THE APPOINTMENT
Going to the dogs
Edward Woodward would. Would you?
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➤Director Lindsey Vickers
➤Edward Woodward,
Jane Merrow, Samantha Weysom
BLU-RAY DEBUT Director Lindsey Vickers describes this BFI Flipside release as a “dream come true” – an apt choice of words, given the film’s subject matter. This doom-laden chiller never got a theatrical release, with the few who saw it doing so via TV or video. In some respects it has a TV movie feel, given the domestic focus: a couple (Edward Woodward, Jane Merrow) and their daughter (Samantha Weysom), who sulks when a work engagement stops dad attending a violin recital. Petty chat about towels and bedclothes tethers the supernatural to a bland middleclass world of floral wallpaper and pottery knick-knacks.