{"id":4195,"date":"2020-12-03T11:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T11:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/?p=4195"},"modified":"2020-12-03T11:38:56","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T11:38:56","slug":"dr-james-newtons-latest-film-black-lizard-tales-reviewed-in-horrified-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/12\/03\/dr-james-newtons-latest-film-black-lizard-tales-reviewed-in-horrified-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr James Newton&#8217;s latest film, Black Lizard Tales, reviewed in Horrified Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School of Arts Lecturer, Dr James Newton&#8217;s latest film has been reviewed in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.horrifiedmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/the-cine-excess-international-film-festival-black-lizard-tales\/\"> Horrified Magazine<\/a> by Ellis Reed. Ellis Reed writes, &#8220;<em>Black Lizard Tales<\/em> is an often unsettling, always compelling movie. People who prefer straightforward stories will be disappointed by the (deliberate) loose ends, but it\u2019s worth taking <em>Black Lizard Tales<\/em> on its own terms because it\u2019s a great example of microbudget filmmaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Black Lizard Tales<\/em> 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. <em>Black Lizard Tales<\/em> features ghostly visions, demon worship, and serial murder set on an English university campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School of Arts Lecturer, Dr James Newton&#8217;s latest film has been reviewed in Horrified Magazine by Ellis Reed. Ellis Reed writes, &#8220;Black Lizard Tales is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/2020\/12\/03\/dr-james-newtons-latest-film-black-lizard-tales-reviewed-in-horrified-magazine\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40592,"featured_media":4196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1123,124,9111],"tags":[223353,239462,100401],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4195\/revisions\/4198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/arts-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}