Devil dog Shuck returns.mp4

Director: Paul TT Easter
Writer: Paul TT Easter
Producer: Paul TT Easter
Cast: Paul TT Easter, Lesley Easter
Country: UK
Year of release: 2016




Not to put too fine a point on it, Devil Dog Shuck Returns is one of the most bizarre, distinctive, subversive, idiosyncratic, clinically insane slices of avant-garde cinema that has ever troubled my eyeballs. It really is like nothing that I have ever seen. Are all of Easter’s films like this? Jesus Christ!

For ninety minutes I wondered: “What the hell is this I’m watching?” But not in a bad way. This is an eye-opening film, not an eye-watering one. On the basis of this movie, I would venture to suggest that Paul TT Easter is one of those underground British auteurs, like Joe Wheeler or Tom Rutter, whose work will be rediscovered 20 or 30 years from now and hailed as pure cult cinema. Or, looked at another way, if Paul Easter had been making films like this back in the 1970s, there would be books about him by now and festival retrospectives of his career.