Singapore Sling (1990 film)

Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse
Theatrical release poster
Singapore Sling: Ο Άνθρωπος που Αγάπησε ένα Πτώμα
Directed byNikos Nikolaidis
Written byNikos Nikolaidis
Produced byMarie-Louise Bartholomew
StarringMeredyth Herold
Panos Thanassoulis
Michele Valley
CinematographyAris Stavrou
Edited byAndreas Andreadakis
Music bySergei Rachmaninoff
Giaches de Wert
Glenn Miller
Julie London
Production
companies
Marni Film
Cinekip
Greek Film Center
Distributed byGreek Film Center
Release dates
Running time
111 minutes
CountryGreece
LanguagesEnglish
Greek
French

Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse (Greek: Singapore Sling: Ο Άνθρωπος που Αγάπησε ένα Πτώμα, tr. Singapore Sling: O Ánthropos pou Agápise éna Ptóma) is a 1990 Greek black and white horror underground art film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis and regarded as his magnum opus. Considered a difficult film to label while still managing to develop something of a cult following throughout the years nonetheless, it was shot in a bizarre manner somewhat resembling film noir or neo-noir and black comedy as well as the exploitation, thriller, and crime genres mixed with some elements of eroticism and horror with sex being used as a power game and received a theatrical release in Greece on 6 December 1990.[1][2]

Despite Nikolaidis' career as a film director in his home country which stretches to the early 1960s he was almost entirely unknown outside Greece before the early 1990s and is still less known outside it. It was only with this film, which has immediately achieved cult status, that international fame came to him and it probably still remains the film for which he is best known today,[3] as exemplified by the fact that it was released on DVD by Synapse Films, the only one of Nikolaidis' films to so far receive a home video release in North America. In March 2024, Vinegar Syndrome released the film on Blu-ray.[4] The film was officially selected for screening at the Rimini Film Festival.

  1. ^ Hardy, Phil, ed. (1995). The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Horror. Vol. 3. New York, New York: The Overlook Press. pp. 478–479. ISBN 0-87951-624-0.
  2. ^ "Review: Singapore Sling – A Man in Love with a Corpse". The Dreamin' Demon: Real Life Horror (Reviews: S). 25 August 2009. Retrieved 12 August 2013.
  3. ^ Rudd, Amy (22 June 2008). "Singapore Sling (18)". Metro. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  4. ^ "Singapore Sling". Vinegar Syndrome. Retrieved 21 March 2024.