NASTY NEIGHBOURS
1999

United States Premiere
February 23, 2001

Cinequest San Jose Film Festival

-->Written and Directed by.....Debbie Isitt
-->Harold Peach.....Ricky Tomlinson
-->Jean Peach.....Marion Bailey
-->Chapman.....Phil Daniels [Quadrophenia, Chicken Run]
-->Mrs. Chapman.....Rachel Fielding

The Peachs say goodbye to their beloved neighbors as they head off to Australia. The new duplex-sharing neighbors are the Chapmans who are younger and hipper and ruder than their predecesors. The Peachs take an instant dislike to them.

Creative camera work. Mock post-event interviews, split screen images. Good story about neighborly problems that get out of hand on a quiet cul-de-sac in England. All the roles are good, but something doesn't add up. They go way past the point of realism or humor. All of the characters are psychologically messed up. The version I saw had a fantastic soundtrack featuring the Sex Pistols, Lou Reed, Tom Waits. We were told that for the U.K. release all the music had to be changed. Funny slow motion and a fantastic 'my dick is bigger than yours' race through the streets of London.

The director was onhand and damn if she wasn't a doll and a half. She joked about having characters die, she mentioned she wanted the whole thing done in Victorian costumes. She appears as the pregnant daughter of the Peachs.