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VHS : Wyvern MysteryIn association with Amazon.comstarring: Naomi Watts, Derek Jacobi, James Doherty, Iain Glen, Jack Davenport directed by: Alex Pillai  List Price: $19.98 Price: $8.48 You Save: $11.50 (58%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780779206216 Format: Color, NTSC ISBN: 0779206215 Label: Bfs Entertainment Manufacturer: Bfs Entertainment Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Bfs Entertainment Release Date: October 07, 2003 Running Time: 120 minutes Studio: Bfs Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: October 12, 2000 Sales Rank: 67854 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Not so good...I was fairly disappointed in this movie. I love period dramas and British mysteries and I was hoping for a gothic treat. I also was interested in seeing Naomi Watts again since I enjoyed her performance in Painted Veil. I really wanted to like this movie but found the script sorely lacking and the performances mediocre. As a generic Hollywood offering, the piece was mildly entertaining but certainly not on par with other offerings in the genre. This DVD was suggested by Amazon based on my previous ... Read More Rating:  - An intriguing gothic thriller!It was by accident that I stumbled upon this movie and I must say, it is a well-made gothic period drama. Alice, an orphan is taken in by the Squire of Wyvern, and she grows up to be a beauty who attracts the unsavory attention of the aging Squire. Unbeknownst to him, Alice [Naomi Watts] is in love with his eldest son, and the both of them elope, earning the wrath of the Squire. The newly married couple move to Carwell Grange, a mysterious old house with dark sections that seem to indicate the presence ... Read More Rating:  - Good But not Great Gothic TaleThis gothic horror tale has more plot twists, many unexplained, than the maze at Hampton Court. There is much promised, but sadly little delivery of what could have been a well above average story. Some of the tale is implied in fevered flash-backs. At times it is not only hard to tell who is having them, but whether they represent real or imagined events. The answer to both is a definite: maybe. The costuming and atmospheric setting is worth seeing. The cast is stellar. Naomi Watts, looking like a ... Read More Rating:  - Victorian GothicIrish/French writer J. Sheridan Lefanu's novel "Carmilla" about a female vampire is his most famous work but he wrote a number of captivating Gothic novels dealing with ghosts and mystery. The Wyvern Mystery is a long and complicated work of psychological female fear, especially regarding losing children to a "monster" both within the woman herself or from a powerful "other". Naomi Watts - in Victorian garb- stars as the quintessentially Gothic heroine. She is somewhat naive about the world at first but develops ... Read More Rating:  - The Wyvern MysteryI had just finished the book by J.S. La Fanu and inserted the DVD,wondering how close the DVD would follow the book. What a sad disappointment. In no way did the dvd even come close to the book, in fact I so surprised to see how they distorted the story line, which was very interesting in the printed word. The screen writer should be ashamed in knowingly substituting an isipid story line in place of a well written plot. I cannot say how a viewer would react when viewing the DVD without reading ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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