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Andrew Holmes
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Writer, ghostwriter, Cup-A-Soup drinker. https://greeneheaton.co.uk/clients/andrew-holmes
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Death Laid an Egg, 1968
September 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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One on Top of the Other, 1969
September 2, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Fanatic (1965) needs more plaudits. It’s got a top cast (Stefanie Powers, Tallulah Bankhead, Yootha Joyce, Peter Vaughan), a play based on a single line of its dialogue (Looped), a gothic mansion, and moments that weirdly seem to prefigure both Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Last House on the Left.
July 27, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Astounding rural waterskiing-on-the-road apparatus – as driven by Oliver Reed – in The Shuttered Room (1967).
June 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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If I Die Before I Wake, 1998
May 28, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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The Reckoning, 1970
May 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Hannie Caulder, 1971
May 27, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Susan George and Vanessa Redgrave in Pinteresque psycho-drama Out of Season (1975). Note the tomato ketchup dispenser. Just out of shot, a bottle of washing-up liquid on the windowsill.
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May 8, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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Nothing But The Night (1973), and the girl leading a school trip singsong is Gwyneth Strong, who grew up to be Cassandra in Only Fools and Horses.
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May 7, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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‘Who are you? What do you want?’ ‘Take it easy, lady, just relax and nobody will get hurt.’ ‘Get that filthy thing off my table!’ Sylvia Syms gets her priorities right in Give Us Tomorrow (1978).
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May 4, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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A location staple of British horror: the antiques shop. Here it’s where Michael Gough (himself a genre staple) browses for trinkets in Horrors of the Black Museum (1959).
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That location staple in British horror – an antiques shop. Here it’s where Michael Gough (himself a staple of British horror) shops for trinkets in Horrors of the Black Museum (1959).
April 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Peter Cushing disapproves of all the psychedelic discovating in Corruption (1968). Girlfriend Sue Lloyd wants to stay.
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Peter Cushing disapproves of all the psychedelic discovating in Corruption (1968). Girlfriend Sue Lloyd wants to stay. Peter Cushing disapproves of all the psychedelic discovating in Corruption (1968). Girlfriend Sue Lloyd wants to stay. Peter Cushing disapproves of all the psychedelic discovating in Corruption (1968). Girlfriend Sue Lloyd wants to stay. Peter Cushing disapproves of all the psychedelic discovating in Corruption (1968). Girlfriend Sue Lloyd wants to stay.
April 23, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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John Hurt and Alexandra Bastedo in The Ghoul (1975). Known to genre fans through her appearance in The Blood Spattered Bride, Bastedo later featured on the cover of The Smiths’ live album, Rank.
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John Hurt and Alexandra Bastedo in The Ghoul (1975). Known to genre fans through her appearance in The Blood Spattered Bride, Bastedo later featured on the cover of The Smiths’ live album, Rank.
April 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Corruption (1968), and after tragedy strikes at the psychedelic party, a tearful Kate O’Mara asks, ‘How did it happen?’ ‘Well,’ says Peter Cushing as the scene fades. ‘The party was getting wild…’
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Corruption (1968), and after tragedy strikes at the psychedelic party, a tearful Kate O’Mara asks, ‘How did it happen?’ ‘Well,’ says Peter Cushing as the scene fades. ‘The party was getting wild…’
April 23, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Letters on a tray (inc. windowed envelope) for Keith Barron in Baby Love (1971). One of them will herald the arrival of Linda Hayden and more psycho-sexual shenanigans than a dozen Poison Ivy films.
April 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Street scene filmed on the cheap equals pedestrians stop and stare. But Tony Beckley (The Italian Job, Get Carter) stays in character preaching the word in The Fiend (1972).

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Street scene filmed on the cheap equals pedestrians stop and stare. But Tony Beckley (The Italian Job, Get Carter) stays in character preaching the word in The Fiend (1972).
April 20, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Susan George makes coffee under pressure in Fright (1971). Director Peter Collinson, wisely, leaves the washing-up liquid on the windowsill.

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Susan George’s iconic coffee-making scene is imbued with plenty of tension in Fright (1971), but director Peter Collinson knows to include the washing-up liquid on the windowsill. Susan George’s iconic coffee-making scene is imbued with plenty of tension in Fright (1971), but director Peter Collinson knows to include the washing-up liquid on the windowsill. Susan George’s iconic coffee-making scene is imbued with plenty of tension in Fright (1971), but director Peter Collinson knows to include the washing-up liquid on the windowsill. Susan George’s iconic coffee-making scene is imbued with plenty of tension in Fright (1971), but director Peter Collinson knows to include the washing-up liquid on the windowsill.
April 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Martin Potter death stare in Goodbye Gemini (1970). The unlucky recipient is a dude romancing his sister, Judy Geeson. When Martin steps in, the siblings’ closeness attracts the interest of assorted hepcats – and Freddie Jones.

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April 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Washing-up liquid on the windowsill and a Withnail-esque pile of dirty dishes for Andrea Allan in The House That Vanished (1973)

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April 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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A clock radio on top of a Watergate book may well be symbolic in Pete Walker’s Schizo, 1976. Or it might not be.
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April 16, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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Grapefruit, a breakfast cigarette, and an expository Sun headline in The Fiend, aka Beware My Brethren (1972). To find a nude in those days you only needed to turn the page.
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April 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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An Emmanuelle peacock rattan armchair steals the limelight from Lynne Frederick in Schizo, 1976
April 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Noisy pub chatter was once the Wilhelm Scream of British cinema. Here it’s used as a backdrop to Terence Stamp stalking Samantha Eggar in The Collector, 1965.
April 15, 2025 at 5:46 AM
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Masterful two-handed telephone from Andrea Allan in The House That Vanished, aka Scream – And Die! (1973).
April 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM