This remake deals about a depressed patrolman(Nicolas Cage, role of Edward Woodward)affected by a car accident. He receives a letter from ex-girlfriend(Kate Beaham) asking help for her disappeared daughter. Then he goes to a lonely island, located in state of Washington. There lives a strange matriarchal community, an Amish-alike, whose denizens(Molly Parker,Leelee Sobiesky,Diane Delano, in former version were Diane Cilento,Britt Ekland,Christopher Lee,Lindsay Kemp among others) practice rare pagan rituals and pre-Celtics customs and ruled by a chief sister(Ellen Burstyn).
This new version from British classic by Robin Hardy contains suspense, mystery, occult terror without gratuitous gore and spectacular outdoors shot in Vancouver. Very persuasively script written by Neal LaBute, differs on the original -by playwright Anthony Shaffer, author of 'Sleuth' -in various issues, previous adaptation is set in a Scottish offshore island with a community practicing bizarre pagan sexual rites, here is in State of Washington with a matriarchal society and without sexual situations. Besides first version the community cultivated apples, while this one are bees with drones represented by men and a Bee Queen well incarnated by Ellen Burstyn. The film displays a very good cinematography by Paul Sarossy and unsettling musical score by Angelo Badalamenti, author of Twin Peaks soundtrack. The motion picture is professionally directed by Neal LaBute, though with no originally. The movie is dedicated to Johnny Ramone memory, recently deceased. Furthermore there is a final alternative, only available in DVD.
This new version from British classic by Robin Hardy contains suspense, mystery, occult terror without gratuitous gore and spectacular outdoors shot in Vancouver. Very persuasively script written by Neal LaBute, differs on the original -by playwright Anthony Shaffer, author of 'Sleuth' -in various issues, previous adaptation is set in a Scottish offshore island with a community practicing bizarre pagan sexual rites, here is in State of Washington with a matriarchal society and without sexual situations. Besides first version the community cultivated apples, while this one are bees with drones represented by men and a Bee Queen well incarnated by Ellen Burstyn. The film displays a very good cinematography by Paul Sarossy and unsettling musical score by Angelo Badalamenti, author of Twin Peaks soundtrack. The motion picture is professionally directed by Neal LaBute, though with no originally. The movie is dedicated to Johnny Ramone memory, recently deceased. Furthermore there is a final alternative, only available in DVD.