Nigel Kneale: Manx writer of intelligent British Isles horror and science fiction
Nigel Kneale, writer (1922-2006). So it goes. (Photograph by Mark Gudgeon)
When I recently chatted to writer Chris Lincé about science fiction and horror, inevitably the writer Nigel Kneale came up in conversation.
Chris is a fan of the movie Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) which I have never seen, largely because Nigel Kneale felt the producers had butchered his script. Chris thinks it remains a fascinating script (which has nothing whatever to do with the two previous Halloween films) because Nigel Kneale is such a fascinatingly original writer.
Yesterday I saw that, in London, the National Film Theatre’s October programme says they are screening both Nigel Kneale’s 1954 BBC TV version of George Orwell’s 1984 and the recently rediscovered (with 10 minutes missing) 1965 BBC TV version.
In 1979, I interviewed Nigel Kneale for Starburst magazine. I talked to him at his home. He was 57 at…
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