When it comes to dark humour no one better at it than the British, having at laugh at madness and cue DRUMMOND WILL the debut feature for Alan Butterworth. Watching the trailer it reminds me a little of League of Gentlemen doing Shallow Grave maybe with a hint of Monty Python, (I wonder if Papa Lazarou will show up in this asking Dave for DVDS?!). The movie did do the rounds at some of the film festivals late 2010 and now hoping to have some sort of theatrical release in 2011.
Shot on the Red One in black and white, The Drummond Will is a
collision between old and new. A black comedy set in decaying rural
England.
It follows estranged brothers Marcus and Danny Drummond as they
find themselves on a surprisingly dangerous undertaking to unravel
the mystery surrounding their father’s very unlikely wealth.
A deeply affectionate modern retelling of the classic comedies and
murder mysteries from the Ealing era of British cinema, The
Drummond Will imagines what it would be like to be stuck in a
world where the strange rules of Ealing cinema apply. A world
where life continues quite as normal in the face of escalating body
counts, where sleepy English villages invariably harbour any
number of dark secrets, and where you only really know who the
murderer is when everybody else has been killed. The thoroughly
modern Danny and Marcus are trapped in just such a world, and are
quickly swept out of their depth. As they realise they’ll need to rely
on each other if they are to survive, and modern ideas like
forensics, cell phones and common sense won’t help them, it
quickly becomes clear that, inevitably, nothing is what it seems.
source BeyondHollywood
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