Backyard Bloodbath

Notes on Jim Van Bebber's 1988 'Deadbeat at Dawn.'

The following is the text of a lecture I gave in Antwerp, Belgium on July 8, 2019, on the subject of independent American genre filmmaking generally and about Jim Van Bebber’s 1988 film Deadbeat at Dawn specifically. This was done as part of the annual Zomer Film College series, a long-running screening and lecture series in Antwerp that I participated …