Stephen Gallagher Movies
- 1998
This three-part British miniseries stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Harper, an English schoolteacher living and working in Switzerland. In need of extra money, Jim volunteers to be a guinea pig for a secret drug experiment conducted by a high-profile pharamaceutical firm. Upon realizing that his subconscious is now linked to hundreds of zombified Russian soldiers, Jim also figures out that he's been a dupe in a master scheme to take over the world via mass hypnosis. As a result, he is forced to go on the run, unable to determine who his friends and enemies truly are. Combining a standard apocalyptic yarn with a bizarre romantic subplot, Oktober is adapted by Stephen Gallagher from his own novel, and first aired on April 2, 1998. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1996
Made in Slovenia by American documentary filmmaker Michael Benson, this documentary offers a thought-provoking look at the history of the recently formed Republic of Slovenia and how it relates to the earlier formation of the controversial NSK (the New Slovenian Arts collective). The NSK came together in the '80s just before the fall of the Communist party, Yugoslavia broke into several war-torn nations. It was begun by Laibach, a popular industrial rock band and later joined by the Red Pilot theater group and by Irwin, a band of painters. As collective artists, they used their arts to look back into European history and show the destruction wrought when ideology overshadows humanity. Art plays a subtle but key role in ideological domination. With history as their basis, NSK predicted the eruption of hatred and war that would tear Yugoslavia apart in the '90s. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1991
Chimera was originally produced for Britain's BBC television network. The title creature is a half man, half ape (Douglas Mann), the product of a hush-hush government project. Journalist John Lynch gets wind of the experiment when his girlfriend dies in a fertility clinic explosion. At the center of things is a mad-as-a-hatter scientist, whom the government continues to protect until it's almost Too Late. Christine Kavanaugh costars in this new twist on the old Frankenstein story. Chimera premiered in the US over the A&E Cable service on November 1, 1992. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1990
Re-titled for American release, Monkey Boy is actually an edited version of Lawrence Clark's British production Chimera, about a half-human, half-ape creature who plots a murderous plan of escape from the genetics lab that gave him life. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
