THE MAN FROM NOWHERE
One of the CFF's Scary Stories on this BFI collection of spooky kids tales from the 70s and 80s.
It follows a young girl moving from an orphanage to live with her surly old rich uncle in the country. However, she is constantly seeing visions of a spooky bearded man in a top hat, who tries to het her to go back where she came from.
Despite a bit of a Scooby Doo type ending, this is an enjoyable story and nicely played.
THE PARTY'S OVER
An American businessman comes to London to marry his fiancee, only to find she got involved with a gang of drunken Beatniks, lead by Oliver Reed. When she disappears after one of their parties gets out of hand, it leads him to discover something much more sinister.
Oliver Reed steals the show in this controversial and surprisingly downbeat 1963 movie that suffered badly at the hands of the censors back in the day.
Fortunately the BFI have presented the original uncensored version on their wonderful Flipside blu ray edition. Highly recommended.
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