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Basically, if you're setting yourself up to watch your big Friday/Saturday night movie, this isn't the one to go for. Indeed, I'd give it a miss on several other days as well. Although, on one of those days when you're bored stiff, you've somehow managed to watch everything else that you fancied and this is the only thing available, then give it a go. The acting of smaller part players is quite laughable, the plot - dodgy though it is - is distinct madness, and many other aspects are also pretty grim.

However, on the plus side, it does contain several proper good laughs, the main two actors are not terrible, and in general, it has a quintessential charm that garage made movies can sometimes have.

Overall, far from the worst thing I've seen and given the budget of what looks to be about three hundred quid, not a bad job.

To see a film or TV series you really enjoy is a great feeling. However, to discover something this epic that was made 35 years ago that you previously knew nothing about it an incredibly rare treat indeed.

I bought a box of old DVD's for £5 in a charity shop. Must have been thirty discs in there in paper sleeves. Mostly rubbish or popularise TV series - couple of Friends discs, a few Kevin and Stacy etc etc. Then two discs called Nightingales. Looked at them, then for four months, didn't even put them in a player to see what they were. Oh my word, then I did!

I watched both discs right through all on that same evening. Finished at four in the morning and went to bed like a giddy school child.

These programs cut the mustard like VERY few other comedies. Father Ted, Black Books, maybe a couple of others. If you like your comedy main stream, to have a noble parable for an end, or to contain easy going situations that are more see-through than a piece of glass, then keep moving. If you like completely off the wall, unfathomable plots, great great acting with brilliant word play, then there is virtually no other series like this.

I am stunned, and in many ways sad that this series isn't better known or more available. Surely this is THE hidden gem of comedy series.

Find it - download it (if that's possible), buy the discs (if they are even still available), borrow it (if you have a friend who's taste is so great that they already have it), but what ever you do - GET IT & WATCH IT!

Trevor Oblong needs your views!

It starts off a little disjointed and doesn't flow as well as it might, but that may partly be because of course I'm reading subtitles and therefore may not be following as well as I may be as a native tongue. However, after twenty five minutes, it comes together very nicely and offers some great scenes. It has a decent level of suspense and a perfectly adequate sprinkling of dark scary effects. Acting is well on par with anything else at this level of cinema, and I've no idea why someone has whittled on about Japanese disrespect or that the female in the movie was just to tick a box. Some people are truly bizarre.

Overall, very enjoyable to watch and doesn't seem overly long even at two and a quarter hours.

Give it a go.