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The Joy of Satan (1993)

Produced at the height of Norwegian Black Metal’s ‘second wave’ The Joy of Satan was a bizarre attempt to cash in on the genre’s infamy. Featuring Bergen-based band Katastrophe in a ‘zany’ black comedy, apparently inspired by The Beatles’ Help , the film sees the band pursued by crazy Christian fundamentalists..’

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Island of the Cod Men (2016)

A bizarre piece of Euro-horror with a chequered history, Island of the Cod Men has been opportunistically re-released on DVD to coincide with current EU-UK disputes over fishing rights stemming from trade deal negotiations, post-Brexit…

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Never Had it So Good? (1975)

Set against the backdrop of the February 1974 general election, Humber’s film is a ‘ripped-from-the-headlines expose of the seamier side of the British political scene. The plot is straightforward: teenager Wally, attending a Young Conservatives convention declares that he wants to become a political groupie and stows away in the campaign bus of a parliamentary candidate, bound for what he thinks will be the bright lights of the London political scene.

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The Hippie Quake (1971)

The film posits a future where the peace movement has become ascendant across the world, not as a result of rational argument or peaceful protest, but rather by force. Frustrated by the resistance to their creed, have decided to force their whole ideal onto people, deploying psychedelically painted tanks against pro war protesters…

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Postmark Evil (1998)

Shot on the streets of Smethwick, Postmark Evil is an insane mix of horror and crime featuring an apparently demonic postman searching for a stolen artefact possessed of evil powers. Made on a miniscule budget, it is part of a cycle of direct-to-video exploitation releases produced by and starring Reg Smedley, all filmed in the West Midlands.

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They Came From Beyond England

A long forgotten film, condemned on its release and thought lost for many years, 1968’s They Came From Beyond England has recently resurfaced on DVD. An appalling piece of racism in which equates immigration with alien invasion, it sees illegal immigrants from Africa and the Indian sub continent parachute into the Home Counties and take over a large swathe of Surrey.

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The Two Faces of Brexit

A bizarre continental take on Brexit, which casts the whole debate over whether the UK should leave the EU or remain as a horror movie. Essentially a variant on Jekyll and Hyde, it features a pro-European journalist turning bestial after being secretly injected with a mysterious serum by a sinister pro Brexit politician.

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Hipsters in a Haunted House

Hipsters in a Haunted House features a trio of London hipsters who have ventured from the safety of gentrified Spitalfields for deepest, darkest ‘Mummerset’ en route to the Newton Abbot Beard Championships. Seeking shelter from a storm as they drive to the contest, they find themselves in a supposedly haunted house.

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Daughter of de Sade

The plot of this sixties exploitation movie involves the ‘daughter’ of de Sade giving a bloody good thrashing to various leading members of the establishment, including the aforementioned Tory MP, a High Court Judge, a Bishop and a minor Royal, in order to expose the hypocrisies of the ruling classes, showing that they themselves are practitioners of the very same sexual perversions her ancestor was persecuted for writing about.

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Escape From Taliban

An all-singing, all-dancing extravaganza depicting the events surrounding the attack on the World Trade Centre and its aftermath, this movie represents Bollywood’s take on the War on Terror.

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Abbott and Costello Meet Sherlock Holmes

Having finally laid to rest their classic horror monsters by pitching them against Abbott and Costello in a series of cheap B-movies, Universal Pictures, desperate to prop up the dire duo’s film career, turned their attention to another of their best loved franchises – Sherlock Holmes.

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Dogs on Drugs

Another attempt to recreate the Italian exploitation movie formula in the UK, ‘Dogs on Drugs’ presents the tale of a town’s pet dogs getting a dose of hallucinogenic drugs and turning homicidal.

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Paint it Blue (North Wind, 1972)

A dire 1970s British comedy that, even for that period, is scraping the bottom of the bottom of the barrel, ‘Paint it Blue’, is a tale of heroic British farting in the face of Fascism.

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Comrade Vampire (Kremlin, 1975)

Another of those intriguing Soviet-made movies compromised by criminal dubbing, this is an ideologically sound horror movie with vampires representing nasty capitalist and Nazi elements of society, and the forces of order and good being represented by sound communists and members of the Red Army.

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Captain Laser (Resal Films, 2002)

Captain Laser, was one of the few British superhero figures to make it to the screen during the superhero movie boom, albeit in this independently made and barely distributed adaptation with aspirations way beyond its budget.

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Adolf and Me (Sombrero International, 1969)

A frantic madcap comedy in which a Nazi war criminal’s desperate attempts to avoid detection by, amongst others, US and Israeli agents, are continually hampered by a zombified Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goering’s flatulent corpse and a deep freeze full of dead Nazis, this proved a massive hit in its native Mexico, but left the rest of the world slack-jawed with disbelief…

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