description: Girl, 'daughter', 'son', real daughter, mom, dad, torture, happy family, be a family,
(Geoffrey): (rating 8)
Suppose you have a daught with both mental and physical disabilities and can only act as a plant in a wheelchair. That's very hard for the mother and father. If you got a mentally disturbed father who wants to have a normal family, what do you do? Well, you 'kidnap' children en start to mentally and physically torture them, until they act as your own adorable children.
That's a little bit what this movie is all about. Though the story isn't very great, I find acting of some of the family people good. This could mean overacting, or 'natural'. Quite a low budget movie from the UK, but it could be worse.
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Taking family values to the next level
Links: AFFF / imdb
One of the first Microwave feature films funded by Film London and the UK Film Council. Possibly something that I could be doing a couple of years down the line! :-)
Definitely English. Good character building and fine casting to go with this. That is the main appeal of the film, the plot is not that fascinating and/or original.
Rating: 6
Links: AFFF / imdb
One of the first Microwave feature films funded by Film London and the UK Film Council. Possibly something that I could be doing a couple of years down the line! :-)
Definitely English. Good character building and fine casting to go with this. That is the main appeal of the film, the plot is not that fascinating and/or original.
Rating: 6
torture, mutilation: it's all in the family, really
Links: AFFF / imdb
It's clear what the writers had in mind: take common family values like "respect your parents", "do your chores" etc, and take this to the extreme. So Dad has a slaughterroom in which he likes to chop you up if you don't listen to him, mum loves carving skin ("beautiful, like spiderwebs"), they randomly kill people or merely mutilate them horribly. When you would read the dialogues without (description of) the images, it could be any bit-oldfashioned family.
The idea is well-executed, the story and film are amusing enough to keep you watching, but I don't consider it a gem. No big flaws, but no truly impressive aspects either.
Rating: 7
Links: AFFF / imdb
It's clear what the writers had in mind: take common family values like "respect your parents", "do your chores" etc, and take this to the extreme. So Dad has a slaughterroom in which he likes to chop you up if you don't listen to him, mum loves carving skin ("beautiful, like spiderwebs"), they randomly kill people or merely mutilate them horribly. When you would read the dialogues without (description of) the images, it could be any bit-oldfashioned family.
The idea is well-executed, the story and film are amusing enough to keep you watching, but I don't consider it a gem. No big flaws, but no truly impressive aspects either.
Rating: 7