Review of Spanking the Monkey (1994) by Adrian S — 02 Nov 2010

I saw this at the Phoenix Picture House in Oxford when it first came out, and remember enjoying it at the time. Second time round ... and hell, it's disturbing. It's also not that great a movie - all a bit contrived and, dare I say, amateurish.

There's nothing in the script or direction that makes the darkness of the subject matter in any way comic. Could possibly have been a three-star movie but it gets a star deduction for failing to live up to my remembrances.