Knights Electric

A very hard film to categorise. The soundtrack is relentless and eclectic, taking in Madness, Martha & The Muffins, John Foxx and the Ruts. There's not much in the way of plot, and what there is is spread *very* thinly, but the visuals are genuinely impressive, making Great Yarmouth look a lot more thrilling that it probably was in reality at the time. It's full of big, wide-angle shots in blazing colour of the seafront basking in sunshine and amusement park rides lit up for the evening crowd. Polished, bright and glossy, it looks very different from what one would tend to expect from an independent British movie from 1980. A few of the actors went on to build careers for themselves, but it's genuinely surprising that almost nobody involved on the production side seems to have had any significant further involvement in film-making.