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Saturday, 29 October 2022

The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water (aka There Are Backwater Places All Hidden From View)

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Jeff Grant's 1973 film Lonely Water is as perfectly crafted a horror experience as you're likely to find in just 90 seconds. It has...
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Friday, 21 October 2022

Treehouse of Horror '95: Nightmare on Evergreen Terrace (aka I'm Your Boyfriend Now, Nelson!)

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It might have been all a massive coincidence, but for a while there, Groundskeeper Willie seemed to be one of those Simpsons characters who...
Thursday, 13 October 2022

Treehouse of Horror '95: Attack of The 50-Foot Eyesores (aka Get Into The Cold)

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When "Treehouse of Horror VI" (aka episode 3F04) first aired on October 29th 1995, it represented the brand new model for the Tree...
Saturday, 8 October 2022

Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives: Pier (aka Victim)

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Naked emotional sincerity might have been the tactic favoured by the original batch of "Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives" films ...
Thursday, 6 October 2022

Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives: Jenny (aka Mother)

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Of the early wave of "Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives" films that circulated UK television in the late 1980s, I give "Jenn...
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Thursday, 29 September 2022

Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives: Fireman's Story

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When the "Drinking and Driving Wrecks Lives" campaign first launched in 1987, the idea was to divert emphasis from the immediate...
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Sunday, 25 September 2022

Words and Pictures '90: Oscar Got The Blame

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There were few picture books that struck me as quite as cursed, as a budding reader, as Tony Ross's 1987 publication Oscar Got The Blame...
Sunday, 18 September 2022

Words and Pictures '84: Owl vs Winter

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There was always something about the Vicky Ireland era of Words and Pictures that's stuck me as a little eerie and haunted - and by tha...