Yet another good friend killed by the auspices of KUNG-FU TREACHERY!
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Minor spoilers. What starts out as a kooky black comedy takes a flip half way through and becomes a dark thriller. Jonathan Demme's best film (better than Silence Of The Lambs) is an absolute gem with a great soundtrack, performances (Melanie Griffith in an early role before she lost the plot, Jeff Daniels in his everyman guise and Ray Liotta in psycho mode) and location shooting. I haven't seen this for a few years either. It rarely get's an airing on T.V. I will have to pick it up on DVD sometime. |
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It is quite rightly ridiculous that a film about necrophilia can be so damn intelligent, heart breaking and sensitive. Despite it's ridiculous low budget, this film manages to straddle (pardon the pun) the fine line between exploitation and art whilst offering up an original take on a taboo subject. Despite the seemingly lurid subject matter, it is all tastefully done and made with articulation and obvious bravado. Definitely a film that deserves a wider audience as anyone who has seen it whether film critic or film fan alike are all in agreement that it is a competently made film that approaches it's subject matter with sensitivity and a certain pathos. |
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^I remember seeing that film somewhere in the late 80s on VHS with a bunch of friends and not once since then. Wow, long time...
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I have to say that Early Doors is one of my favourite cult TV shows. http://sharetv.org/images/early_doors_uk-show.jpg That never really caught on to a mainstream audience at all, and it should have. The Royle Family did, and in my eyes Early Doors had a huge audience just waiting to fall in love with it, and most of them probably never even saw it. |
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If you want cult British TV comedy they don't come much more cult like than Nathan Barley.
Or Chris Morris's sketch show Jam. I can count on one hand how many people I know who saw those, which is a shame because they were both genius. |
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And talking of dark British comedy, anyone mentioned Monkey Dust in this thread yet? Dunno if it counts as a cult show or not, but there's another one I was a huge fan of. ^ One of the old gems. |
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