| Author | Message | ||
     Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
It's a Region 0 NTSC pirate DVD but I obviously can't give it to the charity shop. If you want it, speak up and it's yours! | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
I don't think I can play Region 0 (or can I?) otherwise I'd say "Me, me, me, please...". Haven't seen that film in many years and always found it particularly haunting. Used to be on the telly all the time in the 80s. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.55 |
I've never heard of it... | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
Oooh, me, me, me! I'd love to see this. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Come to think of it, UWZ was a clever reworking of the 'Harvest Home'/'Wicker Man' theme, with the classroom as "sinister community" and the "unwitting intruder" their new teacher. Great stuff! | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
OK, it's yours, Zed! Send me your address on FB and I'll post it out to you. Watch for a cameo by PBoH!  Stevie: We thought it had a lot of promise and nice atmosphere for the first 3/4 or so but then it didn't seem to know how to end. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
'tis done! Thanks, Kate - you're a gem.  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
It must be well over 20 years since I've seen it but I always remember getting a lovely frisson of dread from the final scene... and it had that great early 70s Brit-horror atmosphere and David Hemmings in one of his most sympathetic roles. I'm sure it'll become available eventually. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.180.45.171 |
D'oh - too late! I really like this - strange film, not often on TV either; if it is, it's normally very late and out of the way. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Oooo, I love this film. Haven't seen it in years. David Hemmings, right? And that guy who played the creepy kid. Terrifying rape scene in the gym. But I can't play Region 0 either and it's already gone ...  | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Ooops, sorry, hadn't read Stevie's post before I posted.  | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
Heh heh... Zed, you can burn and sell more copies now. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.122.209.76 |
But I can't play Region 0 either and it's already gone Er...Region 0 means it's playable on ANY DVD player! | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
Oh bugger! | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
I chose not to mention that, Lord P, to ensure that I snagged the swag.  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
Er...Region 0 means it's playable on ANY DVD player! Shows you what I know lol. Still, it is a great film and one I had completely forgotten until this thread brought it right back into my consciousness... I've just realised that the rape scene, and what leads up to it, gives the film echoes of a somewhat more refined 'Straw Dogs', yet a little research has told me it was scripted first as a BBC drama in the 60s! | ||
| Kate (Kathleen) Username: Kathleen Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 86.142.147.219 |
SPOILER Except she wasn't actually raped, if you recall. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Hence the "somewhat more refined" lol. You know it may even be closer to 30 years since I last saw that movie! I do remember it very fondly and specifically recall the powerful sense of menace it built up - akin to 'Straw Dogs'. |