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‘He was very quiet, a real contrast to Robert. He rarely came out of his shell. He could have pushed himself on the music scene in Cambridge, but my memory was that he was never keen to become known.’ This is a thorough and well- researched biography of Nick Drake. I discovered his music as a teenager – folk songs that struck me as utterly haunting, quietly aching, dreamy, otherworldly and tinged with a raw sadness at times. ‘Take a look, you may see me on the ground, I’m a p

Directed by Peter S. Traynor. A director substitution pulled the film toward exploitation territory, yet the resulting turbulence and constant arguments did not destroy this film. For a low-budget independent feature, it holds together well. Much of the credit belongs to Sondra Locke and Colleen Camp, who commit so fully to their roles they take being psychotic and deranged to the very brink. Two women arrive at George’s door late one night. They are strangers, and their beau

FBI special agents who study serial killers must be able to look directly into the darkness, without flinching - not everyone can do this. If you study real life horrific acts of any kind, you must look right into that abyss, or you will not be able to do the crucial scientific research into the subject. We all look at life through the lens of our experience and how we see our identity. From this we build a set of belief systems. In the 1980’s a young special FBI agent, Bill

Conversations with a Killer – the Book – The Ted Bundy Tapes ‘He was clearly a narcissist, and he was also paranoid. So, while he didn’t trust anybody he also really enjoyed being in the limelight and thought it was a wonderful game that he was playing. Journalist Stephen. I thought if he was innocent, like he said he was, it would be a great story. It took about two weeks, however, for me to realise that Ted was as guilty as hell. Stephen G. Michaud and Hugh Aynesworth Theod

When released in the 1960’s, this film was marketed purely on its eroticism, though by modern standards it may appear tame. What holds the attention is the quiet tragedy of Theo, a man too weak to extricate himself from a life that no longer fits him. He exists mostly in fantasy. He has allowed the real world to fade out, visiting it like a ghost gazing into an abyss. In psychology, one might say that Theo has a fantasy-prone personality, yet this is not always a negative. Ma

This is film is neural disruption at its finest. Visuals and dialogue move so fast the brain doesn’t have enough time to catch the entire meaning, creating a kind of cognitive conflict that you feel. It disorients and intoxicates, bending perception until reality itself seems fluid. It’s string theory unravelled, dimensional boundaries collapsed, identities in constant flux and a man constantly moving through doors to a new experience, unlocking a puzzle that appears infinit

Christine Hornisher’s film set in 1970’s haunts you, not with ghosts, but with characters lost to the world. They carry the weight of dreams they know are probably out of their grasp. The cameraman is a killer addicted underground erotic film. The girl was once pushed into sleazy films to pay the rent: women are killed and women who are used up as sexual objects, in this city women have no voice. Hornisher renders the seedy side of this world with an unflinching eye, she move

Booklet and interviews by Simon Sheridan. Simon did the documentary on British pornographic star Mary Millington; I mentioned the boxset in an earlier post. This film is forty minutes with extras including audio commentary and Interviews with filmmaker Ken Rowles and actress Françoise pascal. Cover by Sean Longmore.

I have always liked Carroll Baker. 88 Films produced this remastered Blu-ray.