Brimstone & Treacle

(Rating/review for original Dennis Potter Play for Today) A dark and disturbing take on the Devil personified; the film follows his efforts to insidiously insert himself into the lives of a family torn apart by their daughter's brain damage in a car crash. It's a difficult watch and Kitchen's lead performance is impressively menacing. A few unnecessary dated effects and on-the-nose fourth-wall poetry detract from the atmosphere, but overall this holds up quite well, suitably creepy and upsetting

A bizarre, well-acted comedy-drama. Sting proves himself an actor of considerable virtuosity.

Strange satisfying little movie

Not bad.