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This site is in not an affiliation of MalleuS but is an independent critique site created by Josie Kogge, who is in no way associated with MalleuS or their productions.
Last updated 6th August 2001
With his feature film project shelved, Andrew went back to making little movies purely for his own amusement and that of his friends - but now assisted by the group of like-minded artists he had met during work on The Wrath of Frankenstein. Among those made were;
Flash Gordno - a spoof on Flash Gordon using clay puppets and model rockets. Made entirely by Andrew, it was edited tape-to-tape.
Attack of the Fuckin' Massive Robot - another sci-fi spoof shot by Andrew and edited by Morris-Henshaw using his newly aquired PC and MGI videowave.
Manson Remembers - a short dialogue piece penned by D. Robertson Cane and performed by Morris-Henshaw in which Charles Manson protests his innocence to an unseen-on-camera guard in his cell.
The Lonely Death of Count Moggie the Vampyr - another dialogue based 'one room, one actor, one camera' piece in which a modern vampire, played by Morris-Henshaw, agonises over "The grinding wheels of eternity" and how awful immortality is, before throwing open the curtains of his bedsit and dying and agonising and lonely death in the glorious sunlight. This was shot by Andrew Morris at his home, and edited on the PC by Morris-Henshaw who used a morph programme to achieve the rotting of the vampire.
Morris-Henshaw was now adept with his new PC and had internet access. Domain names were going free and so he bagged www.malleus.co.uk - the first MALLEUS of any type to be registered as a domain. Explains Morris-Henshaw,
I could have gone with dot-com, but we're not remotely comercial. We are however British and in good company - so dot-co-dot-uk seemed appropriate.
He went on to build the Malleus website, reporting cheifly on The Wrath of Frankenstein - which at the time seemed a probable project to return to.
The website went online because we all felt that shooting on WRATH would recommence very soon, so we used it as a means of publicising our work. We hoped to sell the video online once it was complete.
To fill the site he also reported on the sundry other small projects on which he had worked - and among them he included screen-grabs from The Lonely Death of Count Moggie the Vampyr.
It was those six grabs that fired peoples' imagination. I posted the grabs and my e-mail went nuts! Malleus was getting only about ten hits a day - but on average three of those ten mailed me asking if it would be possible to see the Vampire movie in full as a downloadble MPEG or similar.
Well, I had to let Andrew know that his little Lonely Death movie was in demand!
Andrew was however unhappy with the idea of the public at large seeing Count Moggie, he felt it was created purely as a practice piece for MalleuS to hone their skills as performers, directors and editors. After some cohersion from Morris-Henshaw and Ruth Elizabeth, Andrew announced he had reworked the script for The Lonely Death of Count Moggie the Vampyr and felt it could be shot as a 20 minute featurette with the intention of making it available free to download from The MalleuS HomepagE. He gave the reworked script the less flippant title of Looking for Gatri...
