Adam Scovell is a writer and filmmaker from The Wirral, currently based in London. He is studying for a PhD in film music and transcendental style at the University of Liverpool and Goldsmiths. He has produced film and art criticism for more than 20 digital and print publications including The Times and The Guardian, runs the Blog North Awards-nominated website Celluloid Wicker Man, and has had film work screened at FACT, The Everyman Playhouse, Hackney Picturehouse and Manchester Art Gallery. In 2015, he worked with Robert Macfarlane on an adaptation of his Sunday Times bestseller, Holloway. At present he is filming a number of projects on super-8 film including a collaboration with Iain Sinclair, and working on a book on folk horror for Auteur Publishing.
Articles by Adam Scovell
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From the Magazine
S&S contributors reflect on the late artist and filmmaker as cinematic pioneer, (self)portraitist, joy-maker, word poet, cartographer, multimedia artist and visual stylist, from our 90th birthday tribute issue.
Monday, April 1, 2019
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One great horror film per decade (1928-2018)
The evolution of the scary movie at 10-year paces: one for every ninth year of the decade, from 1928 to 2018.
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
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Performance – In search of the locations for the Mick Jagger classic, 50 years later
Delayed for release by its own studio, Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell’s Performance is a kaleidoscopic odyssey into the dark heart of swinging London. Half a century since it was filmed, Adam Scovell went looking for its locations.
Monday, August 20, 2018
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Where to begin with Harold Pinter on screen
Your next obsession: the bruising dramas of Harold Pinter
Friday, June 29, 2018
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Ghosts summoned from the land: Paul Wright on his old-weird-Britain mashup Arcadia
Folk horror and hidden histories are stirred up into a magnificent vision of Britain in Paul Wright’s Arcadia. He tells Adam Scovell about his process for sifting through forgotten archive footage to find the present inside the past.
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
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40 years on, is The Shout the scariest sound in film?
An unquiet place… 40 years ago, blood curdled across the land as Jerzy Skolimowski unleashed the sonic terror of his visionary British horror oddity The Shout. Here’s why it’s still ringing in our ears.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
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The terror of the old ways: 50 years of Witchfinder General
Made just before his tragic death at 25, Michael Reeves’ horror masterpiece Witchfinder General exposed an English countryside rife with superstition and savagery.
Friday, May 18, 2018
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Rare images of Jean-Luc Godard hanging out with The Rolling Stones
At the peak of their mutual fame, daring French director Jean-Luc Godard and The Rolling Stones joined forces in the summer of ‘68 for a legendary film capturing the band in the studio during the ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ sessions.
Friday, May 4, 2018
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Why there’s more going on in The Old Dark House than you might think
All manner of taboo themes are rattling around in the classic haunted house horror The Old Dark House, you just need to know where to spot them…
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
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Kes: in search of the locations for Ken Loach’s classic
In 1969, Ken Loach made British film history with his classic tale of a boy and his kestrel. Half a century later, tracking down the Kes locations needs eyes like a hawk…
Friday, April 13, 2018
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