The Degenerate: The Life & Films of Andy Milligan
UK PREMIERE - DISCOVERY SCREEN TWO
Directors: Josh Johnson, Grayson Tyler Johnson. Stars: Gerry Jaccuzo, Hope Stansbury, Stephen Thrower, Jimmy McDonough. USA 2025. 101 mins.
He was a pioneer of avant-garde theatre, a trailblazer of early Queer cinema, and remains one of the most divisive talents in exploitation and horror history. Now the truth can be told about multi-task creative Andy Milligan, ‘The Fassbinder of 42nd Street’, and his “depraved, desperate and damned” legacy. Via revealing interviews with Milligan’s performers, partners and biographer and clips from his deranged oeuvre including THE GHASTLY ONES, BLOODTHIRSTY BUTCHERS and TORTURE DUNGEON, a portrait emerges of a gutter auteur who battled and antagonised his own demons to become one of the most transgressive outsider artists of the 20th century.
