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The Children& #39;s Film Unit, formed by ex-Avengers writer Colin Finbow, produced films by children, for children. Finbow taught kids every aspect of film production, both behind and in front of the camera. Channel 4 showed some of the best CFU films, and they were very dark indeed.
Daemon (1985) concerned schoolboy Nick Foster, who, after moving to a new house and school, starts to develop inexplicable sores, hears strange voices and (the 80s!) his home computer displays uncanny messages. Is Nick depressed... or haunted?
Then there was 1984& #39;s Dark Enemy; the young survivors of an apocalypse set out from their idyllic valley to find a new leader for their tribe, but when the cause of the Elder& #39;s extinction is revealed, things will never be the same again...
Doombeach (1989) is nothing less than & #39;Edge of Darkness& #39; for kids. After 13 year-old Gavin& #39;s mate is hospitalised after swimming in the ocean, he suspects the local power plant of pumping waste into the water (I& #39;ve cut away from the surreal, bleaker than bleak ending here)...
1990& #39;s & #39;Survivors& #39; is a favourite of mine. Ian (Rockliffe& #39;s Babies) Hogg is a teacher who takes his class on a survival holiday to a remote island, has a full nervous breakdown, then starts hunting them down like animals...
