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David McGillivray (b. September 7, 1947) was born in London. Like David Pirie, Anne Billson and Kim Newman, he began his career reviewing exploitation movies for the British Film Institute’s Monthly Film Bulletin. During the 1970s, he scripted sleazy British films for directors Pete Walker (House of Whipcord, Frightmare, House of Mortal Sin, Schizo) and Norman J. Warren (Satan’s Slave, Terror), plus ventures into the even murkier world of the British sex film – the ultimately sexless White Cargo, starring David Jason, The Hot Girls and the memorably-titled I’m Not Feeling Myself Tonight – which eventually led to a definitive book (and television documentary) on the subject, Doing Rude Things: The History of the British Sex Film, 1957-1981. As an actor, he can be glimpsed in most of his films – usually wearing noteworthy 1970s shirts, although he appears in clerical garb for the witch-whipping flashback in Satan’s Slave – and also the short Can I Come Too? He also wrote the Norwegian psycho intruders-vs.-mad magician movie Turnaround and has worked extensively on stage and television. His serial autobiography, Spawn of Tarantula!, appeared in three parts in Stefan Jaworzyn’s Shock Xpress and Shock compilations from Titan Books.