After watching the interesting,but heavy-going Strange Hostel Of Pleasures,I decided to pick out,what is meant to be the most "acsesable" entry in Anchor Bay's Coffin Joe Boxset.
The plot:
Feeling that her scientist husband (George/Jorge) never has any time for her,Rachel decides to start an affair with a co-worker of George/Jorge called Oliver.As the affair between the two really starts to heat up,Rachel and Oliver hatch a plan to murder her husband,so that Rachel can inherit all of his wealth.Catching George/Jorge alone in his lab,Rachel grabs a bottle of near by acid and pours it all over his face.After having almost killed her husband with the bottle of acid,Rachel gets Oliver to finish the job for her,by setting fire to the entire lab.Rushing off for their presumed life of pleasure,Oliver and Rachel make the terrible mistake of George/Jorge willpower.
View on the film:
Whilst I have found the subtitle work by Anchor Bay for the first two films that I viewed in the set to be very good,I have to say that for this one the quality of the subtitles took a noticeable drop,with the name of Rachel's husband (whose one of the lead characters!) constantly changing from Jorge to George,which I have to admit did pull me out of the film a little bit.From the opening scene of the film,I found it very easy to see that this is an entry in the Coffin Joe series which had some cash that could be splashed on the screen.For the look of the film,writer/director Jose Morjica Marins (who also gives a wonderful humbleness to his performance as Rachel's husband) gives the film a terrific style that got me to remember the Roald Dahl's Tale of The Unexpected TV series. (with the added bonus of the movies two lead actresses being naked in the film)One of the most interesting things that I found with this film was that although the characters are shown to wear stylish bright clothes for the whole film,Marnis makes sure that the brightness never stops him from delivering a weird take on Beauty and the Beast!.Although unlike the Disney version,this one contains a horrific eye scene,that caused my legs to twitch right away.
The plot:
Feeling that her scientist husband (George/Jorge) never has any time for her,Rachel decides to start an affair with a co-worker of George/Jorge called Oliver.As the affair between the two really starts to heat up,Rachel and Oliver hatch a plan to murder her husband,so that Rachel can inherit all of his wealth.Catching George/Jorge alone in his lab,Rachel grabs a bottle of near by acid and pours it all over his face.After having almost killed her husband with the bottle of acid,Rachel gets Oliver to finish the job for her,by setting fire to the entire lab.Rushing off for their presumed life of pleasure,Oliver and Rachel make the terrible mistake of George/Jorge willpower.
View on the film:
Whilst I have found the subtitle work by Anchor Bay for the first two films that I viewed in the set to be very good,I have to say that for this one the quality of the subtitles took a noticeable drop,with the name of Rachel's husband (whose one of the lead characters!) constantly changing from Jorge to George,which I have to admit did pull me out of the film a little bit.From the opening scene of the film,I found it very easy to see that this is an entry in the Coffin Joe series which had some cash that could be splashed on the screen.For the look of the film,writer/director Jose Morjica Marins (who also gives a wonderful humbleness to his performance as Rachel's husband) gives the film a terrific style that got me to remember the Roald Dahl's Tale of The Unexpected TV series. (with the added bonus of the movies two lead actresses being naked in the film)One of the most interesting things that I found with this film was that although the characters are shown to wear stylish bright clothes for the whole film,Marnis makes sure that the brightness never stops him from delivering a weird take on Beauty and the Beast!.Although unlike the Disney version,this one contains a horrific eye scene,that caused my legs to twitch right away.