When
most self repecting teenagers are out swigging supermarket cider, the
Blast Films gang were producing intoxicating, action packed movies.
Most of the gang met as youth members of the Stockport Garrick Theatre where they performed together in plays as diverse as Massacre at Peterloo and Ernie's Incredible Hallucinations. The gang included actors, writers, directors and producers - a kind of Cambridge Footlights of the North.
Armed with nothing more than a two quid cine camera from a jumble sale, they simply learnt their trade as they went along.
(Not to be confused with the other Blast Films that makes boring 'innovative, stylish and compelling' stuff. As if you would.)
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Blast Filmography
Super 8mm Cine (1985-1989):
Quest for the GM Bus Timetable
The Dead Spooky Path
Albert Plughole PI
Star Trek
Mission: Impossible
Superman
Lost in Space
Attack of the Giant Tortoise
The Fantasy Zone
Land of the Giants
Plastcine Animation
Video (1990-1998):
The Doll
Goodbye My Deadly
Silence Is...
All the World's a Silver Screen
I Was a Fifty Foot Fuhrer
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the
Misguided Idealist (trailer only)
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I Was a Fifty Foot Fuhrer |
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Director: Mike Cummins
Screenplay: Mike Cummins
Cast:
Adam Williams, Sally Rycroft, Max Townsend, Robert Clayton, Gareth
Podmore, Keith Emmerson, Michael Brooks, Paul Metcalfe, Pat Dixon
The
Fourth Reich has been hiding in the basement of a scout hut for fifty
years, but a freak accident unleashes a huge Adolf Hitler on the
tranquil British countryside.
Can Mr H be stopped before he
destroys the BBC and its archive of 1966 World Cup video footage? |
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Sherlock Holmes |
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Director: Mike Cummins
Screenplay: Mike Cummins
Cast: Robert Clayton, Max Townsend, Michael Brooks, Adam Williams,
Sally Rycroft, Gareth Podmore, Jackie Williams
The
unfinished masterpiece! Holmes and Watson are up against a time
travelling beatnik armed with atomic letterbombs and a laser-sighted
blowpipe. Dig it? |
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Superman |
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Director: Mike Cummins
Cast: Adam Williams, Max Townsend, Michael Brooks, Keith Emmerson, Mike Cummins
Deep in Delamere Forest (just north of Metropolis), Lex Luther uses an atomic bomb to lure the Man of Steel into a trap. Can Superman save the simple folk of rural Cheshire? You'll believe a man can fly (almost)! |
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Albert Plughole PI |
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Director: Mike Cummins
Cast: Max Townsend, Michael Brooks, Adam Williams, Keith Emmerson, Tim Naughton
Private Investigator Plughole and his trusted sidekicks foil a plot to blow up Marple Bridge.
Everybody's favorite Blast prop - the 'bomb' makes its first appearance
in our tribute to Indiana Jones. |
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Lost in Space |
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Director: Adam Williams
Cast: Max Townsend, Michael Brooks, Sally Rycroft, Keith Emmerson, Mike
Cummins, Mark Levy
When
a mysterious alien kidnaps Penny it's left to Zachary Smith and young
Will to save her. Along the way they are attacked by a killer bush and
Major West's ghost. Boasts the biggest cast of any Blast Super-8mm
movie. |
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There's loads more Blast Films waiting to be uploaded, so come back soon... |
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