An Acrid Yarn (2010) User Reviews

Hmmm

[arfdawg-1 · 5/10 · 28 January 2014]

Based on real events in a small town where the pastor takes advantage of his female flock.

Not sure if it's really based on a true story.

The movie is interesting and maybe worth a look see.

Some preacher goes around savagely beating to death people from time to time in different places.

I was never really sure why, nor is any of the violence especially graphic. This last part is what makes it interesting. The filmmakers appear to have been trying to make a serious movie with a low budget. The acting is good.

After a while, however, it grows a bit tedious. Try it out. See if you like it.

No rest for the ungodly

[kanankoipi-56197 · 7/10 · 30 December 2023]

A wicked preacher never runs short of sermon material, as they say.

This must take place in a very small backwater town without any kind of law or clerical enforcement

enabling the Preacher as well as the

townfolks to solve their conflicts in a most medieval manner just by snuffing their adversaries

and burying them in the back yard.

A true story or not, the antagonist, our intrepid preacher is a morbid example of a self appointed

Holy Man entiled to any sexual or otherwise degenerate liberties.

The protagonist is no Knight in Shining Armour either, with his rude behaviour towards all and anyone.

The Damsels in Distress here are just helpless victims, pillaged ruthlessly by both rival parties.

Points for describing what small town religious tyranny is at its worst

and the straightforward methods how it is encountered.

Yup, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Absolute power received from Above, well, You decide...