Girly is an immature but thoroughly sexed up teenager, she with her brother 'Sonny', seem to be trapped in a perpetual childhood. They just want to play games, sing nursery rhymes and lure unsuspecting 'friends' back home for frolics, tea cakes and to be sent to meet God early via the 'angels – bless em the little darlings.
A poetic short love story. Seductive for performances, music and clocks, for snow and for the words of the hands.
Freddie Francis's "Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly" (released as "Girly" in North America) has a neat premise and some fun scenes but is mostly too weird to be generally appealing. It's about a group of people pretending to be a family so that they can lure men to their house and force them to participate in the game.
About three years ago, my friend gave me a VHS which contained three films. One of them being "GIRLY".
....are what I'll remember the most from this one.
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly is very much a product of the swinging '60s/early '70s, with director Freddie Francis taking a somewhat avant garde approach to his twisted tale of a demented family that abducts men to be their new 'friends'. Imagine Jack Hill's Spider Baby(1968) crossed with cult TV show The Prisoner (1967) and you'll be close to understanding the perversity and strangeness that this bizarre little film has to offer.
With the alluring Vanessa Howard dressed as a school girl and directed by cinematography great Freddie Francis this looks like a must see. Unfortunately it's a big disappointment.
Bizarre, vaguely hysterical horror that sank without a trace when it was released in 1970, but has since acquired cult status. A sexually provocative 22-year-old Vanessa Howard in school uniform and short skirt dominates the film as the wilful teenage girl with the mannerisms of a small child who, with her equally strange brother, lures vagrants to their stately home where they are forced to play their part in their hugely skewed version of the family unit.
I saw this on release (at age 17 or 18) and it reminded me of NOTHING. A year later, SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE reminded me of this cool, sinister and hilarious dark comedy from the British Isles.
