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     John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.131.0.116 |
I'm sure I posted something about this film the first time I watched it a couple of years ago but despite my best efforts to search the new & old boards I couldn't find it. Anyway, We watched this again last night & I liked it a lot more this time around. In fact it feels like prime material for at least some of the members of this board. I spotted the influences of Lovecraft, Ligotti, Leiber and of course Mr Campbell himself in this uneven but interesting is-it-all-because-he's-stopped-his-Prozac-or-not? tale of a TV cameraman who descends to 'The Depths' and quite probably never comes back. It's not entirely successful by any means, and there are whole sequences where my attention started to wander but it's still a very interesting film and well worth a look by fans of any of the above authors. I thought it was all his own madness, btw (ie he reached the 'Mountain of his own Madness' early on). Anyone else have any other interpretations? | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.17.252.126 |
I've had the DVD for some time but not got round to watching it yet. I'll make it the "recent" third of my next horror triple bill.  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.253.77 |
Brilliant film - I raved about this on here a few years ago. My reading of the film is that the guy's slowly cracking up, too, John. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
A masterwork. I can't believe how good it is. There are no flaws as far as I'm concerned. ***SPOILER*** One possible reading is that the girl is in fact his daughter | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.131.0.116 |
Hubert - that's what I thought, and that possibly he'd found her drugged out in a backstreet and taken her home but seen it all differently. I also wondered if perhaps he had spent the entirety of the film living in that cardboard box we see him crawling out of at one point (a bit like someone once suggested about John Horridge in Ramsey's Face thet Must Die) | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
Another interesting take which hadn't crossed my mind. But then how would you explain his apartment and (perhaps more to the point) all those electronic devices? | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.131.0.116 |
Extensions of his own diseased mind / imagination? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.237.21 |
And the dark stranger in the raincoat could be the voice of his conscience. |