House Of Mortal Sin

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Pete Walker’s House of Mortal Sin follows his familiar theme of institutional hypocrisy—using extortion, sexual perversion, and giallo-esque shock murders to lampoon the church like only Pete Walker can. Strand-on-the-Green in W4 with Kew Bridge crossing the River Thames in the background and a holder at Brentford Gasworks in the distance. Some of my favourite moments in these films are simple domestic scenes showing the colours and decor of the time - real nostalgia. org/wiki/Pete_Walker_(director) , he had made films that fell under various categories in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, frequently using the same cast of characters.

Meldrum uses his status and crazed persistence to work his way into Jenny's life by any means necessary. Meanwhile Jenny needs her flat keys back, so she goes to see Father Meldrum (alone, as you would), where he rather lets the cat out off the bag: "Are you afraid of the man who defiled you? She quickly leaves, but not before telling Meldrum that her on-off boyfriend Terry recently pressured her into having an abortion. Things come to a boil in the finale, a strange concoction that only Walker and McGillivray could pull off.He throws a pot of hot coffee in the face of Jenny's friend Bobby (John Yule), who he mistakes for Jenny's boyfriend, beats and burns Jenny's boyfriend Terry (Stuart Bevan) with a flaming incense burner and buries him in the church cemetery. This one's got a nice oversized region 2 art insert with lovely art on the other side that can't be seen through the neat black case. For some strange reason, I always thought this was an alternate title for House of Whipcord so I never bothered to seek it out.

At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her. The pair make a suicide pact so that they can be together for ever, but after Brabazon fatally stabs herself, Meldrum hesitates. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. A lapsed Catholic in real life, Walker uses the film as a comment on organized religion, as extreme and satirical as it may be…” ~ George R.

After an uncomfortable encounter at the confessional, she is subsequently harassed, intimidated and threatened with extortion. Meldrum arrives, strangles Vanessa, and at Brabazon's urging, murders his mother on the pretext of a mercy killing.

Pete Walker’s gory, violent horror in which a priest becomes obsessed with a girl that confesses to him and will stop at nothing to get her.We are aware that there are films on the site that were added when the criteria for the inclusion of locations was very different from today and, as a result, there may be scenes missing from some productions. Hearing that her friend Bernard has become a Catholic priest, Jenny attends church to seek him out but finds that the man taking confession is not Bernard, but the elderly Father Meldrum.