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Reviewed by undeadbydawn 10 / 10 / 10 Too close for comfortI found this film particularly painful to watch for entirely personal reasons.First, I am an ex-psych nurse. I am currently a Social Care Worker dealing with some of the worst cases around. I am also mentally ill, though not critically so. As such this film touched home on just about every level.This film is black and raw and real.
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The acting, especially of the son, is utterly superb very much akin to cases I have dealt with, which made the rapid descent all the more believable. I sat for a majority of the film thinking of just how easily this could really happen - and likely has happened many, many times.There is an interesting quirk of time-line throughout, which highlights the reaction of the father to the actions of the son, which at its best involves a dual view of the stairwell. I felt this was something of a pivotal point and quite superb direction. The differing states of the building itself likewise reflect the state of the mother, which is again subtle but effective.Do not expect a standard horror here. It feels more like a snapshot of real lives and as such is vastly more effective than any straight horror flick could ever hope to be.I would urge anyone with even a passing interest in mental health to watch this film.
Consider it a warning of how easily the system can fail, and consider yourself forewarned.That is all. Reviewed by cchase 6 / 10 / 10 A Completely Shattering 'Realistic' Horror Film.The greatest writers and filmmakers in the horror genre have one thing in common with their peers in other genres: they know that if you do nothing else, you have to tell a compelling story, with characters you can care about, whether you love them or hate them.
If the story being told isn't worth crap, and you could hardly give a damn about the characters either way, then you're wasting your time and that of your audience. And sometimes, the best way to tell a horrifying, heartbreaking story is to keep it simple and keep it real.Though uncovering its many layers takes you in a downward spiral of disillusion, madness and death, Simon Rumley's THE LIVING AND THE DEAD pares down a horror tale to its very essence, like the best of Stephen King or Poe's deepest, darkest imaginings. But what makes this film all the more tragic and terrifying is that there's not a vampire, werewolf or banshee in sight. It's simply the story of a family experiencing an increasing series of emotional nuclear implosions that eventually destroys everything in its wake, leaving one survivor shattered, shaken and stripped of everything, especially his sanity.The entire story virtually never leaves its initial setting: Longleigh, a crumbling mansion located in an almost completely isolated part of the English countryside. The former Lord Donald Brocklebank (Roger Lloyd Pack) and his family have obviously fallen on hard times, with Donald and his wife Nancy (Kate Fahy) serving as the caretakers to severely mentally handicapped son James (Leo Bill), who is clinically a paranoid schizophrenic with severe depression, amongst other things. Under pressure to somehow resolve the family's dire financial straits, James's parents are hard-pressed to maintain the full-time job of taking care of him, and therefore have to rely on him to look after himself and his own medications a surefire recipe for disaster.
Reviewed by suspiria56 6 / 10 / 10 Brave showing by a director with potentialIgnore the previous comment by 'perisho', but I would take something from the others thereafter, both positive and negative.Firstly the negatives - yes there are gaping holes in the plot, seemingly situations that wouldn't happen, possibly too long for its plot subject. Right, the positives - great acting, good use of dialogue (often repetitive and therefore affecting), good use of ambiguity (which helps convey the mental health issues that the family have) and possibly explain the seemingly apparent plot holes (is all we see really occurring?), brilliant cinematography, and it's a brave attempt at a all too often patronised subject matter.Furthermore, it is made on a tight budget in Britain. A rare commodity nowadays. Only a handful of directors in the UK work outside of the mainstream, and Rumley's effort should be applauded. Even the film factory that is the Hollywood machine can't achieve this level of skill (A Beautiful Mind, Rainman.please!).
Only say Keane, Devil & Daniel Johnston and Julien Donkey Boy have we seen schizophrenia in the manner with which we see here. Yes, not everything works, but when it does, this film is powerful and touching as anything else in cinema dealing with mental illness.Well done to the director and may your second feature be as strong.