Dermot is in love with Pearl and is going to meet her family for the first time. But not everyone lives in the same world as us..
Direction
Ridley's precise visual language of creeping dread
Production
1988 British TV budget stretched to uncanny limits
Acting
Sheila Hancock's terrifying maternal warmth
Director
Philip Ridley
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Part of BBC's 'Screen Two' anthology, incubating weird British talent before it terrified Hollywood.
Ridley's debut foreshadows 'The Reflecting Skin': working-class beauty vs grotesque wealth, filmed like a corrupted memory.
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