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

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Beware My Brethren Blu-ray delivers stunning video and great audio in this excellent Blu-ray release 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. 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 ] 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.

This cookie, set by YouTube, registers a unique ID to store data on what videos from YouTube the user has seen. 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 scenes of murder and holy manipulation, but it takes a long time to get anywhere of note in the picture. Director Robert Hartford-Davis andsatisfaction, Dialogue exchanges have moments of harshness due to age, but intelligibility is never challenged, finding room for hushed exchanges and 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. The scene of the murder whilst dressed as a cop, I do imagine was a little controversial during the period.

for Birdy, but "Beware The Brethren" resembles the work of Pete Walker too closely, who also had trouble going bananas with potentially lurid material, 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. classic serial killer fashion, share a bit more mutual attraction than the average family bond. The picture doesn't develop it, but a dash of incest Vinegar Syndrome (Blu-ray & DVD) (US R0 HD/NTSC), Odeon (DVD) (UK R0 PAL), Image (US R1 NTSC) / WS (1.78:1) (16:9) 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.

period hues and outdoor activities, which maintain appealing greenery. Delineation is acceptable, preserving frame information. Grain is fine and filmic. Cooper, Ian (2016). Frightmares: A History of British Horror Cinema. Studying British Cinema. Auteur Publishing. p.128. ISBN 978-0993071737. 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 beyond. Costuming remain fibrous, surveying itchy police uniforms and robes, along with hipper wear from the younger cast. Evil activities also