a someone who use to spend hour drive around the backstreets of north london in an attempt to avoid the horrific congestion and this film immediately appeal . throw in my interest in what london be like back in the late 70 and you have the basic premise for my version of tv heaven . on paper the film tick all the right box and and have just watch the knowledge the actual movie itself certainly live up to and if not exceed and my high expectation . visually and i be surprised how different london look back then ( i live in islington in the 90 and long after gentrification have transform the area ) . it truly come across a grimy and tatty and down at heel . london may still have bad housing estate and but the general feel of the place be much clean and brighter and pleasant nowadays ( base on what this movie show rather than my own memory ) . a for the story and the acting and well top mark obviously go to nigel hawthorne a the vampire . absolutely brilliant . he act deliberately unpredictably and alternate between total straight face severity and surreal mindgames in order to unnerve the knowledge boys a he put them through test after test . all in all this be an excellent and thoroughly enjoyable trip back into a very specific time and place that i find endlessly fascinating . but even if youre not especially interested in london circa 1979 and you will still enjoy follow the witty dialogue and likable character of the knowledge .