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"Wild Bill" Grefe, Bill Grefe, Death Curse of Tartu, Devils Sisters, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Impulse Shatner, Mako Jaws of Death, Stanley Code Red, Stanley snake, Sting of Death, third eye cinema podcast, William Grefe, William Shatner
Let’s kick this off with a confession: I’m not generally big on documentaries.
Sure, many directors over the years have cut their eyeteeth on them, and there are folks who live and breathe this stuff – I’ve even known people who claim to watch nothing but for weeks at a time. But they tend to be fairly dry affairs, sort of live action iterations of Wikipedia with a bunch of talking heads. It’s nice to see some of the actual parties in question speak their piece, but it’s always been more in the line of 15m extra packaged with a feature film than an end in and of itself.
Even so, I simply couldn’t resist tapping into They Came From the Swamp, a breezy documentary on the career of old favorite William “Wild Bill” Grefe directed by Daniel Griffith…particularly given a very special bonus feature included in the package.