cinematography reinforces the television ambiance of the effort, which doesn't favor dark twists and turns, but melodrama is periodically broken up by It's not the most polished of films, but the directing is pretty good and the acting pretty solid throughout - with a convincing enough ratio of ham, menace and believability - with the script and storyline excellent. Overall the results, particularly when taking the fairly small budget into consideration, really are very, very good indeed. Which is why I honestly think this film was years ahead of it's time.

Birdy (Ann Todd) is a widow who's granted access to the Brethren, an Evangelical cult, to build a church inside her house. She's a devout believer, a Beware My Brethren Blu-ray delivers stunning video and great audio in this excellent Blu-ray release In some ways Brethren is a companion piece or extension to the bleak yet crude Corruption… The film is as equally interesting as any of Pete Walker’s kitchen sink horror and could have easily have been directed by him. In some ways it is a forerunner to Walker’s output such as The House of Mortal Sin…” Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray.com wrote that the film "begins with a blast, but soon settles into a series of tedious encounters and dull supporting characters", and that it "[comes] across as a television movie that's occasionally interrupted by scenes of violence and nudity." [2] Home media [ edit ] The AVC encoded image (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation offers a healthy amount of detail to help viewers immerse themselves in this distinctly

Vinegar Syndrome (Blu-ray & DVD) (US R0 HD/NTSC), Odeon (DVD) (UK R0 PAL), Image (US R1 NTSC) / WS (1.78:1) (16:9) This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray/DVD combo. The limited edition slipcover (designed by Earl Kess) was limited to 1,500 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover. It's that old nutshell of the mother love plot mixed with religious extremism and a ton of symbolism with something to offend the few people who will probably see this film. we open with a church service and a very upbeat Christian song that sounds like it could make the pop charts, and then we see the son of the church's organist going out and killing women he considers unworthy of Christ's grace. Mom has a breakdown then confesses to the Reverend, Reverend punishes mom, and son pays for his sins. Is this one of the horror films you have been waiting for on blu-ray? Will you be buying this 88 Films release?

The film opens with shots of a terrified young woman in a mini skirt fleeing for her life along a riverbank, interspersed with scenes of a Brethren baptism service in full swing complete with gospel-style music and the congregation working itself into a religious frenzy. The girl is finally cornered by her unseen pursuer, strangled, stripped naked and thrown into the river at the same time as a boy is symbolically submerged during the baptism service. For its original UK cinema release the film was heavily cut by the BBFC with edits to the murder scenes (the torch murder and the strangling/stripping), shots of a girl's body on a meat hook, and the sequence where Kenny listens to the taped pleadings of his victims. The uncut version was once shown on BBC1 though later showings used an edited print. The 2010 Odeon DVD features the fully uncut version.Having recently bought a copy of the 2010 release of this lost gem, finally available fully uncut and beautifully presented in anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1 - Odeon Entertainmant ODNF162 - I can't recommend it enough. Taking into consideration the very strict censorship laws and general climate the time of it's production, it's easy to see why it was butchered and suppressed at the time of it's initial release in 1972, the Mary Whitehouse brigade would have soiled themselves collectively at the subject matter alone. And the murder scenes, whilst fairly tame compared to some in todays more enlightened times, were way out there for early 70's Britain.

of the churchgoers. While there's no choreography, Hartford-Davis stages the moment like a musical number, cutting between the performance in the Beware My Brethren" does open unexpectedly, which certainly helps to launch the picture with a great deal of promise. Entering the Brethrenfor Birdy, but "Beware The Brethren" resembles the work of Pete Walker too closely, who also had trouble going bananas with potentially lurid material, The 1.0 DTS-HD MA sound mix gets off to an active start, with the opening scene collecting group participation in the church before slipping into a Religious fury is slowly unfurled in 1972's "Beware My Brethren" (aka "The Fiend"), a British production that's endeavoring to wind itself up with Beware The Brethren" begins with a blast, but soon settles into a series of tedious encounters and dull supporting characters. It all plays flatly, while

damnation just don't have the punch they should, with most of "Beware My Brethren" coming across as a television movie that's occasionally Alas, the rest of the film is never so charged and emerges as tame – certainly, there is none of the sadism and nastiness that there is in Pete Walker’s films. As the psycho film it is sold as, The Fiend is relatively disappointing. Robert Hartford-Davies seems more interested in the sexploitation element – having numerous topless female victims running around – than he ever does in generating tension. The last difference is to the 'meat-hook scene' where one of Kenny's victims (Suzanna East) initially drowned is discovered hanging on a meat hook. Both versions play the discovery slightly different, the Derann version includes a brief shot of the girl on the meat hook as well as a second shot that zooms in on the dead girls face. The BBC version begins with an additional long shot of the dead girl, and ends on a second shot, that's actually the first shot we see of the body in the Derann version but is more drawn out. The zoom shot from the Derann version isn't included in the BBC version. Repressive English religious cult member kills sinners (or sexual active females), as he is combating the urge of sexual desire. Nothing new or groundbreaking but a very British and very early 70s, enjoyable gutter horror.

This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. Cooper, Ian (2016). Frightmares: A History of British Horror Cinema. Studying British Cinema. Auteur Publishing. p.128. ISBN 978-0993071737. solitude has destroyed Kenny's perspective on normality, with his need to spread the good word turned into serial killing, unable to deal with the sin Films are releasing Beware My Brethren aka The Fiend on blu-ray later this month. This release has also had a new restoration so it should be the best version yet. British production. Set decoration is open for study, moving from the Brethren church to more domestic surroundings, offering a look at home life and