Short Sharp Shocks - Volume 4 (Blu-Ray)

The fourth volume in the BFI Flipside's celebrated Short Sharp Shocks series — on an ongoing mission to curate an alternative Brit-screen history of overlooked rarities in deluxe home-entertainment editions — is another eye-opening assemblage of unusual, exceptional, exciting, horrific, eerie and eccentric short subjects - veering from the heyday of the British cinematic supporting programme, to the earliest days of commercial television; and far, far beyond.

Short Sharp Shocks Volume 4 features an uncanny cornucopia of ingenious micro-budget shockers, astonishing, award-winning amateur works, televisual twist-in-the-tale weirdness, breathtaking fantasy-film spectacle, blood-spattered rarities, petrifying public information frighteners and evocative avant-garde experimenta — all offering up oodles of atmosphere, and lovingly delivered to you, alongside an enviable assortment of newly-created interviews and extra features, in High Definition.

Disc 1:
The Fatal Night (Mario Zampi, 1948, 50 mins), Death in the Hand (A Barr-Smith, 1948, 43 mins), Strange Experiences: Halloween Party (Derick Williams, 1955, 3 mins), Strange Experiences: The Laughing Clown (Derick Williams, 1956, 4 mins), Night Ride (Denis Meikle, 1967, 19 mins), Mirror Mirror (Eastbourne Cine Group, 1969, 7 mins)

Disc 2:
Scarecrow (John Sharrad, 1972, 17 mins), Red (Astrid Frank, 1976, 24 mins), Sanctum (Bill Davison, 1976, 19 mins), Play Safe: Frisbee (David Eady, 1978, 1 min); Play Safe: Electricity (David Eady, 1978, c11 mins), Black Angel (Roger Christian, 1980, 25 mins)

Extras

• It Happened That Night (2025, 10 mins): interview with Mario Zampi Jr, son of the director of The Fatal Night
• The Devil Upstairs (2025, 17 mins): new interview with John Attfield, one of the stars of Night Ride
• The Colour of Blood (2025, 18 mins): interview with Red writer and director Astrid Frank
• Astrid's Little Folder of Wonders: images from the scrapbook of Astrid Frank
• Over the Mountains (2025, 22 mins): interview with the Black Angel's writer and director, Roger Christian
• Night Ride: Behind the Scenes (1967, 4 mins): rare behind-the-scenes footage and outtakes from Night Ride
• Image galleries for The Fatal Night, Death in the Hand, Sanctum, and Black Angel
• **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Illustrated booklet with contributions from Jonathan Rigby, Vic Pratt, Dr Josephine Botting, William Fowler, Astrid Frank, Bill Davison and Roger Christian
• Newly commissioned sleeve artwork by renowned illustrator Graham Humphreys

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