The first ‘AGFA Mystery Mixtape’ was a bit of a bumpy start to a series I really rather enjoy. Before the fast paced editing and rampant mind melting psychotropic look into the world of strange TV and cinema, we had this.

What is this? Well. Its basically 58 minutes where the ‘USA Up all night Bmovie awards’ act as a framing to showcase some rare extended snatches of behind the scenes footage from the ‘Reanimator’ films, ‘Don’t open till christmas’ and fangoria video issues with footage from conventions in the late 80s and interviews with the likes of wes craven, tobe hooper and Stuart Gordon.

It’s fine enough, but when I think of the mixtapes, this isn’t really what I want out of them. Like, it’s cool seeing all this rare footage. But I much prefer the editing style and tone of the later editions.

A bit pedestrian, this is almost certain to appeal to horror fans, and BTS followers. But people who like the weirder more demented editions, may want to look elsewhere.

source https://letterboxd.com/tytdreviews/film/agfa-mystery-mixtape-1/