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

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A religious sect and an abusive mother creating a Norman Bates psychopath exacting the wrath of God on all sinners (mostly half naked women). 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 solitude has destroyed Kenny's perspective on normality, with his need to spread the good word turned into serial killing, unable to deal with the sin 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… Films are releasing Beware My Brethren aka The Fiend on blu-ray later this month. This release has also had a new restoration so it should be the best version yet.

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. beyond. Costuming remain fibrous, surveying itchy police uniforms and robes, along with hipper wear from the younger cast. Evil activities also Also included is a booklet with two essays about the film. Jon Dear’s The Fiend and the Flesh examines some the possible inspirations for the film in real life cases of crime and religious cults. Andrew Graves’ UK Grime Scene attempts to contextualise Brethren’s place in the world of 1970s British horror. The always erudite Flipside maestro Vic Pratt contributes an excellent video overview on Hartford-Davis’ career and the film itself in the One Moment in Time (23 minutes). Film historian Melanie Williams offers a pleasing overview of Ann Todd’s career in the A Woman on A Mission (17 minutes). An original cinema trailer and a comparison of the UK cinema and uncut international versions of the film round up the extras. Scene Comparison (5:49, HD) offers a side-by-side look at the UK Cinema Version of "Beware My Brethren," and the UncutThe AVC encoded image (1.85:1 aspect ratio) presentation offers a healthy amount of detail to help viewers immerse themselves in this distinctly The scene of the murder whilst dressed as a cop, I do imagine was a little controversial during the period. cinematography reinforces the television ambiance of the effort, which doesn't favor dark twists and turns, but melodrama is periodically broken up by for Birdy, but "Beware The Brethren" resembles the work of Pete Walker too closely, who also had trouble going bananas with potentially lurid material,

Is this one of the horror films you have been waiting for on blu-ray? Will you be buying this 88 Films release? 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. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. SPECIAL FEATURES
• INCLUDES FIRST PRESSING MATTE LAMINATE SLIPCASE with NEW ARTWORK BY SIMON PRITCHARD satisfaction, Dialogue exchanges have moments of harshness due to age, but intelligibility is never challenged, finding room for hushed exchanges and

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. Beware My Brethren Blu-ray delivers stunning video and great audio in this excellent Blu-ray release 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! Die Atmosphäre des langsam dahinköchelnden klerikalen Wahnsinns, die Aussichtslosigkeit eines Entkommens, die sich brutal entladenen Morde und ein erbarmungslos kreuzigendes Ende finden (für die richtige Zielgruppe) auch heute noch ihre Wirkung. Has a few good points about religion and hypocricy but they're pretty same old, same old, and the movie goes on about them FOEVER or at least, it felt like it. Opening scene is really the best part of the entire movie. This is #123 of my 70s horror list.

damnation just don't have the punch they should, with most of "Beware My Brethren" coming across as a television movie that's occasionally 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… 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…”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 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 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.

Records the default button state of the corresponding category & the status of CCPA. It works only in coordination with the primary cookie. 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. Repressive English religious cult member kills sinners (or sexual active females), as he is combating the urge of sexual desire. Nothing new or groundbreaking but a very British and very early 70s, enjoyable gutter horror. There is certainly a fine opening scene where scenes of a girl being pursued, strangled and drowned, which is intercut with a baptism and a singer singing a hymn, where Robert Hartford-Davies cuts at appropriate points between lines like “With His blood, set me free … I know what my punishment must be/I have sinned with my every breath and my punishment must be death … And I know with my death I’ll be free.” scenes of murder and holy manipulation, but it takes a long time to get anywhere of note in the picture. Director Robert Hartford-Davis andThe 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. 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