SEVERIN FILMS TAKES FRIGHTFEST 2023 by STORM WITH TWO KICK-ASS DOCUMENTARIES MANCUNIAN MAN & ENTER the CLONES of BRUCE
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SEVERIN FILMS TAKES FRIGHTFEST 2023 BY STORM WITH TWO KICK-ASS DOCUMENTARIES
MANCUNIAN MAN & ENTER THE CLONES OF BRUCE
Meet Cliff Twemlow – AKA Mancunian Man… Bouncer. Novelist. Composer. Screenwriter. Producer. Star. Stuntman.
In 1980s Britain Twemlow was all of these and much, much more. For more than a decade, he was in fact Britain’s most prolific indie filmmaker and in his hometown of Manchester, he was – and remains – a bone-fide legend.
Between 1992 and 1993, he gathered a devoted team, including local doormen, martial artists, variety performers, club DJs, models, girlfriends, gym friends, family members and B-listers and created his own cut-rate Hollywood empire.
Perhaps best known for the ultra-violent G.B.H. (Grievous Bodily Harm) – which was banned as one of the notorious Video Nasties – Twemlow was a true trailblazer. Shooting with pioneering video technology, composing the music himself and working to almost non-existent budgets – he crafted movies of all genres, from gangster flicks to horror films, spy thrillers to sci-fi epics and beyond, with the help of his unlikely ensemble of misfits.
Now his unbelievable, but totally true story is brought to life by director Jake West (Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape, Razor Blade Smile and Doghouse) and Severin Films through exclusive new interviews, insane film clips and rare behind-the-scenes footage.
There’s only one real Mancunian Man, a true one-of-a-kind legend whose story needs to be seen to be believed.
Screens Sunday 27th August at 8.50 pm – Empire Main Screen
When the world’s most famous martial artist and screen icon Bruce Lee died in 1974, at just 32 years of age, he’d completed only four films. But within hours of his funeral, Hong Kong studios began producing hundreds of unauthorised biopics, sequels, prequels and spin-offs, finding a new legion of stars whose main skill was that they were Lee lookalikes. Over the next decade, ‘Bruceploitation’ would become a staple of global cinema.
Now Enter the Clones of Bruce in a cinematic story like no other, as director David Gregory – following his exploration of cinema’s most transgressive edges in award-winning documentaries Lost Soul and Blood & Flesh – shines a light on this uniquely ‘70s phenomenon with this fascinating film.
The documentary takes us on an all-action, entertaining journey that hears from those who lived it. There are eye-opening interviews with performers, producers, directors and distributors along with copious clips from the films revealing one of the most bizarre and little-known stories in movie history.
The legend of Bruce Lee lives on in Enter the Clones of Bruce, an enthralling, jaw-dropping, kick-ass story of martial arts mayhem and the many clones of a true master.
Screens Sunday 27th August at 4 pm – Discovery Screen 1
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