Craig Williams on Movies That Changed Your Life: Eyes Wide Shut, Suspiria, She Killed In Ecstasy

Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with filmmaker Craig Williams, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Eyes Wide Shut analysis, Suspiria influence, and She Killed In Ecstasy impact on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Craig also discusses making of Welsh language folk horror short film - The Wyrm Of Bwlch Pen Barras

Movies That Changed Your Life  

Find out about how Craig Williams made the Welsh language folk horror short film The Wyrm Of Bwlch Pen Barras and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright’s movie podcast.  

[1:13] Making of Welsh language folk horror short film - The Wyrm Of Bwlch Pen Barras

[24:20] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life

Eyes Wide Shut Analysis 

[24:55] Craig Williams shares how Eyes Wide Shut is the first new Kubrick film since he had been into films. He used to cut out bits on the film from the Radio Times. He thinks it has some kind of occult energy. Like it hides some kind of truth.

Suspiria impact

[29:55] Craig Williams shares memories of watching Suspiria for the first time when he was 19 and how it fostered his love of cinema when it’s a pure mode of sensation. When it’s the base image art form and it should be. It’s a moving image and a solitary spectator. 

She Killed In Ecstasy Influence  

[35:41] Craig Williams talks about She Killed In Ecstasy, a 1970s film directed by Jess Franco. A director he has got into over the last decade but has become the defining filmmaker of his film watching and filmmaking life.  

Key Takeaways:  

- Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth.

- Learn about how Craig Williams made the Welsh language folk horror short film The Wyrm Of Bwlch Pen Barras

- Understand cinema’s transformative power through Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Suspiria (1977), She Killed In Ecstasy (1971)

 - Full show notes and transcript: 

About the Guest:  

Craig Williams is Welsh filmmaker and programmer

You can watch THE WYRM OF BWLCH PEN BARRAS on the Arrow Player and/or as part of the boxset ALL THE HAUNTS BE OURS: A COMPENDIUM OF FOLK HORROR VOL. 2 [13-DISC BLU-RAY BOX SET + HARDCOVER BOOK] ⁠https://severinfilms.com/en-gb/collections/box-sets/products/all-the-haunts-be-ours-a-compendium-of-folk-horror-vol-2-13-disc-blu-ray-box-set-hardback-book

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Credits:  

Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (⁠https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/⁠) 

Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](⁠https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/⁠)  
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