School of Arts Lecturer, Dr James Newton’s latest film, Black Lizard Tales, premiered at the Cine-Excess Festival on Sunday 8 November. Black Lizard Tales draws on the traditions of surrealism and iconography associated with European cult cinema of the 1970s in a monochrome, non-linear unfolding of three interconnected horror stories. In the film, a Professor of Psychology with a dark secret, a nun terrified of dying, and a traumatised young woman all come together in this trio of intersecting horror stories. Black Lizard Tales features ghostly visions, demon worship, and serial murder set on an English university campus.
Cine-Excess is an annual international film festival and conference, with this year’s online conference titled, ‘Representations as Weapons: Cult Film and the Politics of Resistance‘.
James Newton was also nominated for Best Director at the Diabolical Horror Film Festival 2020.