THE SWEENEY ANNUALS (1976-1978): Post-watershed fun with Reagan and Carter - a bullet to the groin, a double page spread of the pissed-up duo in a sweaty pub, and grimy photos. Just the thing for the little 'uns to unwrap on Christmas Day.

TAKE CARE WITH CIGARETTES (1982): Doom-laden PIF about one woman's final bedtime. And the cat's too, unless it got lucky.

Just 17 tickets left for our Folk Horror show at Carshalton on 29 October! This one's heading for a sell-out...

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The Scarred For Life Folk Horror Show tour rolls on, and it's coming down south! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social are coming to Burton and Carshalton on the 28 and 29 October. We can't wait for this Halloween treat! Burton: bit.ly/3P5MT36 Carshalton: bit.ly/4tGK9qS

THE GHOST HUNTERS (1975): Seminal BBC doc about 'people who look for ghosts - and some of the people who have seen them'. Here, ghost hunter Benson Herbert explains the benefits of his Negative Ion Pistol...

THREE WEEKS TODAY! The Scarred For Life Folk Horror show will be at Brewhouse Arts Centre, Burton! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social will be looking at The Wicker Man, Children of the Stones, Play for Today, K-9 and Company, and, ooh, loads more besides. Loads! Box office: bit.ly/3P5MT36

SURVIVORS (1975): Terry Nation's dystopian drama about a community trying to rebuild society after a plague wipes out 99% of the world's population...

NEW ON PATREON! Two brand-new Scarred For Life essays for spooky season about BBC1's classic 1975 documentary THE GHOST HUNTERS, featuring a roll-call of wonderful eccentrics, and TOPPS FRIGHT FLICKS, an insanely gory set of 80s bubble gum cards. Join the community: bit.ly/4yl2ihl

I've stumbled across an image that sums up 1979 during the Scarred For Life era, combining ITV's 11 week strike with the Yorkshire Ripper...

Our trilogy of books are heaving with essays about the dark pop culture of the 70s and 80s! Get a big 15% off with the case-sensitive code READMORE15 till midnight, Friday October 9. Also available as colour eBooks! Store: linktr.ee/scarredforlife

UNDERMIND (1965): A proper gem from the first stirrings of the Scarred For Life era. Denis Quilley, Jeremy Wilkin and Rosemary Nicols star in this subtle, cerebral alien invasion serial. The writing staff is full of Doctor Who alumni, too!

MIDLANDS WEIRDIES, GATHER ROUND! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social are bringing the Scarred For Life Folk Horror show to the Brewhouse, Burton-on-Trent, on Wednesday 28th October! Tickets: bit.ly/3P5MT36

It's not often you get public information posters that become design classics, and the rabies posters of the 1970s are suitable for framing. As far as I know, no other infection was given an official, none-more-metal, logo. But the rabies logo rocks!

There will always be a place in my heart for the Look-In magazine covers, painted by the great Arnaldo Putzu, which teased all manner of sci-fi/glam rock team-ups. Who wouldn't want to see Cmdr. Koenig stomping to Tiger Feet?

THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE FILM SHOW (1988): Channel 4's early years were an education. This brilliant series, hosted by an enthusiastic Jonathan Ross, introduced me to Russ Meyer, John Waters, Ed Wood, Tsui Hark, Doris Wishman, and in this episode, the Godfather of Gore, H.G. Lewis!

HOUSE OF HAMMER/HALLS OF HORROR (1976/1982): Dez Skinn's beautiful British horror mag featured bags of info and some gorgeous comic strip adaptations of Hammer films. It had a facelift in 1982, branching out into the new decade's horror films (and video nasties!)

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our Scarred For Life Unplanned show at Burnley Library last night! Me and @bobfischer.bsky.social had a great time listening to your scars and spooky stories. And it was lovely to meet the organisers, David and Holly from Northern Folklore Archive!

Are your shelves creaking under the weight of our huge books yet? They're crammed full of essays about the dark pop culture of the 70s and 80s. And get 10% off till midnight on Friday 2 October with the case-sensitive code BOOKBAG10! Store link in bio

The revived EAGLE (1982) was ostensibly the family-friendly alternative to 2000 AD. Nevertheless, it gave us the famously creepy Doomlord, dystopian nightmare The Tower King, fearsome dinosaur Bloodfang, and gritty dole drama Dolebusters!

Getting prepped for tonight's FREE Scarred For Life Unplanned show at Burnley's lovely Central Library! It's technically booked up, but there may be a few places left! Book here: bit.ly/4xAGTQg

SATURN 3 (1980): Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Harvey Keitel (and Roy Dotrice's voice) star in this disco sci-fi horror that contained enough shocks and gruesome moments to keep 10-year old me happy. It was somehow an 'A'! The BBFC could be so lax back then...

SATURN 3 (1980): Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett, Harvey Keitel (and Roy Dotrice's voice) star in this disco sci-fi horror that contained enough shocks and gruesome moments to keep 10-year old me happy. It was somehow an 'A'! The BBFC could be so lax back then...

My Scarred For Life Patreon has 16 brand-new SFL essays, 5 Show and Tell videos featuring page-by-page looks at books and annuals, and 5 episodes of my SFL Bunker Show podcast! And there's new stuff every Wednesday at 9am! Join the lovely community over there... Link: bit.ly/4yl2ihl

HARPYA(1979): Channel 4's Four-Mations strand showed mind-blowing world animations during the 90s, including Raoul Servais' live action/stop-motion horror classic about a man who takes in a Harpy with an insatiable appetite...

DOCTOR WHO: DRAGONFIRE (1987) featured a brief Raiders-style face-melting scene which went out at 7.35pm. Top marks to the YouTuber who spliced the full unedited version into the original clip. Early evening gore? This is what they want!

The Treasury of British Comics Annual 2027 is out this November - featuring Helmet Head Vs Janus Stark! 📝 Script: Stephen Brotherstone (@scarredforlife.bsky.social) & Dave Lawrence (@scarredpodcast.bsky.social) ✏️ Art & Letters: Laurent LeFeuvre Pre-order today! bit.ly/4dJqbXk

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Imprint Films@imprintfilms.bsky.social · 2w ago

Announcing BRITISH BLOODLINES: Volume One (1971 - 1975)! Includes: • Revenge (AKA Inn of the Frightened People) • Quest for Love - Worldwide Blu-ray debut • Dark Places • The Monster (AKA I Don’t Want to be Born) - Worldwide 4K UHD debut 5-disc Limited Edition Hardbox. 1500 copies only. 📀

GRANGE HILL series 6 (1983) is astonishingly great drama from start to finish. The centrepiece is school bully Gripper Stebson's transformation into a racist thug surrounded by cowardly sycophants. Hard-but-fair (mainly hard) teacher 'Bullet' Baxter is having none of it...

NEW ON PATREON! Scarred For Life Show and Tell episode 5: as voted for by the lovely Patrons, I take a page-by-page look at Volume 1 of Orbis's legendary paranormal partwork, THE UNEXPLAINED! Yes, there are spontaneous human combustion photographs. Lots of 'em. Patreon link in bio

Me and Dave Lawrence have written a second Helmet Head strip for this year's Treasury of British Comics annual, out in November! A robot sheriff in the Old West teaming up with Victorian mutant escape artist Janus Stark? Yes, please!

The first episode of WORZEL GUMMIDGE (1979) sees the loveable scarecrow come alive for the first time, and it's directed like a scene from an Italian zombie film. Lucio Fulci would approve!