ANGELA and ELKAN ALLAN are married and have previously collaborated on
The Sunday Times Guide to Movies on Television (Times Books 1973 and Hamlyn
Paperbacks 1980). His grandfather ran the first cinema in East London, the
Penny Palace, where his father turned the handle of the projector. He has
written about films and television for The Sunday Times and Now!, he was
the first editor of Video Viewer and created The Observer Video Club. She
was show-business columnist for Woman's Own and review editor for Video
Viewer. They live in a Victorian rectory in Suffolk with their two children
and four cats.

"In compiling it, we have concentrated on the most stable aspect of this
continually-changing industry, the pre-recorded movies on tape that came
out during the year under scrutiny. We have divided up our selected 700.
1983 releases into 17 categories. 'Adult' and 'nasty' have been totally
ignored: most in these two categories are so repetitive that it's virtually
impossible to distinguish one from another If readers insist on sampling
one from each, just to say they have seen the best, we would recommend any
of the Electric Blue compilations (there are at least 14), for the prettiest
girls doing the most outrageous things to themselves and others. From the
'nasties' try The Evil Dead, now a cult film. Some of the critical summaries
in these pages have been adapted from longer reviews, which appeared in
Video Viewer in the period up to the October issue - when we were compiling
that monthly magazine. The Music section is almost wholly taken from John
Hazelton s perceptive reviews."

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