A Warning to the Curious (Gordon Clark, 1972) + Baby (Nelson-Burton, 1976):
This TV film double is part of the 'Roots, Rituals and Phantasmagoria' season at BFI Southbank curated by Daniel Kokotajlo, director of the forthcoming film Starve Acre.
Daniel Kokotajlo introduction to A Warning to the Curious:
When you’re in the mood, there’s nothing quite like a 1970s British
‘curiosity killed the cat’ creeper. Don’t mess with weird effigies and
cursed relics buried in the ground or walls of your new home. A Warning
to the Curious is particularly effective in its quiet and menacing
atmosphere, as an archaeologist goes hunting for a mystical crown buried
somewhere along the Norfolk coast.
Here (and above) is an extract from A Warning to the Curious.
Daniel Kokotajlo introduction to Baby:
By contrast, Baby brings relationships, children and hysteria back into
frame. A young couple move to the countryside and discover a creepy,
mummified animal in the walls. The wife’s concerns are all but ignored
by her pragmatic husband, played to an agonising tee by 1970s Quatermass
star Simon MacCorkindale.
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