proto-'Brimstone & Treacle' / 'Visitors' horror. As with other 60s Potter - cf. the Nigel Barton plays - for all its confidence and economy, there's also a sense of wings being clipped. This is the strongest, though, for how perverse it's willing to be. I always enjoy Potter's bittersweet attitude towards America.
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The Wrong Trousers 1993
Sensually uncanny - the intensity of my early memories of this is matched by the bounty of its visual detail and sound design. The stalls were set out by A Grand Day Out, a plasticine Eraserhead with Clangers mice that watched as a Northern man built a rocket in his cellar. Hadn't re-watched these in ages and hadn't realised that they were parodies of horror films. Studio Ghibli's Quatermass.
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The Quatermass Conclusion 1979
Bafflingly terse, which is a shame as the miniseries version is great - surprisingly weird and Alan Garner / David Rudkin-ish.
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