Film and Stage Gallery

Overview

Seeing the filming of many music promos and mixing with actresses and people working in the film industry whetted Eileen’s appetite for acting and strengthened her resolve to get into the film industry proper. Eileen always loved horror films and had wanted to star in them so when she started getting parts in a few independent horror films, it changed her focus on what she wanted to do at that time. It was around this time that she met Nigel Wingrove and together they started up a little company called Redemption Films the recognition she got from the Redemption work became the turning point of her career. Redemption Films used an image of Eileen as its company logo and this became part of its marketing strategy with Eileen featuring as Redemption's Dark Angel in specially filmed intros to the many foreign and cult films released on the label. Many of the films released featured Eileen acting out scenes from the film on their covers and this together with the consistent design of their packaging gave the company a strong identity and made the films collectable. She also featured on a range of Redemption merchandise as diverse as mugs, T-shirts, posters, prints and even pin badges. Redemption re-published the novelisation of the Hammer film Countess Dracula and a photo shoot featuring Eileen was set up to add a series of images to the book and to provide its cover image; the images were later sold as a limited edition photo set and Eileen was interviewed for Video World magazine at the time and a video of the interview was given away as a cover mount. Eileen was hoping at that time to work with French Director Jean Rollin, many of whose films were, in turn, marketed by Redemption Films, after meeting with him in Paris but it was sadly not to be. a similar fate befell a possible Betty Page film to be directed by Richard Driscoll originally scheduled for 2003 though she would work with him on both Kannibal and Darkness Calls The Raven.