Beware My Brethren [Region B] [Blu-ray]

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This blu-ray has had a “2K Remaster from the Original Negative”. It also includes a booklet and a matte laminate slipcase. of the churchgoers. While there's no choreography, Hartford-Davis stages the moment like a musical number, cutting between the performance in the scenes of murder and holy manipulation, but it takes a long time to get anywhere of note in the picture. Director Robert Hartford-Davis and damnation just don't have the punch they should, with most of "Beware My Brethren" coming across as a television movie that's occasionally

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. 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. 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. 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 following scene where Quinlan's body is discovered in cement, is different in the two versions. The BBC version represents this scene with two shots of nudity (the actress obviously found it hard to hold her breath). The Derann version represents it with an odd, (still photograph?) close-up on the girl's face.

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for Birdy, but "Beware The Brethren" resembles the work of Pete Walker too closely, who also had trouble going bananas with potentially lurid material, Kenny descends into a frenzy of killing. One day at the pool, he is outraged when a young woman removes her bikini top and later follows her home to exact retribution for her Godless ways. While on his nocturnal beat he stumbles across a prostitute servicing a client, and she too is brutally despatched. Naked female bodies turn up across London in bizarre circumstances, dropping out of a cement mixer or dangling from a meat hook. In some ways Brethren is a companion piece or extension to the bleak yet crude Corruption. Hartford-Davis and scriptwriter Brian Comport evidently wanted to comment on the repression and control of organised religion but this becomes lost in the need to titillate the movie goer with topless female victims. This lessens the impact and tension of the story. However, the production design and cinematography do a tremendous amount of work in lifting the on screen value and some images linger in the mind, such as the women’s corpse found hidden in cement, and the climatic crucifixion of Magee’s character. 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 A delightfully sleazy film which rarely falls into tedium, keeping up the frenzy and the tastelessness to the bitter end. A great double feature would be The Playbirds (1978), another British sleaze-fest which featured a serial killer inspired by lunatic religious beliefs.

The version broadcast on the BBC (22.09.01) is uncensored and thus different to the cut version that played British cinemas (in 1971) and the identical Derann tape release that appeared in 1981. The Fiend as originally released runs for 98 minutes, but an edited version of 87 minutes (removing most of its more graphic content) was produced for the American market. The film was released on DVD in 2005; however the DVD uses the cut version. 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 Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. British production. Set decoration is open for study, moving from the Brethren church to more domestic surroundings, offering a look at home life and

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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. A new religious cult has taken over the church, and all hell is unleashed on the unsuspecting community & congregation, as a psychopath seeks his own interpretation of the Lord's vengeance! 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 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