I listened to the excellent commentary on
House of Whipcord (1974) last night with Barry Forshaw, Kim Newman and screenwriter David McGillivray. I've always thought McGillivray a bit of a miserable git in interviews who doesn't like anything but he was great here.
A couple of things stood out for me. The first being he and Newman discussing review writing. They both agreed that publishers always wanted a brief synopsis of what was being reviewed to begin with rather than straight in with the reviewers thoughts.
Secondly Kim Newman said he was about to start a writing a new book on British horror in the seventies which sounds just up my street.
Going to watch the hour of interviews on the disc shortly. Must get value out of my eighty quid spend.
