Cocksucker Blues is a odd little piece of history. Commissioned by the Stones following them on their Exile on Main Street tour in the US - their first time back there since the events at Altamont - when the film was finished and screened to them they decided it should never be allowed to see the light of day. A court battle ensued, and director Robert Frank won a strange victory: the film was allowed to be shown, but only…

I spent much of my teenage years (and beyond) watching horror movies, starting with the standard stuff from the local video shop years before I was meant to be seeing it, on to getting hold of NTSC copies of the then still-banned-in-the-uk classics like The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Then DVD came along and multiregion players and internet ordering and pretty much anything was available and I enjoyed extreme cinema from around the world, but even now as…