Skeletons (2010)

"Skeletons" is a very strange little British film--one with a lot to offer but also very confusing and slow. It's a movie you might just want to see twice. David (Ed Gaughan) and Bennett (Andrew Buckley) are two psychic workers who work for some unknown agency or company. They travel about the UK ridding people of the skeletons in their closet--sort of like exorcising unpleasant secrets and angst. However, they come upon a case where their gadgets and skills don't seem to be working. A woman's husband has been missing for years and she spends all her time digging about the property looking for his grave....and the investigators come to try to rid the family of this skeleton. But there is much more to the case and the mute daughter is far more knowledgeable about all this.This film is almost like a comedy with most of the funny stuff removed. Instead, it comes off as quirky and odd. I really liked Gaughan and Buckley--these paunchy, ordinary looking guys were quite entertaining. But the story itself left me a bit flat...and occasionally confused. You'll figure it all out eventually...but it's a movie that is occasionally a challenge. Worth seeing, perhaps...if you are very patient and don't mind a strange independent film which, at times, seems a bit rudderless.

At first I thought this film was too bonkers even for me as the beginning was not easy to follow. However I persisted and the story fell into place. I eventually got into it and by the end loved it to bits. Whoever made this film should be very proud.I found the atmosphere a bit Jonathan Creek/ Dr Who / Amelie like, for example mysterious/fantasy/comic and even romantic. I thought it was beautifully filmed and brilliantly acted. I don't know how to describe the plot a couple of oddballs solving mysteries and finding themselves? It is set in modern day England but with some old fashioned twists. If you like unusual quirky films give this one a go.

I was really surprised upon watching this film on the BBC. It was intriguing and highly worth a view. The casting was great, and considering the low budget, the filming was superb and really drew me in. The suspense really builds up in the film and so you really don't know what to expect as the film progresses. I loved the rapport between the two male leads. I think it is one of the best British films I have seen in years. It is a shame that it didn't reach a wider audience, although I guess the humour wouldn't be to everyone's taste. I'm going to recommend it to all my friends to check out. I hope the writer/director makes some more films.

Bickering best friends Davies (Ed Gaughan) and Beckett (Andrew Buckley) make a living from psychically uncovering the skeletons in people's closets. Metaphorical skeletons, but real closets. As the intense Davies nears a nostalgic meltdown, his amiable, lumbering companion yearns for a normal existence, and their boss (a gruff, northern Jason Isaacs, in a flat cap) eyes them for promotion, they're pitched into the trickiest case of their career. The film starts off in a precise, literate comic manner, with hilarious scenes of obscure bureaucracy and awkward revelations, then gets stranger and stranger as it progresses. Though the whydunit isn't terribly mysterious, the film's frequent dips into the world of weird - dizzying diversions that drop the characters into one another's dreams and reminiscences - are satisfyingly original, the largely unknown cast is excellent and the film never forgets to be funny. "Going Bulgarian" must be my favourite comic invention of the decade so far.