Trivia

Critic David Pirie once described Horrors of the Black Museum (1959), Circus of Horrors (1960) and Peeping Tom (1960) as the "Sadean Trilogy" of British films.

Wrote two seminal works on the horror film, A Heritage of Horror: The English Gothic Cinema, 1946-1972 (1973) and The Vampire Cinema (1976)

One of the very few British critics to praise Sam Peckinpah's "Straw Dogs" in 1971; in the "Monthly Film Bulletin", he referred to it as "an indispensable Peckinpah masterpiece". The influence of Peckinpah's film on his first television play, "Rainy Day Women" (1984), is very clear and was widely noted at the time.