percy toboggan
18-Jan-09, 16:48
....blimey! I watched the first twenty minutes of this on Film 4 last night..the disc recorder device was whirring so I hi-tailed off to bed. I need to watch this with my wife - she loves a good, twisty, unnerving yarn. And, I was getting shivers in places that don't normally shiver.
It has the makings of a trial by telly!...a pleasant family of three - mothered by the spiffing Naomi Watts and fathered by Tim Roth arrive, happily singing and smiling at their weekend home...I'd guess north of New York but dunno....it's a grand palce and they're pulling a trailer behind their Range Rover with a boat on it....swines!
They get an unusually muted response from neighbours...who can barely summon a wave, much less a cheery word...they appear to have 'guests' in the shape of two young men...non-threatening characters...or so it seems.
Soon enough one of these bods is knocking at Naomi's door to borrow eggs.....yes eggs...hens eggs..nothing uvf about this scenario...unless it's ultra very fearful. Because before we know it he's (unbeknowingly to Naomi) taken a golf club ( a good un - Calloway I think) to the Red Setter and things start to go downhill fast! He spills the eggs in the hallway and after she cleans them up he then demands more....eggs. He's such a cheeky, increasingly impolite person she feels uncomfy..as one would. I'd not have given him eggs in the first place mind (but then, we have a 24 hours ASDA just up the road)
I'm off to watch the rest of it now and can say I feel just a little trepeditious. This movie was originally made in Germany, in German...it was considered so good a re-make in English was commisioned with the same Director.
Looks good...and having spent ten minutes on the treadmill, I feel justified in cracking open a 'Speckled Hen' ......in the spirit of the film of course (yolk)
(I wish there was a movie review section on this board)
It has the makings of a trial by telly!...a pleasant family of three - mothered by the spiffing Naomi Watts and fathered by Tim Roth arrive, happily singing and smiling at their weekend home...I'd guess north of New York but dunno....it's a grand palce and they're pulling a trailer behind their Range Rover with a boat on it....swines!
They get an unusually muted response from neighbours...who can barely summon a wave, much less a cheery word...they appear to have 'guests' in the shape of two young men...non-threatening characters...or so it seems.
Soon enough one of these bods is knocking at Naomi's door to borrow eggs.....yes eggs...hens eggs..nothing uvf about this scenario...unless it's ultra very fearful. Because before we know it he's (unbeknowingly to Naomi) taken a golf club ( a good un - Calloway I think) to the Red Setter and things start to go downhill fast! He spills the eggs in the hallway and after she cleans them up he then demands more....eggs. He's such a cheeky, increasingly impolite person she feels uncomfy..as one would. I'd not have given him eggs in the first place mind (but then, we have a 24 hours ASDA just up the road)
I'm off to watch the rest of it now and can say I feel just a little trepeditious. This movie was originally made in Germany, in German...it was considered so good a re-make in English was commisioned with the same Director.
Looks good...and having spent ten minutes on the treadmill, I feel justified in cracking open a 'Speckled Hen' ......in the spirit of the film of course (yolk)
(I wish there was a movie review section on this board)