• Blood And Roses

    Location: London
    Active: 1982-1985

    Emerging from the positive punk movement in London alongside Southern Death Cult, Sex Gang Children, influenced by the bleaker sound cultivated by UK Decay. Their songs were shrouded in the dark haze illuminated by the glow of horror films (Blood and Roses, 1960) and touching on occult writings. This was evident in not only the subject matter of I Spit on your Grave (I Spit On Your Grave, 1978) but cover versions of John Capenter soundtracks. They performed for the first time in January 1982 at the Anarchy Centre, London. There had been a few prior iterations of the band around founders Bob Short and Lisa Kirby. 

    Blood & Roses attracted the attention of radio host and producer John Peel for a session on his BBC program in 1983 and featured in the South of Watford ‘Positive Punk’ special by Michael Moorcock. They were involved with the anarcho/anti-vivisection zine collective Kill Your Pet Puppy (along with Dave Roberts of Sex Gang Children) and included on The Whip compilation.

    Links:

    Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/353038-Blood-And-Roses
    John Peel: https://peel.fandom.com/wiki/Blood_And_Roses

    Related: Brigandage, Southern Death Cult, Sex Gang Children, UK Decay, Blood And Roses, I Spit On Your Grave, Bob Short, Lisa Kirby, John Peel, Positive Punk, Kill Your Pet Puppy, The Whip, London, 1982, Anarcho

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  • Last Stop On The Night Train

    aka L’ultimo treno della notte, Nigh Train Murders

    April 8, 1975 (Italy)

    L’ultimo treno della notte, released with the English title of The Night Train Murders or Last Stop on the Night Train debuted in 1975. It’s a particularly brutal horror revenge film directed by Aldo Lado along the lines of Last House on the Left and I Spit On Your Grave (both influenced by Ingmar Bergman’s Virgin Spring). Flavio Bucci (Suspiria), Macha Méril (Deep Red, Vagabond) , Irene Miracle (Midnight Express, Inferno) with soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. It was included in the UK’s infamous ‘video nasty’ list of banned films in 1983. Filming took place in Innsbruck and Tyrol. It takes place on Christmas holiday, following two students who are violently killed on the train by a group of thugs and a sadistic voyeur who only encourages them to push further (trigger warnings here). When the killers happen to visit the parents of the victims, their actions are revealed and a brutal revenge sequence is what follows.

    Director: Aldo Lado
    Stars: Flavio Bucci, Macha Méril, Gianfranco De Grassi

    Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Stop_on_the_Night_Train
    IMDb: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0073836/