- Data di nascita
- Pete Walker è nato il 4 luglio 1939. Luogo di nascita: Inghilterra, Regno Unito. È conosciuto come regista e produttore. È celebre per aver partecipato a Man of Violence (1970), L'allegro college delle vergini inglesi (1969) e La casa delle ombre lunghe (1983).
- After directing La casa delle ombre lunghe (1983), he decided to retire from filmmaking. He owns a couple of cinemas around England called Picturedome.
- Cast actress Sheila Keith in five of his films.
- Was originally planning to make a musical film starring Sex Pistols called "The Star Is Dead"; the project got postponed after the group split up.
- To cut down on the budget, most of his night scenes were shot during the day in Day for night mode.
- David McGillivray wrote the scripts for four of Walker's movies.: E sul corpo tracce di violenza (1974), Nero criminale - Le belve sono tra noi (1974), La casa del peccato mortale (1976), and La terza mano (1976).
- I was the uninvited guest to the British film industry. Nobody wanted to know me. I knew I wanted to make films, but I would see these serious-looking guys going around with scripts under their arm, spending three or four years trying to get their films made. I couldn't be like that - I had to make a living and I wanted to get behind a camera and shout "action". So I would go out and shoot something like L'allegro college delle vergini inglesi (1969) - God, that was a terrible film - and a few weeks later every cinema in the country would be showing it.
- But recently I had to record commentary for the DVD releases [of Chi vive in quella casa? (1978) and La casa delle ombre lunghe (1983)], so I saw the films for the first time since making them, and you know what? They're not as bad as I thought. But searching for hidden meaning . . . they were just films. All I wanted to do was create a bit of mischief.
- I've got to say this and I got to be quite honest: I was never a horror film fan. I never considered myself to be a horror filmmaker. I considered myself to be a terror filmmaker. I never thought of myself as making horror movies. I was making thrillers. If you wanted to say that they were verging on horror, I'd rather use the word terror.
- [ why he liked casting Shiela Keith in his horror films] Sheila Keith was a lady who lived a quiet life with her dogs and her cats and came into work to do, brilliantly, whatever was asked of her. She was like your nice old aunt who would serve you cucumber sandwiches before ripping into a dismembered limb - without complaining.
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