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Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story
TWISTED NERVE DVD Delivers Chills, Thrills
Posted by Peter Martin at 8:00pm.
Posted in DVD News , Cult, UK, Ireland, Australia & New Zealand.
I wrote about this weird, cool little 1968 film just before the long-awaited PAL Region 2 DVD was released by Optimum Releasing. I ordered up my own copy to see what it looked like on DVD. If you’ve seen the film before but have wondered whether the disk is worth the coin, in my opinion it’s a no-brainer. Granted, I only have a 26-inch HD screen and I’m not a bonafide videophile, but the picture looks very good to me, the mono audio track sounds clean, and it was a revelation to see it look so good.
A third viewing has convinced me that Twisted Nerve is more than a campy pleasure. Sure, it takes discredited psychological hogwash too seriously, but dang! Hayley Mills is scrumptious and Hywel Bennett suitably creepy. From a filmmaking standpoint, the Boulting Brothers do a lot on a tiny budget, including creative framing of shots, pushing or slowing the pace, and the jumpy editing. If you need a final shove, it’s been certified as “suitable only for persons 18 years and over,” which is probably too restrictive, but there’s a non-explicit scene near the end that really surprised me.
Did I mention the whistled Bernard Hermann theme song, which gets in your head and never ever leaves?
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Blake 07/28/2007 @ 8:44pm
And makes a great double feature perhaps with The Living and the Dead. Can’t wait to watch both those films back to back to contrast the lead actor performances. I’m curious which other Boulting Brothers film to go back and watch.
In browsing some of the onset photography, there was certainly love in the air between Mills and…