Synopsis
If you look in the basement...be prepared to SCREAM!
A British family takes revenge into its own hands in avenging their recently slain daughter.
Revenge
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Inn of the Frightened People, Terror from Under the House, Behind the Cellar Door, After Jenny Died, Violence en sous-sol, El sótano, Il passo dell'assassino, Violence en Sous-Sol, Revenge – Eine gefährliche Affäre, Miedo sangriento, 리벤저
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26 Aug 1971
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A pub landlord who's daughter was raped and murdered is frustrated at the slow police investigation , and decides to abduct and torture the suspect, in the hope of beating a confession out of him. Yes, it's 'Death Wish' meets 'Coronation Street' in this implausible but very entertaining slice of early 70s Brit schlock. The plot contrivances get increasingly ridiculous, but director Sidney Havers just about keeps the show on the road. This is one of the many horror /exploitation films Joan Collins appeared in during this period, long before her days as a soap superstar! She's pretty hot in this, as the landlords Wife who starts to develop an unhealthy interest in his handsome son, even as the abduction plot starts to go off the rails and descend into farce!
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This seems rather highly thought of around here, but I'm sorry to say I just didn't see it. Given its subject material, I was hoping for something like The Offence, but Revenge is a Peter Rogers production - one of a few thrillers he did as a sideline away from the Carry On films - and (rather like those other thrillers) was really disappointing for me.
The basic premise is great, it's just a shame that John Kruse's screenplay squanders it by having his protagonists behave in a manner that never rings true. This is a family whose youngest child has been abducted and murdered by a predatory paedophile yet, having returned from the funeral, they open the pub as…
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I am now a certified fan of forgotten director Sidney Havers. The three of his films I have seen (PAYROLL, BURN WITCH BURN, and now REVENGE) all have a distinctive quality: a setup featuring quiet, well-mannered Brits that devolves into complete hysteria. At time it's unnerving to watch (think QUATERMASS AND THE PIT), but you cannot tear your eyes away.
Too, the plots of these three films are all wonderfully batshit, but batshit in different and really interesting ways. Here the setup is a grieving family who have lost their young daughter, and man, you don't even know what's coming.
Recommended.
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Excellent little British gem about a family who kidnaps the kiddie fiddler who murdered their daughter and hide him away in the basement of their pub with the intent of taking their own revenge. Only, things are going to become more complicated than they expected when a series of twists and turns shake them at their core, challenging who they are and their relationships to each other.
Stellar piece of good old school thriller with unexpected curveballs thrown at the mix, and as the tension builds the whole thing starts to come apart. Joan Collins, James Booth and a sinister little plot-driven movie that kicks it out of the park.
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This was fucking awesome! I'm never short of amazed at the amount hidden gems that are out there - and half of them are just on YT somewhere for free!
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Revenge might be a dish best served cold, but does it need be so routine with it? Meat and two veg doesn’t begin to damn this situational piece with faint praise.
It takes a rare talent to be both shrieking and utilitarian, but Revenge achieves this with a flat-footed doggedness, reducing outburst of tawdriness into taupe-shaded humdrumery.
Paint it beige, it seems.
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An offbeat thriller with James Booth and Joan Collins as parents grieving for their murdered daughter, taking revenge on the man who had been accused of the crime and then freed.
Although it runs out of steam towards the end, this is a very well-written and acted piece which brings a lot of questions to life, namely 'what would you do'. Emotionally devastating and surprisingly free of violence and sleaze, this is worth the investment of time.
Also known as 'After Jenny Died', 'Behind the Cellar Door', 'Inn of the Frightened People' or 'Terror From Under The House'.
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Week 1: Jan. 1-Jan. 7
Elvira WeekThere are a small number of things I've seen in which the grief or intense shock of a bereaved character/s is not commensurate to the loss. Revenge now takes first place - or third place if I count that Robbie Parker press conference and the strange interview with the parents of Grace McDonnell.
So at the opening of the film the publican family's little girl has been abducted and murdered by a paedophile and on the way home from her funeral they're behaving as though they've just buried the cat. Then James Booth goes and opens the pub for evening licensing hours. I just don't get it.See also:
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The Chain 2021-22 #105 from Deadly Strangers via Sidney Hayers
Revenge is something of a spiritual successor to Assault, which was brought to us in the same year by the same year by the same writing, directing, and producing team of John Kruse, Sidney Hayers, and Peter Rogers (yes, that Peter Rogers).
While the story of Assault deals directly with an attack on first one schoolgirl, and then another, Revenge opens in the aftermath of a pair of young girls having been murdered, in fact we meet the family of one of the girls as they leave the funeral.
Almost immediately afterwards, the girl's father Jim (James Booth) learns from the other girl's father, that the man who had been…
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Venganza en familia sumamente accidentada y con varios giros.
Arranca y pensás que el mayor de sus problemas es matar y desaparecer el cuerpo del asesino de su hija. Bueno, no. -
Surprisingly, upon watching this, I found that I had never seen it before and that it was most enjoyable, if a little distasteful. The locations, shops and house and pub interiors are most evocative and if some are sets they are very good ones. Joan Collins is also surprisingly good but then she really only has to play at being a barmaid. Gripping from the start, this is a really well paced and intelligently told thriller. Things lurch a little two thirds in but by then we have bought into the rather lurid tale and it was always going to leave something of a bad taste anyway, with little girls being taken on their way to school, so what harm…
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I’ve long been a fan of Sidney Hayers work, he’s not a flashy Director and many would call him a journeyman but he’s effective at suspense working with the right material. Revenge is pretty dark for it’s time, inherent in the subject matter obviously. James Booth takes the weight of the film and Kenneth Griffith gives an almost silent performance as the object of Booth’s revenge. A little gem I think.