The Fiend.
Robert Hartford-Davis delivers a films possibly as seedy and disreputable as Corruption, so this comes highly recommended!
Kenny is 'troubled' to say the least. His mothers something of a religious fanatic, his father has left the scene so filling in is the minister (Patrick Magee) a corrupt lay preacher who promotes a fanatical americanised brand of christianity that seeks to control every aspect of it's followers lives.
This upbringing only seems to have made poor Kenney worse as his reaction to meeting a gorgeous woman these days seems to be murdering her and leaving the corpse some place for people to stumble upon. His mothers district nurse and her sister, a chain smoking investigative journalist are suspicious and begin digging around for clues.
The fiend is fairly nasty piece of work, while not as bloody as corruption its themes of religious fanaticism and sexual violence make it stronger stuff than a lot of horror made in Britain around 1972.
Scanners 2 the new order.
Cheapie direct to video sequel to Cronenberg's film. Enjoyable enough tale of psychic warfare and police corruption in Canada. Nowhere near as good as the first it's also perhaps a little overlong.
Scanners 3
Realising the sequels are never going to be as good as the original this third entry is much better than part 2 as it becomes sleazier and gorier and as a result much more entertaining in a trashy kind of way. A new drug causes a female scanner to turn evil and its up to her brother to stop her.
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