Table of Contents
Contributor Notes iv
Foreword John Krish vi
Introduction As Seen on TV-The Cinema of Low Expectations 1
Introduction to the Second Edition 5
Loose Canons Celebrating and Curating the Offbeat-2009-2021 6
Boom British Cinema into the Sixties 11
Reviews Animal Farm 17
Alias John Preston
The Last Man to Hang
The Unknown
The Abominable Snowman
The Strange World of Planet X
The Trollenberg Terror
The Man Upstairs
Violent Playground
Tread Softly Stranger
Horrors of the Black Museum
Tarzan's Createst Adventure
Cone of Silence
Konga
Faces in the Dark
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger
Please Turn Over
The Shakedown
The Singer Not the Song
Cash on Demand
The Day the Earth Caught Fire
The Impersonator
The Mark
Offbeat
Payroll
A Prize of Arms
Seven Keys
Captain Clegg
Swordplay British Swashbuckler Films 100
Reviews Dilemma 107
Jigsaw
Night of the Eagle
Strongroom
West II
The Damned
French Dressing
Girl in the Headlines
Maniac
The Small World of Sammy Lee
Unearthly Stranger
The Yellow Teddy Bears
Clash by Night
What a Crazy World
Devil Doll
Four in the Morning
We Shall See
Witchcraft
The Tomb of Ligeia
The Earth Dies Screaming
Catacombs
The Sandwich Man
The Shuttered Room
Berserk!
Charlie Bubbles
Herostratus
The Jokers
Our Mother's House
The Penthouse
Privilege
Just Like a Woman
The Anniversary
The Birthday Party
The Bofors Gun
Corruption
Negatives
The Strange Affair
The Hand of Night
The Touchables
Twisted Nerve
Bust British Cinema 1969-85 227
Reviews I Start Counting 233
The Reckoning
Permissive
And Soon the Darkness
Bronco Bullfrog
Deep End
Girl Stroke Boy
Goodbye Gemini
Black, White, Green, Red The Beatles and Colour 256
Reviews Let It Be 260
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly
My Lover, My Son
No Blade of Grass
Toomorrow
Spring and Port Wine
A Problem of Genre Iris Murdoch's A Severed Head on the Screen 279
Over the Cliff British Rock and Roll Films 285
Reviews Flight of the Doves 292
Melody
The Night Digger
The Nightcomers
Percy
Quest for Love
Revenge
Something to Hide
Unman, Wittering and Zigo
Walkabout
Doomwatch
Frenzy
Images
The Lovers!
Made
The Offence
Sitting Target
Tales from the Crypt
What Became of Jack and Jill?
The Blockhouse
Blue Blood
Dark Places
The Final Programme
The House in Nightmare Park
Tales That Witness Madness
A Dangerous Madness Opening the Door to Asylum Horror 365
Reviews That'll Be The Day 373
Deadly Strangers
Ghost Story
Gwaed ary Ser
House of Whipcord
The Mutations
Flame
Symptoms
Bedtime with Rosie
Eskimo Nell
Sullivan's Travails The Roldvale Sex Films 400
Reviews Inserts 409
The Lifetaker
Hennessy
Never Too Young to Rock
Three for All
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
The Anna Contract
The Black Panther
The Glitterball
Seen but Not Heard of The Children's Film Foundation 432
Reviews The Squeeze 441
The Uncanny
Jubilee
Killer's Moon
Prey
Tomorrow Never Comes
Bloody Kids
Home Before Midnight
Baby Love Underage Sex and Murder in British Cinema 468
Reviews That Summer! 476
Babylon
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
The Appointment
How Sleep the Brave
The Orchard End Murder
'LESS Hotx' Permissiveness and the AA Certificate 1970-82 495
Reviews The Plague Dogs 502
Who Dares Wins
The Boys in Blue
Britannia Hospital
G.B.H. Grievous Bodily Harm
Slayground
The Hit
Wild Geese II
Lifeforce
Comrades
Wings of Death Demise of the Short as Supporting Feature 534
Unbankable, Unemployable, Unlovable Ken Russell's 1980s 545
Afterword The 1980s and Beyond 556
Appendix Additional Jottings on the Short Film 562
Further Reading 569
Index 570
Acknowledgements 589
