22 | Sight&Sound | April 2020
WIDE ANGLE‘ Even by the bargain-basement standards of
exploitation film, Milligan’s pictures are unshakably
weird, like a child’s nightmare. Everything is
fractured and hysterical and half-told, as if some
arrested-development adolescent locked away in the
family closet has busted loose to tell all. The Ghastly
Ones’ message? Men and women destroy each other,
families demolish everything, and people are just no
damn good.’
Jimmy McDonough on The Ghastly Ones‘ Seeds [above] is the beginning of moral decay in
America. Nobody is nice in it, nobody is sympathetic.
Nobody. If you made Seeds now it would be a hit.
Seeds is exactly what people are today.’
Andy Milligan‘ There is a passion, an intensity that Andy brings to
it that is utterly real. This is what makes Milligan
different from so many of the schlockmeisters
churning out kitsch as they smirked behind the
camera – and what makes him so interesting.
Exploitation was no joke to Andy.’
Jimmy McDonough on Torture Dungeon‘ You really can’t
go through life
wanting to be
liked. It’s the
hardest lesson to
learn. Once you
say, “Fuck it, I
don’t care,” then
its easy to relax,
to talk, laugh,
cry, whatever.’
Andy MilliganLittle chop of horrors:
Andy
Milligan
(standing) on the set
of Monstrosity