The Quietus - A new rock music and pop culture website

Film Features

Bizarre Distractions: An Uncle Acid Cinematic Baker's Dozen
Mat Colegate , September 21st, 2015 11:06

With their new LP The Night Creeper out now, Mat Colegate talks to Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats singer Kevin Starrs about the horror and exploitation films that feed into the band's rich world of imagery and music

Damnation_alley_1442241520_resize_460x400


Damnation Alley (Jack Smight, 1977)

A low-budget post apocalyptic classic. Plenty of cheap-looking '70s visual effects. It's probably not a very well made film but I like it. Anything post apocalyptic will appeal to me. I can imagine making a post-apocalyptic Uncle Acid album one day. It's something that I've always been really into from when I was younger and growing up watching Mad Max – probably way before I should have been watching it – I've always been attracted to the idea of the lawless wasteland.