Movies

Beck was out late last night at some work thing so I took the opprtunity to eat pizza with the kids and then catch up on some movies. A strange little triple bill it turned out to be too: "seriously weird" 'Berberian Sound Studio' from last year - with Toby Jones as a British sound engineer employed to work on an Italian horror movie in the seventies and coming seriously unglued in the process - was sandwiched between the two films that Ben Wheatley did prior to 'A Field In England' - the black-comedy, serial-killer, caravan road-movie 'Sightseers' and the hitmen-and-pagan-witchcraft-thriller 'The Kill List.' The whole thing kind of reminded me of the sort of obscure 70's artifacts I used to run into as a teenage afficienado of late night TV (this was in the 80's actually but the movies tended to be of a slightly older vintage) - films like 'Psychomania', about an English motorcycle gang who sell their souls to Satan - that had Beryl Reed, I kid you not, as a witch who gets turned into a toad at the end; 'Hammersmith is Out' with Richard Burton as an escaped demonic lunatic; and 'Death line' about the cannibalistic descendents of the survivors of a Victorian tube station collapse preying on stray late night commuters.... It's good to know that, contrary to popular opinion, the do still make 'em like that...!