Alex Chandon
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Alexis Chandon is a film director, writer and digital artist.

Directing career

His early films, Drillbit
Drillbit (film)
Drillbit is a low-budget short horror film directed by Alex Chandon and stars Ben Befell, Tom Cox and Saul Brignell.-Plot:An employee detects a pharmaceutical company's sinister plan within the executive office, he will be wiped out and his entire family...

and Bad Karma featured many musicians from the UK anarcho punk scene, notably Ben Bethell, Dan MacCintyre, William 'Bill' Corbett
William 'Bill' Corbett
William 'Bill' Corbett is a musician, historian, disc jockey and photographer who lives in London, England.Corbett was one of the founding members of The Apostles, an anarcho-punk band that formed in Hackney in 1979...

 and Julian Portinari from, The Apostles
The Apostles
The Apostles are an experimental punk rock band who developed within the confines of the 1980s Anarcho Punk scene in the UK, but did not necessarily adhere to the aesthetics of that movement.-History:...

 and Pallor
Pallor
Pallor is a reduced amount of oxyhaemoglobin in skin or mucous membrane, a pale color which can be caused by illness, emotional shock or stress, stimulant use, lack of exposure to sunlight, anaemia or genetics....

, respectively.

Cradle of Fear

His highest-profile release to date is Cradle of Fear
Cradle of Fear
Cradle of Fear is a 2001 horror film directed by Alex Chandon. Taking inspiration from the portmanteau films produced by Amicus in the 1970s it features three separate half-hour segments, linked by a fourth story. The main narrative involves imprisoned serial-killer Kemper wreaking vengeance on...

, starring Dani Filth
Dani Filth
Dani Filth is the lyricist, vocalist and founding member of the metal band Cradle of Filth.-Personal life:...

 in a leading role, and other members of Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

 in cameo appearance
Cameo appearance
A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...

s.

Borderline

Chandon was once known primarily for specialising in straight-to-video micro-budget horror films, but his latest projects, especially Borderline (2006), featuring music by The Dark Poets
The Dark Poets
Dubbed "Drum and Bass for Goths" The Dark Poets are an electronic [Rock]/breakbeat outfit from the UK.-Background:The Dark Poets originally rose to prominence with their soundtrack for Alex Chandon's cult Cradle of Filth horror movie 'Cradle of Fear'. - Which gained the attention of Some Bizzare...

, show a more mature side to his work. Borderline has now been chosen for the British Film Institute's National Archive.

Inbred

Chandon will direct the £1,000,000 project Inbred, which will shoot in July 2010 in the market town of Thirsk
Thirsk
Thirsk is a small market town and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. The local travel links are located a mile from the town centre to Thirsk railway station and to Durham Tees Valley Airport...

. The script for the Black comedy horror film was co-written by Paul Shrimpton.

Music videos

Chandon's relationship with Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

 has also produced video clips for the songs "From the Cradle to Enslave
PanDaemonAeon
PanDaemonAeon is a DVD by extreme metal band Cradle of Filth, originally released on VHS in 1999, and surfacing on disc in 2002. It is primarily a showcase for the band's first ever promo video for the song From the Cradle to Enslave, taken from the EP of the same name...

", "No Time to Cry" and "Her Ghost in the Fog", as well as documentaries on their DVDs PanDaemonAeon
PanDaemonAeon
PanDaemonAeon is a DVD by extreme metal band Cradle of Filth, originally released on VHS in 1999, and surfacing on disc in 2002. It is primarily a showcase for the band's first ever promo video for the song From the Cradle to Enslave, taken from the EP of the same name...

and Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid
Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid
Heavy, Left-Handed and Candid is a DVD release by Cradle of Filth, from the 2001 Midian Tour. Eleven Burial Masses was filmed at Nottingham Rock City on April 14, 2001. The live album Live Bait for the Dead contains the same concert. The later release Eleven Burial Masses contains both the CD and...

.

Filmography

Year Film Credited as
Director
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

Producer
Film producer
A film producer oversees and delivers a film project to all relevant parties while preserving the integrity, voice and vision of the film. They will also often take on some financial risk by using their own money, especially during the pre-production period, before a film is fully financed.The...

Writer
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...

Actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

Editor Cinematography
Cinematography
Cinematography is the making of lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for cinema. It is closely related to the art of still photography...

Role
1982 Nightmare
1988 Chainsaw Scumfuck
Chainsaw Scumfuck
Chainsaw Scumfuck is a low-budget hypertrash short horror film directed by Alex Chandon.-Plot:A madman breaks into a house with an chainsaw and kills a group of teenagers. It was inspired by The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.-Relese:...

