Short Sharp Shocks Volume 4 Blu-ray
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Posted September 15, 2025 08:49 PM by Webmaster
The British Film Institute has provided final details for its upcoming Blu-ray release of Short Sharp Shocks Volume 4. The release is scheduled to arrive on the market on October 13.
Description: It's back! A fourth compelling collection of SHORT SHARP SHOCKS revisits the heyday of the supporting program with a compendium of eerie and eccentric British short films presented for the first time in High Definition. Well-known names to spot include Patrick Macnee, John Le Mesurier, Gabrielle Drake and Elspeth Gray. Settle in for a strange cinematic journey through uncanny stories, twists in the tale, low-budget weirdness and oodles of atmosphere.
RELEASE CONTENT AND SPECIAL FEATURES:
THE FATAL NIGHT Mario Zampi, 1948
Zampi's nightmarish tale of a man pledged to stay overnight in a Mayfair haunted house makes its long-awaited High Definition debut.
DEATH IN THE HAND A Barr-Smith, 1948
Palmistry, predestination and the uncanny pervade this acclaimed feature that eerily paralleled a real-life tragedy.
STRANGE EXPERIENCES: HALLOWEEN PARTY and THE LAUGHING CLOWN Derick Williams, 1955/6
Two peculiar microbudget episodes of unease from a long-forgotten television show.
NIGHT RIDE Denis Meikle, 1967
Bloody murder, psychedelic occultism and Cormanesque conflagrations collide in an ingenious 8mm love letter to gothic from a renowned horror historian.
MIRROR MIRROR Gary Parsons, 1969
Look into the glass if you dare! An ostentatious amateur work, crafted by horror aficionados from the Eastbourne Cine Group.
SCARECROW John Sharrad, 1972
Drought-stricken 1930s Ireland is the setting for this oddly unsung ecological bird-terror, folk-horror mood piece.
RED Astrid Frank, 1976
This boldly bloody, poetic horror of lusty travelling troubadours and obscene occult ritual just barely scraped past the BBFC.
SANCTUM Bill Davison, 1976
Once banned, this edgy 8mm-shot exploration of dual personality and religious obsession re-emerges with an outstanding newly created score by The Begotten.
PLAY SAFE: FRISBEE and PLAY SAFE: ELECTRICITY David Eady, 1978
Frightening, flares-afire Public Information Films from that most dangerous of decades: the 1970s.
BLACK ANGEL Roger Christian, 1980
Mistily set amid Scottish mountains, this dreamlike fighting-fantasy mini epic was handpicked by George Lucas to play before The Empire Strikes Back
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Description: It's back! A fourth compelling collection of SHORT SHARP SHOCKS revisits the heyday of the supporting program with a compendium of eerie and eccentric British short films presented for the first time in High Definition. Well-known names to spot include Patrick Macnee, John Le Mesurier, Gabrielle Drake and Elspeth Gray. Settle in for a strange cinematic journey through uncanny stories, twists in the tale, low-budget weirdness and oodles of atmosphere.
RELEASE CONTENT AND SPECIAL FEATURES:
THE FATAL NIGHT Mario Zampi, 1948
Zampi's nightmarish tale of a man pledged to stay overnight in a Mayfair haunted house makes its long-awaited High Definition debut.
DEATH IN THE HAND A Barr-Smith, 1948
Palmistry, predestination and the uncanny pervade this acclaimed feature that eerily paralleled a real-life tragedy.
STRANGE EXPERIENCES: HALLOWEEN PARTY and THE LAUGHING CLOWN Derick Williams, 1955/6
Two peculiar microbudget episodes of unease from a long-forgotten television show.
NIGHT RIDE Denis Meikle, 1967
Bloody murder, psychedelic occultism and Cormanesque conflagrations collide in an ingenious 8mm love letter to gothic from a renowned horror historian.
MIRROR MIRROR Gary Parsons, 1969
Look into the glass if you dare! An ostentatious amateur work, crafted by horror aficionados from the Eastbourne Cine Group.
SCARECROW John Sharrad, 1972
Drought-stricken 1930s Ireland is the setting for this oddly unsung ecological bird-terror, folk-horror mood piece.
RED Astrid Frank, 1976
This boldly bloody, poetic horror of lusty travelling troubadours and obscene occult ritual just barely scraped past the BBFC.
SANCTUM Bill Davison, 1976
Once banned, this edgy 8mm-shot exploration of dual personality and religious obsession re-emerges with an outstanding newly created score by The Begotten.
PLAY SAFE: FRISBEE and PLAY SAFE: ELECTRICITY David Eady, 1978
Frightening, flares-afire Public Information Films from that most dangerous of decades: the 1970s.
BLACK ANGEL Roger Christian, 1980
Mistily set amid Scottish mountains, this dreamlike fighting-fantasy mini epic was handpicked by George Lucas to play before The Empire Strikes Back
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- Presented in High Definition
- 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): interview with John Attfield, actor in Night Ride
- Night Ride: Behind the Scenes (1967, 4 mins)
- The Colour of Blood (2025, 18 mins): interview with Red writer and director Astrid Frank
- Astrid's Little Folder of Wonders: images and ephemera from the personal collection of Astrid Frank
- Over the Mountains (2025, 22 mins): interview with Black Angel writer and director Roger Christian
- Rare images and ephemera from The Fatal Night, Death in the Hand, Sanctum and Black Angel
- Newly commissioned sleeve artwork by renowned illustrator Graham Humphreys
- First pressing only: Illustrated booklet with contributions from Jonathan Rigby, Vic Pratt, Dr Josephine Botting, William Fowler, Astrid Frank, Bill Davison and Roger Christian
