NEIL GAIMAN'S A SHORT FILM ABOUT JOHN BOLTON - Neil Gaiman, dir

©2003
studio: New Video Group
production company:
director: Neil Gaiman
cast: John O'Mahony, Marcus Brigstocke, Carolyn Backhouse, Jonathan Ross, Tree Petts, John Bolton, Judith Clute, Jayne Setchfield, Denise Worme, Bette Marenko, Katie Lawrie, Martin Cordier
screenplay: Neil Gaiman

A 'documentary' exploring the dark, horrific paintings of artist John Bolton.

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This was classic horror. It was eery. It made me uncomfortable. I didn't want to watch, and yet I couldn't help myself.

I was actually believing that all was a real documentary, but a few comments made by the art dealer, the gallery owner, made me start to wonder. She pushed it just a little too much. And then the artist himself seemed a little too uncomfortable in his quirkiness (true quirkiness is very comfortable).

Certainly by the time we are off to visit the artists studio it is clear that we are in for something odd and that it just isn't real.

But it certainly made me shiver in the way good horror will.