Wednesday, 10 February 2016
The Pike!!
Great book! Great cover! Especially the banner in the top right-hand corner! No, not 60p, it cost £1.99, the robbing bastards! Soon to be a major film! Surely this would be a great cinematic event, added to the Brit-horror canon of recent years up with Hellraiser and, er, all those films with Craig Fairbrass in them. But sadly, as you (the only reader) and I both know it was never made. Joan Collins never got the chance to bat off a paper-mache pike in Lake Windemere, no matter how much you screw up your eyes and hope it'll happen (I do this when I want to see more of the Clockwork Wizards band in Dr Phibes). There is a little more to be found here. But what of the author?
Cliff Twemlow, martial artist, author, straight-to-video auteur - a remarkable man. Library music composer ...
Eh? More soon...