Cultpix Radio Ep.18 - British 'Filth' Institute & Flipside

Django Nudo and Smut Peddler try recording themselves on camera, rather than just with microphones. This could get interesting, at least if D.N. ever figures out how to use iMovie. In the meantime there is a shameless plug for the Everyman Cult Tuesday that kicks off in UK next week with a screening of the 4K restoration of "Night of the Living Dead" (1968).  This week we are proud to have partnered the British Film Institute (BFI) to showcase some lesser known films, which have been issued on the Flipside label. “BFI Flipside is dedicated to rediscovering the margins of British film, reclaiming a space for forgotten movies and filmmakers who would otherwise be in danger of disappearing from our screens forever. It is a home for UK cinematic oddities, offering everything from exploitation documentaries to B-movies, countercultural curios and obscure classics, If it's weird, British and forgotten, then it's Flipside.” We have four films from Flipside. “Herostratus” (1967) by Don Levy stars Michael Gothard and a 22-year old Helen Mirren, in a story of a young man who has decided to kill himself  spectacularly. Experimental and strange, it influenced directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Nicolas Roeg and Michael Winner. Worth the price of admission alone for the scene of (future Dame) Helen Mirren in a fetching corset and fishnets. (We play her sexy monologue about rubber gloves.)“Requiem for a Village” (1975) is a folk-horror/drama, though not as scary as well observed. Think of it as a genteel Night of the Midsommer Dead. Directed by David Gladwell, who was an editor for the BBC, this story of  the rural past of a Suffolk village coming to life through the memories of an old man. He tends a country graveyard and sees the dead rise up from the graves, living their lives again.  (We play the avantgarde choir.)"Voice Over" (1981) by Christopher Monger stars the great Ian McNeice in the lead. The film is a mix of “Berberian Sound Studio” (2012) and John Candy comedy “Delirious” (1991) in which a radio host see the line between fiction and brutal reality slowly blurring. Made for just £11,000  it became director Chris Monger ticket to Hollywood. (Hear the monologue by Ian McNeice when he starts to lose it.)"Sleepwalker" (1984) by Saxon Logan is the most pure horror of any of the films. Two couples stay in an old victorian house and “a fractious evening of drunkenness and sexual rivalry soon turns bloody as the guests fall victim to an unhinged attacker.” A mix of satire and horror, it is like a cross between the films of Lindsay Anderson and Dario Argento. (We play the eerie intro music.)Featuring two-thirds of the Pythons gang (Palin, Jones, Idle and Gilliam) “Do Not Adjust Your Set” (1967-69) was an influential 60s comedy sketch show with bizarre musical antics of the legendary Bonzo Dog Band. (We play their song Hunting Tigers Out in India.)  “Masters of Venus” (1962) was distributed as a cinema serial about two children accidentally launched into a space in a rocket built by their father (NB: not Elon Musk).Having accidentally crashed half-way through the recording (Smutty's laptop batteries died), we make it to the end and just give a quick name check to this week's other new film, "Frozen Scream" (1975). We end with Bonzo Dog Band's song Death Cab for Cutie, which is where the US indie band took their name from.

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