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Pete Walker Collection (DVD)

Description: Genre: Horror / Theatrical Release: 1971 / Director: Pete Walker / Actors: Susan George, Sheila Keith ... / DVD ... more

Pete Walker Collection (DVD) ... released 21 March, 2005 at Starz Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Box set, PAL

Newest Review: ... running through it. It even looks good, avoiding the cheap, down-at-heel appearance of most of its contemporaries. There's ... more

... some nudity, but most of it is resolutely unglamorous, and the violence is convincing and unpleasant. It has a few regrettable aspects - it's a bit too long, and some of the character names are just silly (Mark E Dessart, for goodness sake). The acting for the most part is excellent. Only Penny Irving as Anne-Marie is a bit weak (a pity, since she's the main character - if she’d dropped the silly French accent she may have done better, and I think her hair is a wig). Barbara Markham as the prison governess is super...more

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Pete Walker Collection (DVD): Sinister old ladies, cannibalism, flagellation, nudity, sing ... (1533 words)
by hogsflesh - written on 14.06.05 (Very useful, 349 readings)
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Anchor Bay do these great box-sets of 60s and 70s English horror movies in cute little coffin-shaped boxes. The latest deals with the work of director Pete Walker, who made the last good British horror films. Originally a producer of the kind of soft core porn that was so ubiquitous in the 70s, Walker branched out into horror films to memorable effect, and three films he made from screenplays by David McGillivray (responsible for a lot of horror scripts that decade) are really the last flowering of the British horror cycle that Hammer started in the 50s. The first film in this set, Die Screaming Marianne, from 1971, isn't so great. Walker hadn't hit his ...

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