Singapore Sling (1990 film)

Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse
Theatrical release poster
Singapore Sling: Ο Άνθρωπος που Αγάπησε ένα Πτώμα
Directed by	Nikos Nikolaidis
Produced by	Marie-Louise Bartholomew
Written by	Nikos Nikolaidis
Starring	Meredyth Herold Panos Thanassoulis Michele Valley
Music by	Sergei Rachmaninoff Giaches de Wert Glenn Miller Julie London
Cinematography	Aris Stavrou
Edited by	Andreas Andreadakis
Production company	Marni Film Cinekip Greek Film Center
Distributed by	Greek Film Center
Release date	13 September 1990 (Toronto International Film Festival) October 1990 (Thessaloniki Festival of Greek Cinema)
Running time	111 Minutes
Country	Greece
Language	English Greek French

Singapore Sling: The Man Who Loved a Corpse (Greek: Singapore Sling: Ο Άνθρωπος που Αγάπησε ένα Πτώμα, tr. Singapore Sling: O Anthropos pou Agapise ena Ptoma) is a 1990 Greek black and white dramatic experimental independent underground art film directed by Nikos Nikolaidis and regarded as his magnum opus. Considered a difficult film to label while still managing to develop something of a cult following throughout the years nonetheless, it was shot in a bizarre manner somewhat resembling film noir or neo-noir and black comedy as well as the exploitation, thriller, and crime genres mixed with some elements of eroticism and horror with sex being used as a power game and received a theatrical release in Greece on 6 December 1990. Despite Nikolaidis' career as a film director in his home country which stretches to the early 1960s he was almost entirely unknown outside Greece before the early 1990s and is still less known outside it and it was only with this film, which has immediately achieved cult status, that international fame came to him and it probably still remans the film for which he is best known today, as exemplified by the fact that it was released on DVD by Synapse Films, the only one of Nikolaidis' films to so far receive a home video release in North America. The film was officially selected for screening at the Rimini Film Festival.