1989 Bad Manor
1991 Bad Karma Shape Shifter
1992 Drillbit
Drillbit (film)
Drillbit is a low-budget short horror film directed by Alex Chandon and stars Ben Befell, Tom Cox and Saul Brignell.-Plot:An employee detects a pharmaceutical company's sinister plan within the executive office, he will be wiped out and his entire family...

1997 Night Pastor
Night Pastor
Night Pastor is a short horror film directed by Alex Chandon and stars Neil Keenan and Matt Russel.-Plot:The Night Pastor, a Jesus blending, prevails in the city by force of law and order! The long-haired priest, with God's blessing and lead-based arguments going against the prevailing sins of his...

Pervirella
Pervirella
Pervirella is a 1997 Adventure-Comedy film which was directed by Alex Chandon, the film stars Emily Booth in the lead role and featured brief cameos from Jonathan Ross and Mark Lamarr.Pervirella harbors a sex demon within her.-Plot:...

Savage Dynamite
1998 Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels is a 1998 British crime film directed and written by Guy Ritchie. The story is a heist film involving a self-confident young card sharp who loses £500,000 to a powerful crime lord in a rigged game of three card brag...

Art Department
Cradle of Filth: Pandaemonaeon
PanDaemonAeon
PanDaemonAeon is a DVD by extreme metal band Cradle of Filth, originally released on VHS in 1999, and surfacing on disc in 2002. It is primarily a showcase for the band's first ever promo video for the song From the Cradle to Enslave, taken from the EP of the same name...

Co-Director
Siamese Cop
Witchcraft X: Mistress of the Craft Agent Roberts
2000 Peaches Storyboards
2001 Cradle of Fear
Cradle of Fear
Cradle of Fear is a 2001 horror film directed by Alex Chandon. Taking inspiration from the portmanteau films produced by Amicus in the 1970s it features three separate half-hour segments, linked by a fourth story. The main narrative involves imprisoned serial-killer Kemper wreaking vengeance on...

2003 The Sick Room
2005 BV-01 Voice-Over
2006 Borderline
2007 Gerry Judah
Slash Hive Digital FX
2008 The Bill
The Bill
The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...

Digital FX
Neon Killer Digital FX
Comedy Lab - Peter Slater Digital FX
2010 Inbred
Inbred (film)
Inbred is a 2011 horror film directed by Alex Chandon and co-written with Paul Shrimpton.-Plot:Youth offenders sentenced to community service with their supervisors are taken out into the countryside to a remote Yorkshire village...


Musicvideos

Year Title
1999 "From the Cradle to Enslave
From the Cradle to Enslave
From the Cradle to Enslave is an EP by Cradle of Filth. It contains two original tracks; the title track and "Of Dark Blood and Fucking". The rest of the disc consists of two cover versions and a re-recording of a track from the album Dusk... and Her Embrace...

" by Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

2000 "Her Ghost in the Fog" by Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

2001 "Born in a Burial Gown" by Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

"No Time to Cry" by Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

"Scorched Earth Erotica" by Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

2007 "Insect" by Mainstream Distortion
2008 "KONFAB" by Runonsentence
"Batcat" by Mogwai
Mogwai
The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 meaning "monster", "evil spirit", "devil" or "demon".-Mogwai/Mogui in Chinese culture:...

2010 "Its So Cold" by The Dark Poets
The Dark Poets
Dubbed "Drum and Bass for Goths" The Dark Poets are an electronic [Rock]/breakbeat outfit from the UK.-Background:The Dark Poets originally rose to prominence with their soundtrack for Alex Chandon's cult Cradle of Filth horror movie 'Cradle of Fear'. - Which gained the attention of Some Bizzare...

"Endless Zoom" by The Dark Poets
The Dark Poets
Dubbed "Drum and Bass for Goths" The Dark Poets are an electronic [Rock]/breakbeat outfit from the UK.-Background:The Dark Poets originally rose to prominence with their soundtrack for Alex Chandon's cult Cradle of Filth horror movie 'Cradle of Fear'. - Which gained the attention of Some Bizzare...

"Sarah's Tribute to Oscar Wilde" by The Dark Poets
The Dark Poets
Dubbed "Drum and Bass for Goths" The Dark Poets are an electronic [Rock]/breakbeat outfit from the UK.-Background:The Dark Poets originally rose to prominence with their soundtrack for Alex Chandon's cult Cradle of Filth horror movie 'Cradle of Fear'. - Which gained the attention of Some Bizzare...


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