Terror on the home front - literally - in this heady and eccentric brew.

There's terror on the home front - literally - in this heady concoction brewed by the brilliantly eccentric Richard Massingham. A somewhat overripe blend of child psychology and anti-Nazi propaganda, laced with touches of noirish chiaroscuro, dreamlike surrealism and Grand Guignol, builds to an almost cosmic crescendo. Moral: "The understanding of fear is the beginning of courage."

This film shows how fear in early childhood - of the dark for example - can handicap a person in adult life and how it can be exploited by an enemy in wartime.