each death seems to be bringing her closer to the killer.

Schizo is to be released on UK DVD by Redemption on 26th May 2008 at the RRP of £12.99. The disc will feature an anamorphic widescreen transfer, a stills gallery and a Pete Walker filmography.