With minimal dialogue throughout, it plays almost like a silent movie, which in turn demands a simple narrative that it delivers with ease.
With his stooped walk as he painfully wheezes for breath, his sewn together mask of skin does seem a slightly familiar inclusion, but generally speaking he’s a captivatingly created psychopath.
#WE WERE YOUNG SOULS ON THE JUNKYARD MOVIE#
A passing, axe-wielding local (David White) warns them in his best Crazy Ralph impression that “These woods aren’t safe here”, before delivering a cornball classic of the type we need more of, “They call him Little Sister, and he’ll rip your face off”.Īdmittedly having a crazed lunatic in your movie and calling him Little Sister can go either way, but fortunately for the Piccolo brothers it really seems to work, especially when the necessary backstory gets painted in throughout the feature. Sheila (Holli Dillon) and Tom (Mattia Rosellini) are camping deep in the back of beyond, where upon returning to their tent they discover their friends Jessica (Astrid Di Bon), James (Antonio Pauletta) and Nadine (Sofia Pauly) are missing.
Well, with the release of MY LITTLE SISTER via Left Films this week, I think I might finally have cause to kneel before these inventive Italians. I found both The Hounds (2011) and Evil Souls (2015) to be fair, if rather ordinary movies, but after reading the admiring thoughts of people like the esteemed MJ Simpson, I began to question if perhaps I was missing something. Two films into the career of the Piccolo brothers, Maurizio and Roberto, and I must admit I wasn’t really overly enamoured by what I’d seen so far. Dave Wain’s essential breakdown of this week’s cavalcade of straight-to-disc treats.
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