This story was originally published on The Spinoff.
Filmmaker Costa Botes has died, but his mockumentary Forgotten Silver lives on. Ian Pryor reflects on what makes the film so unforgettable.
On the set of TV show Worzel Gummidge Down Under, Costa Botes met a filmmaker who was even more unknown than he was. That filmmaker was Peter Jackson; Botes would later write that he had an ugly cardigan and a bad stammer. Jackson invited Botes to play one of the victims in his first feature, Bad Taste. Botes got to choose between death by chainsaw or being torn in two by a car.
