This is without a doubt, the WORST "horror" film I have ever seen, and I've seen them all. It is slow, plodding, and outright laughable. The fact that Susan George is beautiful dosent't make up for the fact that this story was so predictable, the "frights" so laughable and the acting so pitiful. Yes, it may have started the "trapped babysitter" genre, but it is horrible. If you truly want to see a great "trapped babysitter" film, rent Halloween.
A forgotten horror gem
A truly frightening film. Babysitter (Susan George) is hired to take care of kid, while couple goes to dinner. But that couple has a skeleton in its closet in the form of the woman's ex-husband who once tried to kill her. He's sent away to a psychiatric hospital, but escapes and decides to get even with wife who put him there. Film contains truly scary sequences and is a hundred times better than the generic "babysitter in peril" that appeared during the late 70's-early 80's. Acting is superb throughout, and Ian Brennan as the psychotic ex-husband is truly brillant. Film is a must see for horror fans.
I normally love Robert Fuest's work, and this is a change from his usual - much of it is shot outdoors and there is none of the surrealistic set detail of the kind found in the 'Dr Phibes' movies or 'The Final Programme', which allows the viewer to enjoy another facet of this underrated director. While this is a subtle and original film (which benefits from a great transfer onto DVD) it is a little overlong and the constant too-ing and fro-ing of the characters between a handful of locations (while being a credible and realistic means of telling the story) does get a little dull at times - if the feature had been fifteen minutes shorter, the structure would have been far more taut and exciting, while the lack of any real gore or shockingly violent scenes ultimately mean that the film... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Robert Fuest DVD Release Date: Released the 21 May 2002 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Mark Lester, the androgynous waif of Oliver!, starred in five films in 1970-71, when he was just at the cusp of adolescence, young enough so that he was still bewildered by the adult world, but old enough to take an active role in its events. Here he plays Ziggy, an exuberant 12-year old prone to fanciful stories, who sees the assassination of a visiting African dignitary but can't get anyone to believe him -- even when the local police force, which is in on the plot, starts trying to kill him.
The story is subsidiary to the array of quirky characters, including Mark's Carnaby Street-mod older sister, the blond hippie Adonis she hooks up with (and who never treats her as anything but a friend), Mark's eccentric grandfather (who runs the local lighthouse), and the shrill, suspicious... More Info about this DVD Director(s): John Hough DVD Release Date: Released the 21 May 2002 Special Order
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Sexy Susan George (Straw Dogs) pouts and peers from wounded eyes like a B-movie Julie Christie as Marianne, a go-go-dancing free spirit on the run from her lordly father, a defrocked magistrate enigmatically called the Judge (Leo Genn), and her psychotic half-sister. It seems our shapely sweetheart has something everybody wants, namely incriminating files and a small fortune in ill-gotten gains left by her light-fingered mum in a Swiss bank to be handed over on her 21st birthday. A little conspiratorial conniving brings Marianne back to the Judge's seaside estate to await her inheritance, and the blood sport begins.
Handsomely shot in the lofts of swinging London and on the sunny coast of Portugal by future British goremeister Pete Walker, this is a competently made little... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Pete Walker DVD Release Date: Released the 20 February 2001 Usually ships within 2 to 3 days
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The gothic horror of Hammer Films gets a mod update in this interesting curio, directed by the erratic Peter Collinson (The Italian Job). Rita Tushingham is a Liverpool girl, slightly soft in the head, who travels to London determined to get pregnant. Unfortunately (or perhaps not), she meets a blond psycho (Shane Briant), who installs her in his mod '60s pad--he calls himself "Peter" and her "Wendy," sustaining the Peter Pan theme of the title. The ideas here seem borrowed from those key British thrillers Peeping Tom and The Collector, and the editing style is clearly influenced by the disorientation of Performance. And yet there's something out of control about this picture, something authentically weird. In one scene Tushingham pretties herself up in what... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Peter Collinson DVD Release Date: Released the 23 July 2002 Special Order
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There's a killer on the loose who's murdering and mutilating beautiful young college girls, and there's no shortage of suspects. Four comely coeds decide to escape the madness by vacationing in an isolated country villa, but the maniac has his eye on them--one of them suspects his identity--and drops in for a homicidal holiday. With a title like Torso you know what you're getting, but despite the high body count and the suggestion of dismemberment, most of the gore in this Italian giallo is offscreen... with a few exceptions (an icky eye gouging stands out). Director Sergio Martino is no Dario Argento and the film is blunt, direct, and vicious, as can be seen when the killer disposes of a witness by ramming his skull into a brick wall with his car, not once but twice (with... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Sergio Martino DVD Release Date: Released the 21 March 2000 Usually ships within 24 hours
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