De skrigende halse

A Danish film cultural treasure with lots of talented actors.

Thomas Bo Larsen - Martin Brygman - sofie Gråbøl - Søren Plmark - Søren Fauli & Lise Ringheim.

It is a funny movie with takes its point from the punk scene in Copenhagen 1980, and the musical culture of the small bands.

The thing with 'drengen' is still a great part of the danish language today.

The importance of making a record is not so great today, but can be equated with getting enoughpublicity.

The plot is brilliant and the story is well told.

The most brilliant thing is the fact that the head doctor who abuses the patient is a woman.

This movie is a landmark of danish made-for-tv movies.

It features a number of actors who later went on to make it really big and it's truly hillarious. Unfortunately it's quite hard to get hold of even though it was released some years later commercially.

If you get a chance you should check it out. It's a brilliant satirical comedy of the underground music scene and it has more than its share of good moments.

A true cult classic.

Being made on a small budget, and with fairly unknown actors (bar one or two), the movie quickly outgrew any expectations it had before release. It was instant fame, mostly due to the excellently chosen casting. De Skrigende Halse takes place in an underground Punk miljeu, where a band is desperately trying to make it big. After a fiasco concert, in order to avoid confrontation, the guitarist claims he has a terminal illness. The local conman/drug dealer/record producer, Djarnis, decides to make a commemorative Vinyl recording with the band. The sudden fame, but also the consequences of his lie, causes unwanted problems for Ronni, and without much effort, he is in a world of trouble.

The mood and the excellent acting in this film, makes it cult. It is one of Søren Pilmark's most well known roles, largely due to his manic projection of Djarnis, who is a control freak and a thoroughly unsympathetic person. The film is definitely worth a watch, if possible to find with English subs at all.

Ronni is a guitarist in "De Skrigende Halse"( The Screaming Necks (!?)) a punk band in the mid-eighties. He´s popularity within the band is dropping because of his recurring stomach problems makes it hard to finish the training sessions. Ronni faints under a concert just to wake up to a lot of angry faces. To calm things down he tells everyone that he´s so weak because he´s dying. His "imminent" dead naturally causes a lot of attention towards him in the local punk scene and things start to happen for the band.

A fairly good comedy flick with a few really memorable scenes and a decent amount of laughs. It might not be to everyone´s taste but what the heck it only lasts about an hour so you don´t risk too much. 6/10

A movie that goes behind the environment and shows how life can be behind the underground. This is an underground must-see cult movie. You will feel like you know the characters from the first farme. Feel the sorrows and anguish. Their toil through life and how they deal with the problems they get.