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Writer-director Gee Malik Linton has disowned this drama about a woman who sees angels, and it’s easy to see why

In the mid-90s, the director Donald Cammell disowned his final film Wild Side after producers at Nu Image recut it as an embarrassingly sleazy lesbian erotic thriller. After the director’s death, the screenwriter China Kong and the editor Frank Mazzola reconstructed Cammell’s original vision and the result was a revelation – a film that bore little or no relation to the producers’ bastardised incarnation. The same may (or may not?) be true of the Jamaican-American writer-director Gee Malik Linton’s debut feature Daughter of God, which surfaces here in a shambolic Lionsgate-approved version under the new title Exposed, with directorial chores now pseudonymously credited to “Declan Dale”.

Originally envisaged as a surreal, bilingual sociopolitical drama centring on a Latina woman (Ana de Armas) who believes that she’s been visited by angels,...

For the first time ever, Donald Cammell’s obscure 1987 serial killer thriller White of the Eye is available on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States (the UK arm of Arrow Video brandished its own striking package of the title in early 2014). Director of only four features, including his iconic 1970 debut Performance (co-directed by Nicolas Roeg), Cammell’s quartet of features were all labors of love, the filmmaker undergoing significant set backs on each project up until his death following 1995’s Wild Side.

With seven to ten years in-between each outing, this feature marked the end of a decade long hiatus following 1977’s adaptation of the Dean Koontz novel Demon Seed starring Julie Christie. Adapting from an obscure novel by brothers Laurence and Andrew Klavan (a notable writer of mystery thrillers) writing under the pseudonym Margaret Tracy, Cammell’s wife and actress China Kong co-wrote the screenplay. With his experience...

Stars: David Keith, Cathy Moriarty, Alan Rosenberg, Art Evans, Michael Greene, Danielle Smith, Alberta Watson, William G. Schilling, David Chow, Pamela Guest, Marc Hayashi, Mimi Lieber | Written by Donald Cammell, China Kong | Directed by Donald Cammell

Arrow Video are good at finding the cult movies that although sometimes obscure always deserve to be watched. White of the Eye is a release that fits into this criteria, for the most part it would be just another average serial killer movie until Donald Cammell adds some style to it. With a hint of mysticism and an artistic touch White of the Eye is a unique mystery that although flawed is well worth the experience.

Taking place in an isolated desert community a sound expert Paul White (David Keith) finds himself a suspect in the killings of some of the local suburban housewives. Trying to prove his innocence, memories from the past are...