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Ian Simpson, the man behind Nadine, a lo-fi urban tale of an abused girl which both Rick (review) and I loved, has been quietly working on his newest feature. Man in Wood is an experimental piece on consciousness with horror elements which Simpson describes as "a cross between Fulci and Bresson." Below is a brief description, which we announced two years ago. [Continued ...]...

Year: 2008

Directors: Ian Simpson

Writers: Ian Simpson

IMDb: link

Trailer: trailer 1 trailer 2

Review by: Rick McGrath

Rating: 9 out of 10

“Nadine, is that you? Every time I see you, you’ve got something else to do…” Chuck Berry may have been perplexed about the restless activities of his future bride, but he’s not even in the same tenement flat as Ian Simpson, who actually follows his Nadine as she finds lots of something else to do.

None of it nice.

Shot in a seductive mixture of arthouse cool and cinema verité brutal, Nadine is an incredibly powerful look at what it means when “some day… everything goes wrong” for a psychologically disturbed teen at the ignored end of Britain’s impoverished lower classes. The basic plot was revealed on Quiet Earth when Nadine’s second trailer was posted: "Nadine, a teenage girl who is a regular self-harmer, is subjected to a hostile mother,...