Dead Head: First Impressions
This is a blog post which almost never saw the light of day. I suspect that not that many readers of this blog will have come across the mini-series Dead Head from 1986, and yet strangely it is commercially available. It is summarised as a crime drama about a petty criminal who is given a box which turns out to contain a disembodied head and this is part of a conspiracy to frame him for the crimes of a sadistic serial murderer of prostitutes. It is filmed with much of the sensibility of a 1940s film noir. Sounds good, doesn't it? As soon as I read about it I started salivating and then when I found it was comemrcially available looked it out. It is expensive for a four-episode show. For the region two release on two DVDs you're looking at about £30 upwards from most sellers (the cheapest is CEX at £12 but it rarely comes up there), which means each episode is £7.50. As it happens I don't have money to throw around any more but would have been too cheap to pay that anyway. I...