Hugh grant’s forgotten Bram Stoker adaptation is rude

Based on a less well-known Bram Stoker novel, he focuses on the two trente sisters who live alone in a tenant farmer after their parents disappeared. An alarming teenager Peter Capaldi plays an archaeologist who discovers a huge chull from her front garden, and Grant plays the Lord of the manor house, James d’Ampton, whose ancestor has hit a fearsome worm.

The undisputed star of the whole thing is Amanda Donohoe, which, which must certainly be the most committed performance of the decade, as Lady Sylvia Marsh, another member of the landed nobility who lives in a neighboring mansion. Although she (fairly bad) camouflages as a person, she happens to be an old snake. Or maybe she is a vampire with snake -like tendencies. In both cases, it spends most of the time to vomit in full dominatrix mode and to vomit a fantastic acidity on religious jewelry.

In one scene one of the sisters of Trent, subtly mentioned Eve (of course Maria), touches the vomit and has a violent vision of a group of nuns that are raped by Roman soldiers while a crossing winner of Jesus. In another scene, Lady Sylvia bends to the sound of a teenager-hitchhik mundharmonic, which hardly wears more than thigh boots. On another occasion, she shines at the length of the arm and rapes a hypnotized virgin.

All of this fades compared to a really wonderful moment when Capaldi rocks a snake fight in a kilt and submits the female snake with the dulcet tones of his bagpipes. Speaking of whistle, the phallic symbolism in this film is so open that it is practically no longer symbolic. In a long order in which a plane is involved in which Lady Sylvia hammered a door frame (it also makes no sense in the context), Grant keeps a red tip stick so that it makes its analogy to the male organ completely unmistakable.

At this point it is critical that this is determined The hiding place of the white worm Could be a masterpiece. You can imagine that Francis Ford Coppola is watching to prepare for the production Bram Stoker’s Dracula And make plenty of notes just to scribble on the edge, “but a little less cool”.

It is not surprising that it has hardly earned $ 1 million at the box office, and Grant has expressed a certain embarrassment since then. This is unfortunate because it is something like a harbinger of his latest work. This film is completely waiting, which is not inspired and inspired, and just waits for the world to rediscover it.

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