The last film on the ‘Short Sharp Shocks: Volume 2’ set I had yet to watch. ‘Hangman’ is a ‘Safety at Work’ film aimed at helping building site workers not die by drinking 16 largers and doing a bit of scaffolding.

Incredibly campy, it sounds like the whole film was narrated by Mike Reid, as he cheekily narrates the pitfalls ans follies that could lead to your demise.

I’m a sucker for PIF’s and this one’s great fun. Little on the more violent side than most. And I do feel the structure of the film (which is essentially a ‘guess what happens’ piece) is undermined by the opening 3 minutes in which they show basically all the accidents nastiest bits.

But hey, this is probably one of the more fun films on these sets, and arguably in the top 3 I’ve seen so far. I’d say if you enjoy public information films, you’ll probably get a kick out of this one.

source https://letterboxd.com/tytdreviews/film/hangman-1986/