Chemical Wedding - The Movie

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  1. clive Prowler

    Hi guys

    Don't get on here often but just had this info come through at work. Thought it might be of interest - sorry if it's old news to you all!

    O.S.T. CHEMICAL WEDDING WARNER MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT/CINRAM
    CD 5144283812 5051 4428 3812 1
    RELEASED: 26.05.08
    TRACKLISTING: 1 Chemical Wedding - Bruce Dickinson, 2 Hush Hush Here Comes The Bogie Man - Henry Hall / Val Rosing, 3 Fanlight Fanny - George Formby, 4 Man Of Sorrows - Bruce Dickinson, 5 Wickerman - Iron Maiden,
    6 Can I Play With Madness - Iron Maiden, 7 Separation - Skin, 8 Une Faune Apres Midi - Debussy,
    9 The Hallelujah Chorus - Handel, 10 (Excerpt) Violin Concerto - Mozart,
    OVERVIEW: Chemical Wedding is a feature film written by Iron Maiden front-man, Bruce Dickinson and long term Monty Python editor, Julian Doyle, who also directed the film. The film is a gothic sci-fi extravaganza set in Trinity College Cambridge, where a scientific experiment goes awry resulting in the resurrection of the infamous Edwardian Occultist Aleister Crowley, who was immortalised into pop culture by the likes of The Beatles, Jimmy Page and Ozzy Osborne. The soundtrack will be released on May 19th, the week of the theatrical release of the film on 20 screens nationwide. The soundtrack contains 2 Iron Maiden tracks and 2 tracks from Bruce Dickinson solo albums. The remaining tracks are a mix of classical, score and some period songs. Tracks will be interspersed with dialogue clips from the movie.
    PRESS: The soundtrack will be featured on all advertising for the film release, which will include National & regional press, listings mags, music magazines & outdoor poster sites
    MARKETING: The CD will be mentioned alongside all publicity for the film release.
  2. Forostar There's more to it than meets the eye...

    Exclusive dialogue clips from the soundtrack have been posted online at this location.
  3. Forostar There's more to it than meets the eye...

    Watch video footage of Dickinson in Cannes promoting the "Chemical Wedding" movie courtesy of BBC News.
    Link (funny!)

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    Rock star Bruce Dickinson flies in to bring a touch of Satan to the Croisette

    Andrew Pulver / Monday May 19, 2008 / The Guardian

    Metal god, actor, novelist, swordsman, pilot, DJ - and now screenwriter. Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson is a man of many parts, and this weekend he showed up in Cannes to show off a new film called Chemical Wedding. Dickinson, a registered commercial airline pilot, flew himself to the south of France, along with a bunch of journalists, fans, and suitably attired hangers-on (they carried tote bags bearing the legend "Bruce Air Flight 666").

    There's something very Iron Maiden about Wedding, dabbling as it does in the occult world of early-20th-century mystic Aleister Crowley, finding several excuses to liberate young women from their clothes, and incorporating dialogue that sounds as if it was lifted from the Number of the Beast's lyric sheet. It would all be too ridiculous if Dickinson were not such a nice, unassuming chap - the 49-year-old product of a minor public school with a penchant for satanic imagery.
    When Dickinson sits down with Chemical Wedding director Julian Doyle (a veteran of Iron Maiden videos and Terry Gilliam's editing room) the pair clearly get on like a house on fire. Dickinson says Chemical Wedding has been in the works for 15 years, having passed through a number of producers; in the end, he got the thing off the ground himself.

    "I started getting into Aleister Crowley when I was 15," he says. "He was the first rock star." He adds that Chemical Wedding is "Withnail & I meets The Wicker Man", which must have sounded good in those pitch meetings.

    Without Dickinson, Chemical Wedding would have remained one of the submerged nine-tenths of gunk films clogging up the Cannes film market. Hampered by ropey performances, it never reaches the levels of weirdness and humour it is aiming at. But Dickinson, game as ever, can't resist a final, harmless blasphemy: "We bring Crowley back for three days. Like Christ. Only better." Get your devil-horn salute ready now.
  4. Forostar There's more to it than meets the eye...

    Tracklist revealed of the soundtrack.

    Source:

