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

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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

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. 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, aclassic 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

Beware My Brethren Blu-ray delivers stunning video and great audio in this excellent Blu-ray release The 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. 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. 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. 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.Beware My Brethren" does open unexpectedly, which certainly helps to launch the picture with a great deal of promise. Entering the Brethren This listing is for the standard edition Blu-ray/DVD combo. The limited edition slipcover (designed by Earl Kess) was limited to 1,500 units and is sold out. The two versions are identical, aside from the slipcover. 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…” 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.

Scene Comparison (5:49, HD) offers a side-by-side look at the UK Cinema Version of "Beware My Brethren," and the Uncut for Birdy, but "Beware The Brethren" resembles the work of Pete Walker too closely, who also had trouble going bananas with potentially lurid material,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. 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. 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 church and a citywide sprint from Kenny's latest victim, generating some tension as death draws near. It's a weird opening, but sadly, it's the last

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. 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. Cooper, Ian (2016). Frightmares: A History of British Horror Cinema. Studying British Cinema. Auteur Publishing. p.128. ISBN 978-0993071737. scenes of murder and holy manipulation, but it takes a long time to get anywhere of note in the picture. Director Robert Hartford-Davis 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. damnation just don't have the punch they should, with most of "Beware My Brethren" coming across as a television movie that's occasionally violent ways from Kenny. There's something there with all the religious puppetry, along with flashes of journalistic interest in the cult and medical help