It's a quirky little flick that's like a car crash between Sir Henry at Rawlinson End and A Clockwork Orange. There's enough to keep you watching till the end despite being completely populated by despicable characters that you really wish the worst for. It's not hard to see why this vanished without a trace because it's aimed squarely at a very niche market. If you like your more bonkers end of 60's cinema, it's a rare treat.

An amazing darkly comic horror film overflowing with perversity, Freddie Francis' GIRLY is the story of a psychotic British family that kidnaps people and forces them to take part in their childish games -- but those who don't play along die. Among the family is the crazed Girly (Vanessa Howard), who takes a shine to their latest captor (Michael Bryant).

But when their "new friend" is not getting close to Girly, he's slowly pitting the rest of the family against each other, including Mumsy (Ursula Howells) and Nanny (Pat Heywood). There are far more laughs than actual scares or gore in GIRLY, but Francis and screenwriter Brian Comport deliver a nearly perfect portrait of a dysfunctional family that usually solves things with murder.

Decent premise - family of eccentric psychos live in a large, crumbling home dominated by Mumsy and her rules in a perversion of 1950s upper class life, set at the fag end of the swinging 60s - but badly let down by the irritating characters, who never really disturb, just annoy. Any money the League of Gentlemen have seen it, though.

If you're a fan of strange films you should watch this, it's not very horrific or very sexy but Vanessa Howard is amazing and there are some interesting extras on the DVD

I tried watching NANNY, MOMSY, SONNY, & GIRLY last night. I was into it at first. It was like A Clockwork Orange, full of odd, British, maniacal whimsy, mixed with the child abductors scenes from Running Scared. It was weird, but in a good way. That only lasted for about the first 15 minutes though until I realized that the movie wasn’t going to go completely in one direction or the other. In order for a flick like this to work properly it either has to go totally off-the-wall-batshit insane, or it has to hold nothing back on the violence and gore, giallo-style. It didn’t do either. Instead, it tried to perform an awkward balancing act right in between the two. The result was a frustratingly not-strange-enough snoozer.

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wasn't scary at all... nor creepy in a realistic way like it should've been. After i while, i got bored with the silly unconvincing insanity they were trying to sell. i liked the rhyming songs. plus, girly was pretty and charming in a strange irritating way.

best film featuring a sexy killer schoolgirl you'll ever see .

It's a quirky little flick that's like a car crash between Sir Henry at Rawlinson End and A Clockwork Orange. There's enough to keep you watching till the end despite being completely populated by despicable characters that you really wish the worst for. It's not hard to see why this vanished without a trace because it's aimed squarely at a very niche market. If you like your more bonkers end of 60's cinema, it's a rare treat.

Decent premise - family of eccentric psychos live in a large, crumbling home dominated by Mumsy and her rules in a perversion of 1950s upper class life, set at the fag end of the swinging 60s - but badly let down by the irritating characters, who never really disturb, just annoy. Any money the League of Gentlemen have seen it, though.

An amazing darkly comic horror film overflowing with perversity, Freddie Francis' GIRLY is the story of a psychotic British family that kidnaps people and forces them to take part in their childish games -- but those who don't play along die. Among the family is the crazed Girly (Vanessa Howard), who takes a shine to their latest captor (Michael Bryant).

But when their "new friend" is not getting close to Girly, he's slowly pitting the rest of the family against each other, including Mumsy (Ursula Howells) and Nanny (Pat Heywood). There are far more laughs than actual scares or gore in GIRLY, but Francis and screenwriter Brian Comport deliver a nearly perfect portrait of a dysfunctional family that usually solves things with murder.