Valerie and her week of wonders

[BAN5HEE]

I was going through play's horror special and was interested in this movie. According to all the reviews in IMDB it's a great movie. Have any of you guys heard of it or seen it?

Link to dvd on play: http://play.com/play247.asp?pa=promo...2&title=172855

Link to reviews on IMDB: http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0066516/

Cheers!

[BAN5HEE]

Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?

[RunDMC]

Coincidentally ordered this yesterday, but out of stock at Play at the moment. Seems intriguing...

[BAN5HEE]

Cool! Let us know what you think about it once it arrives.

[RunDMC]

I watched this film a couple of days ago (Play have only just received new stock in).

Very unusual (though you may already have realised this), it is probably worth watching for the price, but I am not sure I would have relished paying any more for it.

The film transfer is not too bad and colours are pretty good for the age of the film. At some points there is obvious damage to the original, especially at the beginning. The film itself is in 4:3 aspect with mono sound. There are also some points where the editing is pretty annoyingly shoddy. Basically a no-frills affair.

The film itself is a little reminiscent of Hammer, however much, much trippier. I am not sure I fully understood it. It follows Valerie and her coming of age, whereby some characters around her turn out to be (or become) supernatural (e.g. it has vampiric/everlasting youth themes). Not sure what else to say without giving any spoilers, to me it was more of a collection of scenes rather than a lucid film, but a reasonable diversion for an hour and fifteen minutes.