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Now It's Alice On Film

ALICE Cooper's Welcome To My Nigbtmare, is to be made into a feature film and shown in cinemas. His live show was filmed when he played London.

Production is to be speeded up so that the film can be premiered in 17 Canadian cinemas on November 28.

Alice is reported to expect £125,000 from his part of the film, which is co-produced by director David Winter.

Finishing touches to the film were done at Shepperton Studios. There was 60,000 feet of film shot at the live shows, from 10 cameras placed around the arena.

Said David Winter: "Alice and I had been wanting to do this sort of thing for two years."

The soundtrack of the film, recorded at the shows with a 24 track mobile recording unit, will be released later in the year.

Alice Cooper / Empire Pool Wembley

Author: Jan Iles

It was like being a kid again and getting flung into a bittersweet, kneeze­knocking make-believe world, where ghouls, Punch and Judy characters and a giant Cyclops sprung to life and fought the picture book hero; in this case Stephen, portrayed by master of creep, Alice Cooper. Coop presented his bumper­bundle 400,000 dollar Nightmare show to his British fans who were knocked - off - their behinds rather than shocked - outta - their - minds by his slick theatrics.

For a nightmare show it wasn't at all scary — I've seen more blood­curdling sequences between Noddy and Big Ears — but mother it wasn't half entertaining. The whole show was timed perfectly, right down to the last hole in Alice's red tights.

Coop's backing band were superb; giving tile music full-bellied credibility. It's a pity the stars of the show were hidden at the back of the stage.

Alice sure does work with a lot of talented folk, many of whom could knock cock hats out of "Come Dancing" dabblers. The scene with the dancers dressed as Skeletons was straight out of vaudeville.

The deluxe part of the show, however, was the film sequence. On centre stage was a massive vertigo screen on which was filmed Alice hacking at his tombstone. Meanwhile the real Alice was waiting behind the vertical strip screen ready to synchronize with the film. As Alice on screen ran towards the audience, the real Alice jumped through the backdrop to appear as though he was stepping out of the film.

While watching the show it became apparent Alice set out to do one thing: entertain. He didn't preach any messages or knock 'em cold with musical brilliance. He made sure his audience had a ball of a time.

(Originally published in Record Mirror & Disc - September 20th, 1975)