A Is for Acid (2002 TV Movie)
8/10
A Parody of Similies
3 March 2011
Martin Clunes plays a truly pig-full, chauvinistic (unfortunately slightly-hysterical but it shouldn't) performance as he plays the clever inventor who drops comical one-liners. The film makes one's ribs crack in sadness and pain as Haigh (Clunes), dressed to mimic Hitler (moustache, hair and all) seduces women in typical Clunes innuendo style, and then proceeds to kill and dip their bodies in acid.

This film certainly is A is For Acid, as Haigh (Clunes) recites the dream he had when he was a child about 'His Vampire Story'. I do not believe I have ever seen so many 'straight' faces in my life throughout the whole film never mind the lyrics to the music from the start to 'The End', quoting from the Dad of Johnny George Haigh.

This film is ultimately a rip-off from Alfred Hitchcock's 'Johnny Brown's Body' (1955-1962). It has been done in the most satirical way that ITV (shown on ITV3 (Britain) on 4th March) and IMDb viewers have seemed to overlook this in their reviews.
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