Description
The fourth volume in the BFI Flipside's celebrated Short Sharp Shocks series is another eye-opening assemblage of unusual, exceptional, exciting, horrific, eerie and eccentric short subjects.
Short Sharp Shocks is on an ongoing mission to curate an alternative Brit-screen history of overlooked rarities in deluxe home-entertainment editions – is another eye-opening assemblage of unusual, exceptional, exciting, horrific, eerie and eccentric short subjects - veering from the heyday of the British cinematic supporting programme, to the earliest days of commercial television; and far, far beyond.
Short Sharp Shocks Volume 4 features an uncanny cornucopia of ingenious micro-budget shockers, astonishing, award-winning amateur works, televisual twist-in-the-tale weirdness, breathtaking fantasy-film spectacle, blood-spattered rarities, petrifying public information frighteners and evocative avant-garde experimenta – all offering up oodles of atmosphere, and lovingly delivered to you, alongside an enviable assortment of newly-created interviews and extra features, in High Definition.
Disc 1:
- The Fatal Night (Mario Zampi, 1948, 50 mins)
- Death in the Hand (A Barr-Smith, 1948, 43 mins)
- Strange Experiences: Halloween Party (Derick Williams, 1955, 3 mins)
- Strange Experiences: The Laughing Clown (Derick Williams, 1956, 4 mins)
- Night Ride (Denis Meikle, 1967, 19 mins)
- Mirror Mirror (Eastbourne Cine Group, 1969, 8 mins)
Disc 2:
- Scarecrow (John Sharrad, 1972. 17 mins)
- Red (Astrid Frank, 1976, 24 mins)
- Sanctum (Bill Davison, 1976, 19 mins)
- Play Safe: Frisbee (David Eady, 1978, 1 min)
- Play Safe: Electricity (David Eady, 1978, 11 mins)
- Black Angel (Roger Christian, 1980, 25 mins)
Product details
| SKU | 5035673015353 |
| Blu-Ray Region | B |
| Brand / Publisher | BFI |
| Catalogue Number | BFIB1535 |
| Certificate | 18 |
| Countries | UK |
| Director | Various |
| Format | Blu-ray |
| Language(s) | English |
| Product contents | 2 discs |
| Running time | 224 mins |
| Subtitles | English subtitles for the deaf and partial hearing |
| Year | 1948 - 1978 |
| Colour | Colour |
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