It was easily the most disturbing, painful and brutal scene in the movie.
I understand that he had recently lost his wife prior to the film's production. He gave one hell of a performance
Yeah. Out of all of them, with Major Rogers being a close second, he's the one who deserves a horrible death the most. You kind of hope that it really hurt a lot.
shareI kinda wonder why the father of the guy who sent the cards didn't also face a messy end. Certainly he didn't do anything to stop his son from doing such hateful things.
One could argue losing his son was his punishment. Remember, Grimsdyke had recently lost his wife and was grieving. Perhaps he wished to inflict the same sort of pain on his tormentor's father.
I mean, really, how many times will you look under Jabba's manboobs?
Yeah, watching that scene just tore my heart out. Which is why the ending of this segment makes its title "Poetic Justice" all the more fitting.
I'm not a man who respects Valentine's Day, not even the slightest, but somehow, just the innocence of those cards, the cartoon bears hiding Valentines behind their backs with the question "Will you be my Valentine?" and the sinister contents within just felt so...blasphemous. Combined with the hurt expression on Cushing's face it just really digs deep into you. Amazing performance and a great story, it just made the whole movie better and it was already a great one.
Good scene. Peter Cushing plays it well. His quietly-spoken shock while reading them is just right.
shareYeah. The guy that sent him those hateful messages really got his in the end.
When the Story Lady tells us about the naughty boy who blew up his goldfish.
I felt so sorry for him. Nobody deserves to be treated like he was.
shareI hope that Mr Grimsdyke went to heaven, even if he killed someone. It was poetic justice!
The witchy wife who murdered her husband was another villain I hated, except Grimsdyke´s neighbour. And they could be joined in hell by a young couple from What Became of Jack and Jill? (1972) - the girl is especially filthy piece of work - who torment his invalid grandmother to cause a heart attack and get her money.
“Look, you don’t really think that I could be in love with a rotten little tramp like you, do you?”
It was truly heartbreaking and made me feel really sad. To me, the revenge scene was one of the most expected and enjoyed I can remember...
Animal crackers in my soup
Monkeys and rabbits loop the loop
I hated this story, simply because he was so good at acting that scene. It genuinely made me feel awful and so bad for him....I had to tell myself 'it's not real, it's not real' to stop myself getting genuinely angry at both the people doing it to him and the writer for writing such a horrible thing LOL
The one thing though....at the end of the film the monk says that they're there forever because of their actions with no remorse.....the one thing I would say is the son actually does seem to show remorse when he's burning those cards, it's clear it all got out of hand and he feels bad for it. Don't get me wrong, I still wanted Cushing to rip his bloody heart out, I just thought it didn't quite tie in with what the monk says.
~ I hardly looked at his face. His knees were what I wished to see. ~
The monk stated at the end that they were in a place "where people go who have died without repentance". The neighbour who wrote the valentine cards to Grimsdike may have been sorry that it got out of hand, but not sorry about his actions in the first place. Anybody can be sorry for the outcome, but everyone should be sorry for planning harmful acts to begin with. He wasn't sorry for being a prick, he was only sorry that his plan got out of hand; there should not have been any maliciousness to begin with. He was still a prick with no telling how many other people he may have hurt with maliciousness, only he never intended on murder being the outcome.
People such as those portrayed in this segment are everywhere and they are becoming far too common. They exist in just about every establishment, whether as spivey backhanded headteachers (school principals), teachers who want to advance in their career because they were too stupid to make it anywhere else in life, or business people and politicians who only care about their ego. There was a story on the early 70s Night Gallery series called Green Fingers, where a man does just about the same thing, only to an elderly woman.