Nigel Wingrove

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Nigel Wingrove (born 26 October 1957) is the founder of the horror film company

Salvation Films and the Redemption film label and creator of the online alternative female collective, the Satanic Sluts. He is also a film director and the only director to have had a film banned in the UK on the grounds of blasphemy
.

Redemption films

Wingrove founded the film distribution company

Jess Franco, Dario Argento and Peter Walker. Redemption's logo features a white, eyeless face, which is of Wingrove's former girlfriend, the actress and scream queen, Eileen Daly
.

Films

Separate to his work as managing director of

Saint Teresa of Avila with a soundtrack by Steven Severin of Siouxsie and the Banshees and would go on to be banned from distribution on the grounds of blasphemy. Wingrove is currently working on a nunsploitation
film, "Sisters of Armageddon", and an Alice in Wonderland inspired title: "Alice in the Underworld" and producing a series of cosplay themed films for Ghoul Girls, a sister film label to the Satanic Sluts.

Anti-Censorship

In 1996, Wingrove challenged the

BBFC's refusal to grant a certificate to the films Bare Behind Bars, Demoniac (aka Exorcism, 1974) and Sadomania at the Video Appeals Committee, though without success. Visions of Ecstasy was eventually released uncut in 2012, following the 2008 repeal of the UK's blasphemy laws
.

Other work

Designs

Wingrove is also known for his design work, which has a dark erotic style. He has worked on the fetish magazine

Gospel of Filth" (Fab Press, 2009), written by Gavin Baddeley
.

Publications

Wingrove has two books published; "The Art of the Nasty", co-authored with Marc Morris, and "Blood and Dishonour: The Dark, Bloody and Peversely Erotic World of the Satanic Sluts – Satan’s True Sirens". Wingrove has also designed and edited several similarly themed inhouse magazines for Salvation Films, including The Redeemer (1992 - 1995), and the newspaper styled Nihilista (2007-2008) and oversaw the redesign and relaunched of Rule Satannia, a satanic themed magazine linked to the Church of Satan. Wingrove also writes a regular blog, and runs the related quasi arts and politics site "Scum Nation". Wingrove is currently writing his first major reference work, "Strength Through Design – Print Propaganda in the Third Reich" which looks in detail at the magazines and newspapers published by the NSDAP between 1920 and 1945.

Art

Wingrove is currently working on an exhibition of new images inspired by his book, Strength Through Design – Print Propaganda in the Third Reich.

Filmography

References

  1. ^ "Wingrove v. The United Kingdom,(1997) 24 EHRR 1, (1996) ECHR 17419/90". religlaw.org. 13 October 2009. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  2. ^ Wynne-Jones, Ros (28 March 1996). "Salman Rushdie defends Nigel Wingrove's right to freedom of expression". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  3. ^ "Archaic blasphemy law faces last judgment". The Independent. London. 25 November 1996. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 13 October 2009.
  4. ^ Kermode, Mark (12 February 2006). "It's not just Muslims who lay down the law on blasphemers". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 13 October 2009.

Further reading

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/arts-visions-of-redemption-1344278.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/celestial-orgasm-that-went-too-far-1343757.html

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/columnists/article3003316.ece

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2008/apr/06/news.religion

External links

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