zehlers Review of The Green Man

The Green Man (1990)

soft core Brit porn/ horror movie elevated by Albert Finney...

[6/10 · 5 August 2005]

I love anything Albert Finney does. A friend loaned Green Man to me because I had lent him A Man of No Importance. He said if I liked Albert Finney, I had to see this one. It was kind of like a bad acid trip mixed with marginal porn, a ghost story and a dollop of gore thrown in for good measure, but despite the dreadful special effects and the silly, disjointed plot, I enjoyed it. I got a kick out of the priest and Josie Lawrence too. Worth seeing just for it's strangeness, and Albert, of course...The religious stuff felt confusing at times. There are some fun bits, the wife and mistress running off together made me laugh. The father was charming. The scenery was gorgeous, and the idea of a haunted inn in Cambridge was just too good to pass up.