Rent Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire (1987)
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Billy Kid (Phil Daniels) is a seventeen year old boy who loves to play snooker. He could be the best in the world, but the seven times world champion, Maxwell Randall (Alun Armstrong), disagrees. Both characters are a tad eccentric - Billy lives in a cowboy fantasy and Maxwell sleeps in a coffin - and a showdown is staged between the young cowboy and the old vampire, in which the loser will never play professional snooker again...
- Actors:
- Phil Daniels, Alun Armstrong, Bruce Payne, Louise Gold, Eve Ferret, Richard Ridings, Don Henderson, Zoot Money, Neil McCaul, Johnny Dennis, David Foxxe, Danny Webb, Trevor Laird, Paul Cooke, Ben Cole, Chrissie Cotterill, Trevor Cooper, Ricky Diamond, Sarah Crowden, Peter Greeves
- Directors:
- Alan Clarke
- Producers:
- Simon Mallin
- Writers:
- Trevor Preston
- Aka:
- Billy and the Vampire
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Horror, Music & Musicals, Performing Arts
More like Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Reviews (1) of Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Perhaps the strangest musical of the 80s - Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire review by AER
Giving The Rocky Horror Picture Show a run for its money, the late socio commentator Alan Clarke took a break from the types of film he'd make his name with like Scum, The Firm, and Made in Britain. This bonkers musical imagines a snooker tournament between Billy The Kid and Count Dracula in a weird concrete complex set in the 'future' or an alternative present. It's at times very funny, very creative, but mostly it's very boring and was probably very out of touch with what the young people of 1987 were actually turned on by at the cinema, the clubs and at night. Mad and forgotten, I am happy to have finally found this true one-off.... It features the great Phil Daniels (Quadrophenia / Meantime / Outlaws (TV)), Alun Armstrong (Funny Cow / Get Carter), and Bruce Payne (Passenger 57) all singing their lungs out.
Not bad but lacks the bite to be a classic. 4 out of 10.