Highlights of his less than illustrious career in the press include a delightfully drunken interview with legendary director Ken Russell at London's exclusive St. James Club, getting drenched in fake blood on a Rome soundstage during the filming of H. P. Lovecraft's FROM BEYOND, and witnessing the first appearance of the Cenobites during the shooting of the original HELLRAISER. As British Correspondent for FANGORIA, he was the first reporter to interview Clive Barker for a national American magazine and readily cites Barker as a major influence on his writing fiction.
"Clive was the first successful published author I met who took a serious interest in my initial fumbling attempts at fiction, and who gave me an enormous amount of advice and encouragement. He really was a mentor at the time I needed one the most," Nutman acknowledges.
Within a year of leaving the BBC, Nutman sold his first professional short story to editors John Skipp and Craig Spector for their groundbreaking anthology BOOK OF THE DEAD. The following year he sold an expanded novel version of that story - WET WORK - to Putnam Berkley, achieving the highly unusual feat of selling a first novel on the basis of a 16-page outline with no chapters written, and at the age of 26 no less (and is now available in a new, definitive, author-preferred trade paperback).
Further short stories followed in quick succession in such highly acclaimed anthologies as BORDERLANDS 2 and SPLATTERPUNKS. The latter featured the novella Full Throttle, which garnered his first nomination for a Bram Stoker Award by the Horror Writers of America. Three further nominations followed over the next few years, two of which as a finalist (Superior Achievement in a First Novel and Best Short Story). Full Throttle and Churches Of Desire (BORDERLANDS 2) , were chosen by the late author and editor Karl Edward Wagner, for inclusion in THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES XIX and XX (1991 and 1992 respectively).
Beyond prose fiction, Philip Nutman also has written and edited 50-plus comic books and over a dozen screenplays, several of which have been optioned by different producers. In 2003, he was hired by Gryphon Films (producers of the Oscar-nominated feature THE COOLER) to adapt the bestselling adventure-thriller novel THUNDERHEAD (penned by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child of THE RELIC fame) into a big budget studio script. In 2004-05 he wrote three projects for Sunwood Entertainment – THE LAST BLOOD, HELL’S BELLE, and SHIVER. The latter was filmed in Atlanta in August/September 2005 with Phil at the helm as producer (although he subsequently removed his name from the project after having creative differences with the so-called director [who shall remain nameless]; to date the film remains unfinished after Phil left the project and seems unlikely to ever see the light of day).
Most recently, in 2006, producers Andrew van den Houten and William M. Miller of Modercine made good on their option to film JACK KETCHUM’S THE GIRL NEXT DOOR, a screenplay adaptation Phil had co-written with LA-based writer Daniel Farrands (HALLOWEEN 6: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS), seven years earlier. This film is currently screening theatrically in New York City and will be released on DVD in early December. Farrands & Nutman also acted as associate producers on the film.
Widely regarded as an expert on fantastic fiction and film, he has lectured at The School of Visual Arts, in New York City, Roger Williams University, R.I., Dusquesne University, Pittsburgh, P.A. and several high schools.
He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia but now spends an increasing amount of time in Los Angeles, California, and is at work on numerous publishing, film and TV projects – including an adaptation of another Jack Ketchum book, the highly praised noir western, THE CROSSINGS, which Phil plans to produce and direct in Fall 2008.
For more information, please visit www.PhilipNutman.com
JACK KETCHUM’S THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
"The first authentically shocking American film I've seen since HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER over 20 years ago. If you are easily disturbed, you should not watch this movie. If, on the other hand, you are prepared for a long look into hell, suburban style, [JACK KETCHUM’S] THE GIRL NEXT DOOR will not disappoint. This is the dark-side-of-the-moon version of STAND BY ME.”
"…and this is why this film will be remembered. I anticipate a chain of Chinese whispers according this a deserved notoriety, assuring JACK KETCHUM’S THE GIRL NEXT DOOR a special place in film history alongside such shocking and cautionary works as PEEPING TOM, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE, and 10 RILLINGTON PLACE. Like all of these films, 'The Girl Next Door' is profoundly disturbing, not for its visceral content, but for the psychological implications of its characters' actions."
JACK KETCHUM'S THE GIRL NEXT DOOR
Starring Blanche Baker (HOLOCAUST; Carol Baker's daughter), Blythe Auffarth (LAW & ORDER), Daniel Manche (Broadway's young Tarzan in the Disney musical), William Atherton, Catherine Mary Stewart, Grant Show.
Screenplay by Daniel Farrands & Philip Nutman, based on the cult novel by Jack Ketchum
Produced by Andrew van den Houten and William M. Miller (HEADSPACE)
Associate Producers Philip Nutman & Daniel Farrands
Music composed and conducted by Ryan Shore
Directed by Gregory M. Wilson
Official site: www.thegirlnextdoorfilm.com
MySpace: www.MySpace.com/thegirlnextdoormovie
JACK KETCHUM’S THE GIRL NEXT DOOR is screening exclusively at The Two Boots Pioneer theatre in the East Village, October 3 – 16 (www.twoboots.com )
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