South Of Watford – London Comics & LARPing in the 80s!

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I love YouTube, you just never know what you’re going to find out there, case in point being that I stumbled upon this amazing 1987 episode of the ITV show South Of Watford which looks at the late 1980s comic boom. This is such a fun watch and looks so incredibly 80s, highlights include actual footage from inside the original Forbidden Planet on Denmark Street, footage from one of the Westminster Comic Marts, Watchmen, Wendy James from Transvision Vamp talking about Halo Jones, a young looking Neil Gaiman plus plenty of West End streets!

PLUS that lead on to find the South Of Watford episode from 1984 looking at fantasy role playing games with lots of Dungeons & Dragons action plus a look at very early LARPing and it’s presented by Ben Elton of all people, this is equally amazing, you have to check out the fantastically grumpy man in the games shop!

And as a bonus here the Blue Peter report on LARPing at the same location…

The Legend Of Hillbilly John

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One of the real discoveries from our DukeFest 35MM Trailer Party was the super rare trailer for The Legend Of Hillbilly John. I’d picked this up from someone selling their collection in Los Angeles and it was one of the trailers I wanted to play the most on the night. What’s interesting is that this looks like it’s a re-issue trailer as it’s now under the name Who Fears The Devil, possibly an attempt to make it sound more horror’esque? Sadly it’s gone quite red, but this is super rare and I’m so pleased we finally found this one.

70MM Lives!

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70MM

Here’s a dose of super rare 70MM trailer action, just where could we be dropping this off today?

The DukeFest 35MM Trailer Party

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Here’s the full list of every trailer we played at the 35MM Trailer Party – Wednesday 29 June, 2016 at The Prince Charles Cinema, London. All titles are linked to their IMDb pages if you want more into on them. Big thanks to Just from FilmBar70 and Joe from Aorta Burst Film Club for joining us on the night!