    Bruce Dickinson Chemical Wedding OST

    Tracklisting
    1. CHEMICAL WEDDING - BRUCE DICKINSON
    2. MEET THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD - GEOFF BRETON & SEAN REA
    3. HUSH, HUSH, HUSH, HERE COMES THE BOGEY MAN (REMASTERED) - HENRY HALL
    4. YOUNG SYMONDS & YOUNG ALEX MEET CROWLEY - GEOFF BRETON, SEAN REA & JOHN SHRAPNEL
    5. 50 YEARS I KEPT HIS WATCH - PAUL MCDOWELL
    6. THE SUIT REVEALED (Score)
    7. THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES ON - THOMAS NELSTROP
    8. MATHERS’ DREAM (Score)
    9. SEXUAL MAGIC - SIMON CALLOW & JUD CHARLTON
    10. AN ENCOUNTER WITH HIM - SIMON CALLOW & JUD CHARLTON
    11. LIA MEETS MATHERS (Score)
    12. SYMONDS INTRODUCES DR OLIVER HADDO - PAUL MCDOWELL
    13. MESSIAH : PART 2 "HALLELUJAH" - HANDEL
    14. HADDO'S LECTURE (Dialogue) - SIMON CALLOW
    15. SYMPHONY NO.40 IN G MINOR K550 : I MOLTO ALLEGRO - MOZART
    16. HADDO'S EXPLANATION - SIMON CALLOW, RICHARD FRANKLIN & ROBERT ASHBY
    17. THOSE COCKLESS WINDERS - SIMON CALLOW & LUCY CUDDEN
    18. WHO IS IT YOU THINK I AM - SIMON CALLOW & JUD CHARLTON
    19. CAN I PLAY WITH MADNESS - IRON MAIDEN
    20. PROFESSOR IN SUIT THE JOURNEY - KAL WEBBER, JUD CHARLTON, TERRENCE BAYLER & JAMIE LISA JACQUEMIN
    21. EVERY MAN & WOMAN IS A STAR - SIMON CALLOW
    22. FANLIGHT FANNY - GEORGE FORMBY
    23. HADDO VISITS THE MYSTIC SHOP - SIMON CALLOW & LILLY DUMONT
    24. THE GHOST IN THE MACHINE – JUD CHARLTON & LUCY CUDDEN
    25. SIP THE WINE - THE CEREMONY – NATASHA FORD
    26. SPARE SOME CHANGE – KARE SILVERSTEN
    27. THE WICKER MAN - IRON MAIDEN
    28. SEPERATION BY SKIN (Alchemical Mix) - EARTH LAB
    29. SHE’S THINKING OF ME - SIMON CALLOW & JUD CHARLTON
    30. PRODUCING A MOONCHILD – MIKE SHANNON & PAUL MCDOWELL
    31. BEHOLD THE PLACE I HAVE LED YOU - SIMON CALLOW
    32. HYPNOTIZING BRENT - PAUL MCDOWELL, TERRENCE BAYLER & KAL WEBER
    33. THE CURIOUS CAT COMES WILLINGLY - SIMON CALLOW
    34. HE WAS NEVER A CARPENTER - PAUL MCDOWELL & KAL WEBER
    35. MATHERS ENTERS THE SUIT - PAUL MCDOWELL & KAL WEBER
    36. TIME AFTER ALL IS ONLY RELATIVE - SIMON CALLOW
    37. WHERE’S THE DOOR - KAL WEBER & JAMIE LISA JACQUEMIN
    38. HOLY UNION (Dialogue & Score) - SIMON CALLOW
    39. THE LAST FIGHT (Score)
    40. PRÉLUDE À L'APRÈS-MIDI D'UN FAUNE - DEBUSSY
    41. FELT OUT OF PLACE (Dialogue) - MIKE SHANNON & PAUL MCDOWELL
    42. MAN OF SORROWS - BRUCE DICKINSON

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  5. Forostar There's more to it than meets the eye...

    Anyone has seen the film yet? I haven't. Here some good news:

    Chemical Wedding (aka Crowley) was voted top film at the Athens Intl. Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival. 

    It has also been short listed in the top 4 for the forthcoming Amsterdam Film Festival.
  6. Ardius Trooper

    I've actually got it on DVD, managed to find it for £2 in Zavvi before they started closing down, still haven't watched it though, lol. I've had too many things to watch at the moment.
  7. national acrobat Ancient Mariner

    I saw it when it came out, and it's really pretty good.
  8. SneakySneaky Prowler

    I've also seen it,  but I thought is was awful with some rather sick humor.  Not my style,  and a couple of friends who watched without knowing anything about Dickinson being involved in it, had even worse things to say.
  9. GhostofCain Prowler

    I have it on DVD, watched it recently and got what I was expecting: a B side horror movie with a Hammer feel. I give it 6/10 irrespective of Bruce's input as I would have given it 6/10 without his involvement too.

    As expected, Crowley's bits were well documented and Simon Callow did one hell of a job as Crowley.
  10. LooseCannon Captain of the USS Enterprise

    Well, I finally saw it. I was expecting it to be truly horrible. It wasn't. It was only bad.

    There was some really great IDEAS in the movie. But I think Bruce needed someone to go over the screenplay, or perhaps a better director to work with it. The execution in more than one place was failing.

    The worst part was the constant attempt to make you think that Crowley's resurrection was scientifically possible. Unfortunately, Bruce just doesn't have the background to write this part convincingly. As a result, it sounded like Star Trek technobabble with real principles. Heisenburg's uncertainty principle was used as the real basis for this explanation, but what they wanted was more of a Schrodinger's Cat.

    Yet I hadn't come to the final conclusion on what the story was until the end. So...not a great film, but I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Simon Callow was great - the rest of the acting quite poor.

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