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Andy Milligan (January 31, 1929 – June 3, 1991) was an American playwright, screenwriter, and film director whose work includes 27 films made between 1965 and 1991. Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Milligan died of AIDS in 1991 at the age of 62.
Self-taught as a filmmaker and responsible for much of the creative activity on his films (including cinematography and costume design), Milligan might be described as an outsider artist. Milligan's films often dwell on the topics of transgression and punishment, familial relationships, repressed sexuality, and physical deformity and include such titles as Fleshpot on 42nd Street (1973), The Rats are Coming! The Werewolves are Here! (1973), Guru, the Mad Monk (1970), Gutter Trash (1969), The Ghastly Ones (1968), Depraved! (1967), and The Naked Witch (1964). Most of Milligan's early works are currently considered lost films.
During the early 1960s, Milligan became involved in the nascent off-off-Broadway theatre movement, mounting productions of plays by Lord Dunsany and Jean Genet at the Caffe Cino as well as directing productions at Cafe La Mama La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. During the same period, he operated and designed for a clothing boutique named Ad Lib and used his dressmaking skills to costume many theatrical productions. Milligan began directing films in the mid-1960s. His first film was a black and white 16 mm short entitled Vapors (1965). The film,set in a gay bathhouse, portrays the emotionally awkward and unconsummated meeting between two strangers. Milligan was later employed by producers of exploitation films, particularly William Mishkin, to direct soft-core sexploitation and horror features, many featuring actors known from the off-off Broadway theater community.
Filmography
- 1990 - Surgikill
- 1989 - Monstrosity
- 1989 - The Weirdo
- 1983 - Carnage
- 1978 - Legacy of Blood
- 1974 - Blood
- 1972 - Fleshpot on 42nd Street
- 1972 - The Man with Two Heads
- 1972 - The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here!
- 1971 - Dragula (lost)
- 1970 - The Body Beneath
- 1970 - Guru, the Mad Monk
- 1970 - Bloodthirsty Butchers
- 1969 - Torture Dungeon
- 1969 - Nightbirds (lost)
- 1968 - Gutter Trash (lost)
- 1968 - Seeds (first and last reels of the work print and hacked-up Seeds of Sin version)
- 1968 - The Filthy Five (lost)
- 1968 - Tricks of the Trade (lost)
- 1968 - The Ghastly Ones
- 1968 - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me! (lost)
- 1967 - Depraved! (lost)
- 1967 - Liz (lost)
- 1967 - The Degenerates (lost)
- 1967 - Compass Rose (lost)
- 1965 - Vapors
- 1964 - The Naked Witch (lost)
References
- Jimmy McDonough, The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan Chicago Review Press 2003, ISBN 1-55652-495-1
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