Proteus scores point for being one of the very few UK horror films – or, heck, low budget films of any kind – made before the arrival of lottery money and gangster chic in the late 90s. With the constant stream of modest, genre product that we currently have in this country, it’s easy to forget just how barren the 1980s and early 90s were for anyone whose taste ran to anything different from Merchant Ivory, Mike Leigh or Ken Loach