At Further Reeding, friend of the Gutter Leslie Allenbach Hatton joins Doug Tilley to talk about The Damned (1963)! “Black leather, black leather, kill kill kill! On a brand new episode of FURTHER REEDING we’re digging into the pre-apocalyptic, sea-side pleasures of the 1963 sci-fi classic THE DAMNED (aka WE ARE THE DAMNED), directed by the great Joseph Losey and starring Macdonald Carey, Shirley Anne Field, and – of course – our boy Oliver Reed! It’s about a group of irradiated kids having to live underground as prep for the upcoming nuclear holocaust. Cheery stuff!”

Listen here. And check out an essay on the film as folk horror for the Atomic Age from the Gutter’s own Keith Allison here.