Directed by Mitch Jenkins this 2020 piece of modern film noir was written by Alan Moore and I guess you could call it Noir by way of a British take on Twin Peaks, a stroll round Northampton where strangeness abounds.
It was both it having been penned by Moore, in and of itself, and the blurb that caught my eye: “A man of many talents arrives in a strange and haunted town on a mission to locate a stolen artefact for his menacing client, Fletcher finds himself entangled in a twilight world of vampires, sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, noir private eyes, and masked avengers. Welcome to The Show.”
Obviously, the reason for featuring this here is the vampires mentioned, though in reality it is one vampire and maybe not a real one. Fletcher (Tom Burke, Dracula), using a series of assumed names, is looking for a man named James Mitchum (Darrell D'Silva) and has tracked him to the hospital, but when he can’t locate him on ward he speaks to an orderly named Clive (Julian Bleach, the Brothers Grimm) who takes him to Mitchum – in the morgue… Clive has a lot of New Age speak, wears a Bauhaus tee and has a patch on his uniform that says “So Goth I’m dead”.
When he contacts Fletcher again, he gives his name as Clive, or Orlock, which is his vampire name. We meet him briefly one more time (wearing a different Bauhaus Tee). Is he actually a vampire, or perhaps he identifies as a vampire, or perhaps he's just a Goth who likes acting like one? Actually, in the bizarre world of the Show it might be any of the three. It is, however, a fleeting visitation whichever one it might be. The film itself is low on action but high on strangeness, reminding me very much of Twin Peaks: The Return in tone, at least in places. The imdb page is here.
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On Demand @ Amazon UK
It was both it having been penned by Moore, in and of itself, and the blurb that caught my eye: “A man of many talents arrives in a strange and haunted town on a mission to locate a stolen artefact for his menacing client, Fletcher finds himself entangled in a twilight world of vampires, sleeping beauties, Voodoo gangsters, noir private eyes, and masked avengers. Welcome to The Show.”
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| Clive and Fletcher |
Obviously, the reason for featuring this here is the vampires mentioned, though in reality it is one vampire and maybe not a real one. Fletcher (Tom Burke, Dracula), using a series of assumed names, is looking for a man named James Mitchum (Darrell D'Silva) and has tracked him to the hospital, but when he can’t locate him on ward he speaks to an orderly named Clive (Julian Bleach, the Brothers Grimm) who takes him to Mitchum – in the morgue… Clive has a lot of New Age speak, wears a Bauhaus tee and has a patch on his uniform that says “So Goth I’m dead”.
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| Julian Bleach as Clive |
When he contacts Fletcher again, he gives his name as Clive, or Orlock, which is his vampire name. We meet him briefly one more time (wearing a different Bauhaus Tee). Is he actually a vampire, or perhaps he identifies as a vampire, or perhaps he's just a Goth who likes acting like one? Actually, in the bizarre world of the Show it might be any of the three. It is, however, a fleeting visitation whichever one it might be. The film itself is low on action but high on strangeness, reminding me very much of Twin Peaks: The Return in tone, at least in places. The imdb page is here.
On Demand @ Amazon US
On Demand @ Amazon UK
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