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Twisted Nerve [DVD] [1968]

DVD ~ Hayley Mills
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  • Actors: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Billie Whitelaw, Phyllis Calvert, Frank Finlay
  • Directors: Roy Boulting
  • Writers: Roy Boulting, Jeremy Scott, Leo Marks, Roger Marshall
  • Producers: Frank Granat, George W. George, John Boulting
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 4 Jun 2007
  • Run Time: 112 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000NQRE4Q
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,721 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Martin can be very good but when he's bad he becomes a child with the mind of a psychopath. He's already killed his stepfather and his landlady and now he's after Susan...

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars "Georgie Likes Ducks..", 1 Jun 2009
By Paul Ess. (Holywell, N.Wales,UK.) - See all my reviews
Early slasher from the normally staid and respectable Boulting Brothers has Hayley Mills in all kinds of peril from the seriously loonie Hywell Bennett.
'Twisted Nerve' is a nasty film even by my standards; despite a pre-credits disclaimer that it is in no way suggesting that mongolism is connected with psychotic or criminal behaviour - it proceeds to do just that. Bennett just luurrves to stab his step-father in the stomach with a scissors and bash his horny landlady in the face with an axe and his only motivation is a gnarled chromosome.

He flits from character to character; one is a child called Georgie and the other is a confrontational, intelligent spoilt-boy: Martin.
Both are highly dangerous and both have the red-hots for the rather fetching miss Mills.

The rest of the cast support superbly: Barry (Bob Rusk) Foster plays a racist, sexist, drunken lodger; Billie Whitelaw is the ever-ready landlady and Timothy West excels as a wily, droll police inspector. Each lends the movie extra worth and rising even though it rarely needs it; West is a particular joy.

A clue as to the true nature of 'Twisted Nerve' comes with the discovery of Leo Marks as the script-writer: this is the guy that wrote 'Peeping Tom' for Michael Powell and it's no great leap from there to here. The similarities are obvious but no less interesting, only here it's a genetic defect that's the real villain rather than systematic patriarchal mental abuse, but the resulting psychosis are pretty much the same - as are their outcomes.

Special mention to Bernard Herrmann's annoyingly appropriate theme music which is everywhere in the film: characters whistle it, it plays on the radio and while the 'kids' are getting on down at a party - guess what's spinning on the stereogram?

'Twisted Nerve' is a disturbing thriller with handsomely offensive overtones: a poem with lines like: 'a ganglion gone awry' is quoted as an explanation for mass-murder and mental illness is nonchalantly described as 'abnormal'; the science world has a breath-taking theory that a twisted nerve 'predestinates the sinner or the saint' and the always reliably sensitive police bark out phrases like: "watch your step - this chap's a nutter!".

This is what happens when people who just don't do this stuff - do this stuff.
Mills is desperately trying to shake her child-star/Disney reputation and the Boultings were usually to be seen making typically resolute British fayre like 'Lucky Jim', 'I'm Alright Jack' and 'Carlton Browne of the F.O.' It's probably the sheer scale of this departure that makes brutal-but-precise film-making like 'Twisted Nerve' appear so other-wordly and oddly attractive.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning Quality, 4 Jun 2009
By Archie (London) - See all my reviews
I remembered this film from its first release, but not the furore of critiscism that accomapnied it. That all seems quaint now, even though the idea at the core of the story is indeed ludicrous. This is a suberb transfer visually, on my 1080 screen it looks as good as Blu-ray. It is also fascinating to see Twickenham library and the suburban streets of west London in their shining late 1960's glory (if that is the word), as well as Hayley Mills and Hwyel Bennet equally glorious. We should not forget the jaunty theme and iconic score by the great Bernard Herrmann too.
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2 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars scary movie, 22 Mar 2009
I've always liked hayley Mills.....this really scared me when i first saw it.. back in a time when the world was a much better place
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