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Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008
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| | Posted on Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 10:16 pm: | |
“I look forward to defiling your corpse!”
Has anyone else seen this ridiculous and quite deliriously entertaining film?
Some movies are made with such a sense of cheerful optimism, such a sense of joy at their very creation, that their lack of budget and utterly perverted subject matter only add to their charm. I caught up with this movie this evening and it reminded me of a cross between a Derek Jarman movie if Jarman had been heterosexual and a Jess Franco movie if Franco was British, insane and obsessed with sex.
Pervirella is the follow up to the same team’s ‘The Perv Parlour’ (anyone else but me seen that? Thought not ;->) and once again follows the exploits of Victorian gynaecologist Professor Rumphole Pump as he and his friends attempt to foil the evil Cult of Perv. The queen of the Cult gives birth to a girl who grows rapidly and voluptuously into Emily Booth, playing the Pervirella of the title, whose excessive nymphomanical tendencies can only be held in check by an amulet around her neck that keeps falling off, causing much naughtiness to ensue. The queen dies and her mantle is inherited by the evil Sexton Ming who wants Pervirella for his own evil ends (or rather end – there are an awful lot of puns in this film).
A fantastic tribute to the movies of Jess Franco, Terry Gilliam and John Waters amongst others this was a genuine surprise that kept on surprising me as I thrilled to some of the most ludicrous dialogue I've heard in years, David Warbeck’s army of ninjas, a dwarf with an exploding head, a giant wanking monster, Eileen Daly as the leader of a tribe of plant people who shares a lesbian scene with Emily Booth, a Cannibal Holocaust gag set in Australia(!), terrible yet wonderful special effects (aeroplanes are made from washing up bottles with visible wires) a plea from the director for someone called Sasha to give him his Sinbad videos back during the end titles and a fade out on: ‘We are sure no person living or dead will claim to have any resemblance to any of our characters’. Oh I loved it and I’m going to watch it again. |