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Nil By Mouth

This one is a really gritty British film starring Ray Winston where he plays a jealous coke sniffing wife beater, and my god does he play it well! Kathy Burke plays his distraught wife, and there's a really shocking scene where he beats and stomps on her while she's pregnant - later losing the baby - all because he felt she was overly friendly while talking to a male friend in the pub. I love Ray in this, he's at his snarling best in my opinion and nobody does it better.

Some of the violent scenes are hard to watch and that's testimony to how well their acted. The atmosphere is tense throughout and while the content doesn't disturb me as such, I can still vouch for this as a great movie, the feel of it is very real even if you don't see that much physical violence. The only reason this is so low on my list is that I've a lot more disturbing/sickening cinema in my collection than most and have seen worse. Few are a better actual movie than this as a whole though, and I feel a lot of people would "enjoy" this as a film than a lot of those like August Underground or the Vomit Gore films - they're entirely different beasts all together in my opinion - those sorts of film are made for a niche market whereas this one is more as a film depicting what happens in real life behind closed doors. A very good movie, worth a watch if you haven't seen it. The gore hounds and sickos would be better looking elsewhere though!