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The Devils

14 February 2024

This 1971 entry from the controversial British film director Ken Russell is an intense, visual experience and as with most of his “biographical” films, the actual facts and history get a liberal dose of interpretation, heightening and twisting the original, key elements into an over-the-top, spectacle of a story.

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A Zed & Two Noughts

6 March 2019

Drama, black comedy, art film or body horror? Or a bit of each? Greenaway’s second major film A Zed & Two Noughts is possibly the most abstract of the bunch from this period and not without a lot of lush visual detail.

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The Servant

14 January 2019

The Servant (1963) packs a lot of social commentary, observations on British society at the time, good dialogue and some great cinematography.

Billy The Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

Billy The Kid and the Green Baize Vampire

10 October 2017

So… a camp, stylized 80s musical film about a snooker match of which one of the players is a vampire you say? Billy The Kid and the Baize Green Vampire — the name alone draws up a lot of curiousity and that’s pretty much how I got around to watching it.

Afraid Of The Dark | Masthead

Afraid Of The Dark & Paperhouse

20 July 2017

Common themes, aesthetics and ideas run between these two films, released around the same time period, involving children battling the fine lines between reality, dreams and nightmares.

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The Shout

8 December 2014

The Shout is an atmospheric 1978 film into a category I call “British folk horror”, soundtracked by Tony Banks of Genesis.

It Happened Here 1 | Still 1

It Happened Here

13 September 2011

A 60s British film that asks “what if Hitler took over Great Britain in WWII?”