FRIGHTFEST LONDON

A BLIND BARGAIN

WORLD PREMIERE - Discovery SCREEN Two

Director: Paul Bunnell. Stars: Crispin Glover, Jake Horowitz, Lucy Loken, Annalisa Cochrane. USA 2025. 95 mins. 

In 1922, after an extended battle with the censors over its doctors creating artificial life and attempting to play God subject matter, Goldwyn Pictures released the silent horror A BLIND BARGAIN, starring the legendary Lon Chaney. But like Chaney’s LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT,  it became a lost film when MGM destroyed the original negatives after taking over the company. Now, director Paul Bunnell reimagines the classic shocker like a 1970s episode of Rod Serling’s ‘Night Gallery’, in which a desperate young man strikes a dark deal with an unhinged doctor, offering his mother as a subject for the physician's twisted experiments.