Christian Keßler

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Christian Keßler (born August 8, 1968 in Bremen ) is a German film critic , author and film producer .

Life

Keßler studied German and English in Göttingen and Oldenburg . He has been working as a freelance film journalist since his student days. Keßler was best known for his articles on genre films and filmmakers in the magazine Splatting Image . He interviewed numerous filmmakers from this field and wrote books on Italian horror and western films, which are popular among fans because they are out of print, standard works. The Runner Screen, a book about the American porn film of the 1970s, was published in 2011 by Martin Schmitz Verlag .

He also writes liner notes for various DVD booklets; a detailed, 14-page article can be found in the 2006 DVD on The Hour of Cruel Corpses with Paul Naschy . He spoke to film journalist Robert Zion for an audio commentary for the DVD release of Mario Bava's film Bloody Silk .

In 1998 he worked as a line producer on Jess Franco's film Tender Flesh . For the film Die Reise ins Glück by Wenzel Storch , Keßler received a script credit in 2004 for his work on the narrative text of the film. As a "film scholar" he regularly participates in events of the Buio Omega film club .

After many years in Gelsenkirchen , Keßler lives again in Bremen.

Works

  • Co-author of: Lucas Balbo, Peter Blumenstock, Christian Kessler: Obsession. The Films of Jess Franco Graf Haufen & Frank Trebbin, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-929234-05-X .
  • The wild eye. A foray through the Italian horror film Corian-Verlag, Meitingen 1997, ISBN 3-89048-311-9 .
  • Welcome to hell. The Italo-Western at a Glance Terrorverlag, [Gütersloh] 2002, ISBN 3-00-009290-0 .
  • The flowing canvas. The American hardcore film from 1970 to 1985 Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-927795-56-3 .
  • Worm parade on the zombie yard. Forty reasons to love trash films Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-927795-67-9 .
  • The smelting man in the morgue. Forty reasons to love trash films Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-927795-68-6 .
  • The hidden cinema. The best movies you've never heard of! Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-927795-74-7 .
  • End of the line goosebumps. A personal journey through the horror cinema Martin Schmitz Verlag, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-927795-82-2 .

Crime novels

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The running canvas ( Memento from December 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ). In: christiankessler.de, accessed on May 29, 2019 (Book Description).
  2. ^ The mysterious Biuo Omega film club. In: buio-omega.de, accessed on May 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Kessler, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film critic , author and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen