The Sorcerers: The Original Screenplay by John Burke - edited by Johnny Mains

Came across this at the Vault of Evil forum. From PS Publishing, due Aug 2013

Introduction - Jean Burke
Introductory Essay - Dr Matthew Sweet
The Sorcerers Discord - Johnny Mains
Sorcerers Treatment - John Burke
Sorcerers Screenplay - John Burke
The Sorcerers Happening - Ben Halligan
Original DVD linear notes - Kim Newman
Michael Reeves Biography - Tony Earnshaw

Blood on Satan's Claw blu-ray

Blood on Satan's Claw is due out on Blu Ray from Odeon Entertainment 22nd April 2013

Extras:

2012 Interview with Director Piers Haggard (HD)

Audio Commentary with Piers Haggard, Linda Hayden and Robert Wynne-Simmons
Audio Commentary with Mark Gatiss, Jeremy Dyson and Reece Sheersmith
Touching the Devil - The Making Of Blood on Satan's Claw (SD)
Linda Hayden: An Angel for Satan (SD)
Theatrical Trailer (SD)
Stills Gallery (HD)

The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale

Ed. Sukhdev Sandhu
132pp, 209mm x 137mm
PB, £16.99 (UK only)
+ Audio Cassette

From the website:
The first collection of critical and artistic responses to Kneale’s work, available only through Strange Attractor.

Designed by Rob Carmichael and edited by SS Sandhu, The Twilight Language of Nigel Kneale is a limited-edition Risograph book – published by Texte und Töne in collaboration with the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture – to mark A Cathode Ray Séance: The Haunted Worlds of Nigel Kneale, a day-long event held in association with Strange Attractor in New York in November 2012. It’s the first collection of critical and artistic responses to Kneale’s pathfinding body of work ever published.

Contributors include: Sophia Al-Maria, Bilge Ebiri, Mark Fisher, William Fowler, Ken Hollings, Paolo Javier, Roger Luckhurst, China Miéville, Drew Mulholland, David Pike, Mark Pilkington, Joanna Ruocco, Sukhdev Sandhu, Dave Tompkins, Michael Vazquez and Evan Calder Williams.

The book also comes with Restligeists, a cassette featuring specially-composed pieces by The Asterism, Emma Hammond and Robin The Fog, Hong Kong In The 60s, Listening Centre, Mordant Music, and The Real Tuesday Weld.

Offbeat edited by Julian Upton

New book from Headpress. The hardback was a limited edition that has sold out, but a paperback is due out in March. Even the most jaded viewer of obscure British films is going to find a lot of unseen material here, so those looking for new stuff would be well advised to pick up a copy.
One film of interest listed is The Appointment from 1981. "Edward Woodward comes the closest he ever would to reprising one of his most celebrated and enduring characters - Sgt. Howie in The Wicker Man. Here, just as in Hardy's wonderful folkloric tale, his uncompromising sense of duty, and his distinct lack of intuitive understanding of the things he cannot rationalise, both defines him and brings about his downfall." The film starts off well, but then goes badly downhill due to some ropey acting from the daughter - and the fact that her character and moaning is insufferable doesn't help much either. Once past that, Woodward's car journey is weird and involving, with an ending that is well sustained. Some of the plotting is obscure.

Mark E. Smith reading H.P. Lovecraft

From 2007. Smith versus the xmas festive spirit, breathing new life into The Color Out of Space.

The Witches (1966, UK)

This sounds promising - a Hammer film concerning witchcraft, written by Nigel Kneale. Sadly it isn't very good, though the scenes of English village life seem almost impossibly quaint. Perhaps part of the problem is the superfluous use of African rather than homegrown witchcraft. Plus it just isn't that interesting by the time the climax comes around. Strangely, Kneale quite liked the film, though he later had his name removed from Halloween 3, which is a much better little film.
On a related note I picked up a copy of Kneale's Tomato Cain, his first published story collection, printed in 1949, and winner of the Somerset Maugham Award. It's long been out of print, and I can see why - it's dated badly and the stories seem lame and pointless, mostly. Below is “The Photograph” from the Tomato Cain collection (broadcast December 23rd, 1978), read by Tom Baker.

The Witches full film:

Satanis, The Devil's Mass (USA, 1970)

This 85 minute documentary could have been edited down (to about 40 mins) as it is quite tedious in parts, but overall it's a sometimes interesting and entertaining look at early 70s satanism, as practised by Anton LaVey.