The Living and the Dead
IMDB Rating: 5.80, 444 votes
|
Taglines
- Terror by good intentions.
Storyline
A descent into Hell is triggered when "Ex-Lord" Donald Brocklebank finds that he must leave Longleigh House for London to find a way to pay for the medical treatments for his wife Nancy. Alone, his over-protected, delusional, adult son, James, fancies himself in charge of the manor house with his terminally ill mother, and barricades the two of them into the house for a series of ever more panicked home treatments, mistakenly protecting her from the arrival of Nurse Mary and any outside help.
Actors
| Donald Brocklebank | Roger Lloyd-Pack |
| James Brocklebank | Leo Bill |
| Policeman | Neil Conrich |
|
Posted in: 2006, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Tagged: acceptance, affection, ambulance, anxiety, aristocrat, asylum, attic, awkward, bankruptcy, barricade, bath, bathroom, bathtub, bathtub scene, bed ridden, bedroom, bittersweet, bizarre, blood, bloody body of child, british, cancer, car, catatonic, chase, child in peril, commitment, compassion, costume, critically acclaimed, cult favorite, dead child, death, death of mother, death of son, death of wife, deathbed, decadence, delusion, depression, disturbing, doctor, domestic violence, door, doppelganger, dream sequence, dress, drug abuse, dying young, dysfunctional family, england, estate, existence, experimental film, fall down stairs, family crisis, fast motion sequence, father son relationship, female frontal nudity, female nudity, filicide, filmed in mirror, flash forward, flashback sequence, foyer, fugue, funeral, garden, ghost, guilt, guilty conscience, hallucination, haunted, headbanger, healthcare, hearse, homecare nurse, honesty, husband wife relationship, hypodermic needle, identity, independent film, insanity, isolation, key, kitchen, knife, landed gentry, life, lock out, locked door, long take, loss of mother, loss of son, loss of wife, madness, marriage, maze, medicine cabinet, memory, mental illness, mercy killing, metastatic sores, mirror, mistaken identity, mother son relationship, murder, murder of wife, nudity, nurse, obscure meaning, oedipus complex, opulence, overdose, overhead camera shot, overhead shot, panic, paranormal, patient, personality disorder, photograph, piercing, pill, police, police car, psycho pharmaceuticals, psychological drama, psychological thriller, psychology, psychopath, reflection, refrigerator, restroom, rotting corpse, schizophrenia, scream, severed wrists, shock in the end, sickness, slow motion, soul mates, spirit, stabbing, suicide, suicide by stabbing, supernatural, surgeon, surgery, surreal, tantrum, telephone, terminal illness, time lapse photography, toilet scene, tragedy, trance, twist in the end, vicar, video, violence, wedding dress, wheelchair, window, yelling
