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Penelope Spheeris: The Hollywood Killers

Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 18 January 1986

Director PENELOPE SPHEERIS has worked in music video and on Saturday Night Live and made the L.A. punk movie The Decline Of Western Civilisation. Her latest film, The Boys Next Door, concerns the American phenomenon of the serial murderer, and has encountered some distribution problems for being too violent. She talked to Paul Mathur about life and its artistic imitations

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