When a movie's opening credits, simple white text on a black background, can have you chuckling several times, you know you're in good hands; this is a film that's not going to miss a single chance to lob in a daft joke.

My wife had gone to bed, but I thought it would be safe to watch Holy Grail late tonight because I've seen it so many times that surely I wouldn't still find myself laughing out loud, but I…

I read recently that the original Stockholm syndrome story is based on a lie, and isn't a true account of what actually happened during that 1973 bank robbery. But that didn't mean it isn't a thing that has occurred in other cases; presumably it must have, otherwise the concept would be a forgotten curio of wild psychological hypothesis.

Anyway, that's what this film is about. A serial killer rapes a woman until she likes it, and years later their apparently…

Extract from HAMLET by William Shakespeare:

FIRST GRAVEDIGGER
Is she to be buried in Christian burial that
wilfully seeks her own salvation?

SECOND GRAVEDIGGER
I tell thee she is: and therefore make her grave
straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it
Christian burial.

FIRST GRAVEDIGGER
How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her
own defence?

SECOND GRAVEDIGGER
It must be "se offendendo"; it cannot be else. For
here lies the point: if I drown myself…

For my money, this movie has the greatest ever ratio of atmosphere per dollar of budget. I would say that its $900,000 bought about 15 atmospheres, which is 1.69 pascals per dollar.

To put this in perspective, something like The Neon Demon is admittedly even more atmospheric than Brain Damage - it has maybe 40 atmospheres. But on a budget of $7 million, that's only 0.579 pascals per dollar. (There are 101,325 pascals in 1 atmosphere, and that's yer actual…