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As a Prelude to Fear
UK 2022
produced by Steph Du Melo, Antony Meadley for MeloMedia Films
directed by Steph Du Melo
starring Francis Magee, Lara Lemon, Jamie Langlands, Lucy Drive, Roger Wyatt, Melissa Hollett, Kirsten Callaghan, Jacki Dacosta, Amy Sutton (= Amelia Armande), Ron McMillan, Nicola Boreham, Persia Williams, Ian Cumberland, Tom Clear, Owen Llewelyn, Kevin Farmer, Joseph Aspin, Catherine Meadley, Peter Rayfield, Peter Rayfield sr
written by Steph Du Melo, Roger Wyatt, music by Steph Du Melo
review by Mike Haberfelner
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All Eve (Lara Lemon) wanted was to get some special cello lessons from
Giles Corcoran (Roger Wyatt), said to be the best cello teacher in the
country - but on the way to his place she disappeared. It doesn't take
long for her disappearance to land on the dest of DCS Barnbrook (Francis
Magee) who investigated the disappearance of three cello hopefuls years
ago and had pretty much linked everything to Corcoran - but ultimately had
to let him go as while he had plenty of circumstantial evidence, he lacked
both a motive and any actual proof. Back when he was grilled by the
tabloids for not solving the case, so this time around he and his
second-in-command DS Dobson (Lucy Drive) pussyfoot around the case, trying
to make things stick before going to the press - much to the dismay of
Jamie (Jamie Langlands), who, dissatisfied with the police's work takes up
investigations of his own, without realizing he's into this way over his
head until it's much too late. Eve in the meanwhile is kept in a basement
where she's tortured and forced to play the cello, her only contact
besides her abductor being the woman next door (Melissa Hollett), who's
been a captive there for no less than 14 years. But Eve isn't one to give
up easily, and she tries whatever it takes to get out - sometimes with
horrible consequences ... In a way, this is a throwback to
serialkiller movies as they were quite popular in the 1990s, a
cat-and-mouse game with all the suspense, violence and shocks in all the
right places. And also, it's pretty much an actors' movie, and the
ensemble pretty much is first rate throughout. But what makes this more
than just another (however nicely done) genre pic is that its
well-structured story is designed to take one astray, and has a shock
ending at its tail end that one simply didn't see coming and that's very
effective all the same. So in all, just really fine genre entertainment
for sure.
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
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