British sleaze artist Pete Walker applies his characteristic sleazy, ultra-violent touch to this audacious, Catholic-bashing tale. A deranged, sex-mad priest (Anthony Sharpe) exploits the sanctity of his office as a means of harassing young women who confide their sins in his confessional, recording their confessions in order to blackmail them into doing his vile bidding. Eventually, evidence of these transgressions reaches other members of his parish (including his mother), prompting him to
Feb 28, 2006
All Critics (3) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (0) | Rotten (1)
I'm so in love with Walker's FRIGHTMARE that this engaging but credibility-stretching thriller can't help but let me down a bit. Still worth a look, though.
October 4, 2007
"The House of Mortal Sin" is a riproaring entertainment; intensity from Anthony Sharp (familiar as C of E cleric in "Steptoe and Son"), who treads the line between tragic and comic with true melodramatic command. Susan Penhaligon and Stephanie Beacham provide distinctively 1970s charms. A fine piece of British genre
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