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

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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. The murder of the prostitute (Terry Quinlan) in toned down in the Derann version (she's beaten around the head off-screen). The BBC version however includes some nasty shots of Kenny ramming his torch into the girl's mouth. Her death from being beaten around the head is no longer shown totally off-screen in the BBC version either. Widow Birdy Wemys has become a devoted member of a fundamentalist fire-and-brimstone religious sect called "the Brethren", led by the charismatic Minister. Birdy has turned her sizeable home over to the Brethren for use as a church and a recruiting ground, and her son Kenny has also fallen under their spell. Kenny is a troubled individual, dominated by his overbearing mother, introverted and socially inept. He has taken the teachings of the Minister to heart, and feels repulsed by what he sees as sin, lust and temptation being openly flaunted by the young women he sees as he goes about his daily business. period hues and outdoor activities, which maintain appealing greenery. Delineation is acceptable, preserving frame information. Grain is fine and filmic.

A religious sect and an abusive mother creating a Norman Bates psychopath exacting the wrath of God on all sinners (mostly half naked women). Cooper, Ian (2016). Frightmares: A History of British Horror Cinema. Studying British Cinema. Auteur Publishing. p.128. ISBN 978-0993071737. The AVC encoded image (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation offers a healthy amount of detail to help viewers immerse themselves in this distinctly Orndorf, Brian (29 November 2018). "Beware My Brethren Blu-ray Review". Blu-ray.com . Retrieved 14 January 2020. Beware My Brethren" does open unexpectedly, which certainly helps to launch the picture with a great deal of promise. Entering the BrethrenThe 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 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. 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…” 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 British production. Set decoration is open for study, moving from the Brethren church to more domestic surroundings, offering a look at home life and

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. SPECIAL FEATURES
• INCLUDES FIRST PRESSING MATTE LAMINATE SLIPCASE with NEW ARTWORK BY SIMON PRITCHARD Now I did say that he stays away from the ladies, but that's not strictly true because he does have a bit of a mission to clear up the streets, you know the…for Birdy, but "Beware The Brethren" resembles the work of Pete Walker too closely, who also had trouble going bananas with potentially lurid material, The 1972 British horror feature, Beware My Brethren (The Fiend), directed by Robert Hartford-Davis (Corruption), unveils its strongest sequence right out of the starting gates by intercutting a ghastly strangling…

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 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. violent ways from Kenny. There's something there with all the religious puppetry, along with flashes of journalistic interest in the cult and medical helpVinegar Syndrome (Blu-ray & DVD) (US R0 HD/NTSC), Odeon (DVD) (UK R0 PAL), Image (US R1 NTSC) / WS (1.78:1) (16:9)