January 2, 2008
Polyanna got hot in this awesome little British thriller/character study about a Scitzophrantic socio-path.
Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw, Christian Roberts
Martin is a troubled young man. With a mother who insists on treating him like a child, a stepfather who can't wait to see the back of him, and a mongoliod brother shut away in an institution, is it a...( read more
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October 31, 2007A justly reviled British psycho-thriller which compounds its already objectionable premise, that a man whose brother has Down's Syndrome is predisposed to murderous insanity, by having the killer feign learning difficulties to cover his crimes. A good cast and a Bernard Herrman s...( read more)
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April 17, 2009A rather surprising film. I am not sure why, but I expected more killings. I enjoyed this film tremendously still, the lead character was very interesting to study, his bizarre and confounded sense of his sexuality and his mentality is just so vague and yet, so rich that it allow...( read more)
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October 6, 2008If you ever wondered what the song Daryl Hannah was whistling in Kill Bill was it's the theme to this movie..and you get in numerous renditions including one you can dance to. Would be a little better if it didn't have to disclaim it's plot hole about mongolism @ the beginning
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June 16, 2007Hugely underrated late 60's Brit psycho thriller influenced by Psycho's cloying mother figure and troubled son, Peeping Tom's rich colour scheme and Hammer's Straight On Til Morning. Hywel Bennett is magnificent as the distrurbed Martin in a part he could easily have overplayed....( read more)
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