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42nd Street Freak · 02-02-2008, 06:28 AM

Fair enough Pat. Sorry.

I'm not cut out for the Internet me...

Anyway.
MARIO -

You mentioned Williams' accent in "Carry on Spying", that's actually his famous (infamous, as far as his removal from "Hancock's Half Hour" was concerned as Hancock considered it too broad a comedy idea) 'Snide' voice which he regularly used for silly characters.
It works in small amounts, but for me (especially when visuals are added) becomes far too trying when used for something that lasts 80 minutes.
Hence it as the first and last time Williams used it for a film...IN FACT it may have been the last time he ever used it.

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not least in the muted, dreary look (there’s very little use of the director’s trademark garish, albeit carefully-constructed, visuals here)!

And what a dire decision this is!
There's nothing remotely realistic about these 'Mothers' films and the extreme colour schemes help the disjointed, fairytale, plots work much better as the entire thing has an otherworldly sense of the absurd and the crazed about it that goes with the plots.
Twisted nightmare plots told in a twisted nightmare realm where colour streaks off the frame and the wailing cacophony of the damned blasts your ears.

He's not done an 'Argento' style supernatural film for about 20 years either!
Most people never got the chance to see "Suspiria" or "Inferno" on a big screen so this would have been the perfect chance to have that same kind of style on a cinema screen again for a new generation of fans.

For me a "Mothers" film has to have a certain style...

Oh well, I guess I'll give it a go, but a dark and drab looking, 3rd rate "Omen" score filled, finale to the "Three Mothers" is not what i for one wanted.

Non-love for the truly classic "Texas Chain Saw Massacre"?! Surely a sign of the apocalypse to come.
The twisted atmosphere, the dread that drenches every scene like a poisonous olde London smog, the feeling of impending doom, the perfectly designed sets, the blackly comic/perfectly honed Family dynamic, the superbly constructed shock scenes. Hell, the utterly sadistic, brutal, stunningly acted/edited/filmed/directed 'dinner' scene alone makes this an Exploitation cinema masterwork.