some people (1962)

A trio of juvenile delinquents in Bristol, (including Ray Brooks and David Hemmings), form a group with the aid and encouragement of local church volunteer Kenneth More. With Kenneth's help and the youth awards programme he runs, the band begin to turn their lives around.
A not so subtle propaganda vehicle for the Duke of Edinburgh awards scheme, but still gives a good insight into the pre Beatles world of teenagers.

eleki no wakadaisho (1965)

aka Young General's Electric Guitar. Campus A-Go-Go. Electric Guitar Young Guy.
The second film in the "Wakadaisho" (Young General) series has Yuzo Kayama as a college American-football player who starts his own Eleki band to enter a talent contest. One of the members is Takeshi Terauchi, who plays a noodle delivery man.
The version I have doesn't have subtitles and as my Japanese is limited to 'excuse me' and counting to ten I didn't really get the nuances of it, but as in most teen movies there's not a lot of plot but lots of good looking bands playing Eleki (instrumental electric guitar music a la the Ventures and Dick Dale).

color me blood red (1965)

A struggling artist discovers the perfect shade of red for his paintings - blood. But he soon runs out of his source and needs to get more!
The Godfather of Gore creates the least gory but most watchable of his blood trilogy, that borrows shamelessly from Roger Corman's A Bucket Of Blood. All in all it's campy good gore.

wild zero (2000)

This is a movie with everything and more. A Japanese alien invasion, zombie, love story, comedy, involving a transsexual, an effete psychopath and Guitar Wolf, the self-proclaimed coolest rock n roll band in the world. What's not to like.
Won't win any awards, but certainly great to watch on a Saturday night with some beers.

the comeback (1978)

aka Encore. The Day the Screaming Stopped.
Jack Jones plays a recently divorced singer on the come back trail, who rents a country mansion to get away from it all. Unbeknown to him his ex-wife has already fallen victim to the killer. But who is the old crone that's offing people?
A surprisingly OK little slasher movie, if a little slowly paced at times.

alice in acidland (1968)

aka Alice Goes To Acidland.
You could say Alice falls in with the wrong crowd in this supposed morality tale of drugs and lust. The only problem is that it manages to make sex look the most boring thing in the world and you'd have to be on acid to enjoy this.

just for fun (1963)

"The big teen musical made just for you!" Teenagers try to win the right to vote in this fun excuse to cram as much pre fab four music into 90 minutes as possible. The Crickets, The Springfields, The Spotniks, The Tornadoes, to The Vernons Girls and Kenny Lynch amongst many others appear. This is what Amicus did before they discovered horror films.

the house that dripped blood (1970)

The third of the Amicus portmanteau films centres on a house. A detective has come to investigate the latest death and listens skeptically to the tales the estate agent tells. Four stories of varying suspense are relived before the detective finds out the truth.
Well made and with something for everyone, except the gorehounds amongst you, from voodoo to comedy.

night of the demon (1957)

aka Curse Of The Demon
Dana Andrews is a skeptical American professor, who gets caught up in the world of witchcraft and demons, in this fantastic suspense filled horror.
Revealing the demon adds a kitch element that I quite like, but reputedly the director argued against seeing the demon and these scenes were shot without him.

scream and scream again (1970)

1970 and AIP produced a bizzare British horror that seems to be a series of unrelated stories, that all converge to make sense in the end. Mixing totalitarian regimes, a vampiric serial killer detective story and even a Frankenstein type mad doctor. It all keeps you on your toes and determined to find out what the hell is happening. Vincent Price, Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing all make brief cameo's.

inferno (1980)

"Have you ever heard of the Three Sisters?"
The middle of the Three Mother's trilogy that Dario Argento started with Suspiria. Mysterious deaths, a spooky building, and the supernatural, are all mixed in. Some nice set pieces, and all the visual flare you expect from Argento. Worth seeing for these alone, but the film never quite gells as a whole.

live it up (1963)

AKA Sing and Swing.

1963 sees British teen beat as imagined by Joe Meek, who packs this slight story with as many of his roster of singers and groups as he can. Everyone from Kenny Ball, The Outlaws, (including a pre Rainbow Ritchie Blackmore), to Gene Vincent appear.
The story concerns a group of delivery boys tryng to make it in the pop industry and will they get to play their song to a music big wig? Of more interest though are the actors backing Heinz including David Hemmings and Stephen Marriott, (who would soon be fronting his own band, the Small Faces).

every day's a holiday (1965)

aka Seaside Swingers. The Adventures Of Tim.
A seaside holiday camp is the setting for this standard boy meets girl musical from 1965. It moves along nicely but never really sparks. Better to view it as a nice bit of 60's nostalgia with Freddie and the Dreamers clowning it up as the catering staff.

kill your idols (2004)

A comprehensive documentary, from 2004, on New York’s underground No Wave post-punk scene. Moving from it's birth in the late 1970’s, with the likes of Suicide, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, and DNA. Through the 1980’s, with the likes of Sonic Youth and Swans, before bringing it up to date with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Black Dice and Liars, interviewing the good and the bad of the scene along the way.

ladies and gentlemen the fabulous stains (1981)

Released in 1981, and featuring a smattering of punk royalty in Steve Jones, Paul Cook and Paul Simonon, this is the story of a trio of girls who try to make it in the world of rock. I spent years looking for this as it's never been released commercially on DVD, (well I believe Rhino released it for all of a day), and for all it's faults it's still a must-see for anyone remotely interested in punk or what became Riot Grrrl.