From the creator of "Darkplace' Matthew Holness's comes the violent crime thriller 'A Gun for George,' about a pulp fiction writer who decides to avenge his brother's death at the hands of gangsters, produced by Warp and Film4.
Terry Finch - a man alone. Forgotten author of The Reprisalizer, Britain's toughest pulp paperback vigilante, Finch pens tall tales of brute force and rough justice from his isolated caravan, treading a thin line between reality and fantasy in an attempt to exorcise painful memories of his brother's death. When his ailing writing career grinds to a final halt, Terry’s compulsive and cathartic visions of violent retribution refuse to die with it, and a dark new chapter in the story of The Reprisalizer unfolds - where actions speak louder than words...
Terry Finch - a man alone. Forgotten author of The Reprisalizer, Britain's toughest pulp paperback vigilante, Finch pens tall tales of brute force and rough justice from his isolated caravan, treading a thin line between reality and fantasy in an attempt to exorcise painful memories of his brother's death. When his ailing writing career grinds to a final halt, Terry’s compulsive and cathartic visions of violent retribution refuse to die with it, and a dark new chapter in the story of The Reprisalizer unfolds - where actions speak louder than words...
- 2/28/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (Flicks News)
- FlicksNews.net
Matthew Holness first rose to notoriety with his character of Garth Marenghi; author, dream-weaver, visionary, plus actor. He’s a perfect creation, all the insufferable genre authors boiled down to one. Holness has returned with another author and another genre, and takes the story in the opposite direction. A Gun For George, available for viewing at Britain’s Film4 website, is a short film featuring a down on his luck author who’s angry at the world for the loss of his brother, and his popularity.
Terry Finch is the author of the (once) popular Reprizalizer series, a two-fisted vigilante, taking to the criminals of suburban England. He’s self-deluded, down on his luck, and angry at the world about it. While you laugh at garth and look forward to someday seeing his head trapped in farm equipment, Matthew makes you feel for Terry. His books are clear Mary Sue fiction,...
Terry Finch is the author of the (once) popular Reprizalizer series, a two-fisted vigilante, taking to the criminals of suburban England. He’s self-deluded, down on his luck, and angry at the world about it. While you laugh at garth and look forward to someday seeing his head trapped in farm equipment, Matthew makes you feel for Terry. His books are clear Mary Sue fiction,...
- 1/18/2013
- by Vinnie Bartilucci
- Comicmix.com
Suddenly, brand-new vintage pictures are everywhere. But is cinema's great leap backwards more suited to cult concerns such as Grindhouse and Darkplace?
Future historians sifting through the cinematic detritus of the last 100 years might find themselves wondering whether some dozy assistant had mislabelled the reels for the early 21st century. After an orderly progression from silent cinema, through the talkies, Technicolor, right up to the digital era, it suddenly starts to get messy. What's this 1950s melodrama doing in the 2002 pile? Why were a bunch of 1970s horror movies apparently made in the noughties? And which idiot thought that this silent movie belonged to 2011?
Movies set in the past are nothing new, but in recent years we've seen a boom in films made in the style of their particular era. It's a new level of vintage: not just getting the period details right onscreen, but getting the whole mode of presentation correct,...
Future historians sifting through the cinematic detritus of the last 100 years might find themselves wondering whether some dozy assistant had mislabelled the reels for the early 21st century. After an orderly progression from silent cinema, through the talkies, Technicolor, right up to the digital era, it suddenly starts to get messy. What's this 1950s melodrama doing in the 2002 pile? Why were a bunch of 1970s horror movies apparently made in the noughties? And which idiot thought that this silent movie belonged to 2011?
Movies set in the past are nothing new, but in recent years we've seen a boom in films made in the style of their particular era. It's a new level of vintage: not just getting the period details right onscreen, but getting the whole mode of presentation correct,...
- 1/7/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
If you, like us, were left wondering just what Garth Marenghi co-creator Matthew Holness would do to follow Darkplace (and Man To Man With Dean Learner), wonder no more: he’s now plotting to turn his dark vigilante comedy short film A Gun For George into a full-fledged feature called The Reprisalizer. A spoof of both ‘80s cop dramas and the likes of the Death Wish films, The Reprisalizer will follow the twisted acts of Bob Shuter, described as “a normal newspaper kiosk vendor until gangsters electrified his brother’s testicles by car battery.”And, much in the same fashion that Holness portrayed both writer Marenghi and the character he played on the Darkplace series, Dr Rick Dagless, he’ll appear as both Shuter and his creator, writer Terry Finch. Whose books, by the way, promise Brutal Violence Or Your Money Back. And you can take that to the bank.
- 12/7/2011
- EmpireOnline
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