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The Room Next Door review: Tilda and Julianne are impeccable in debut English film for legendary Spanish director, writes BRIAN VINER
BRIAN VINER: With the current brouhaha over assisted dying, and MPs due to vote next month on whether to legalise it in the UK, the Spanish director Pedro Almodovar has chosen a burning-hot topic
A mixed-race couple, the heavily pregnant Belinda (Brandy Norwood) and her ineffectual husband Norman (Andrew Burnap), are compelled to share a home with his despised and difficult stepmother Solange (Kathryn Hunter, giving a genuine tour de force as she fully inhabits the part of a nightmarish live-in relative). This week's 40th anniversary re-release, just in time for Halloween, reminds us why A Nightmare On Elm Street (HHHHH, 15, 91 mins) remains such a seminal slasher film and why Krueger (Robert Englund, left), the sadistic dead child-killer with a burning grievance who infiltrated the dreams of impressionable teenagers (one of them played by 21-year-old Johnny Depp in his movie debut), became such an iconic screen psycho. To recap, this is the third and (here's hoping) final outing for Tom Hardy (the sole reason to watch this) as troubled journalist Eddie Brock, who gained super-villain powers after becoming the host of a chatty fanged alien symbiote called Venom, who likes to munch off baddies' heads.
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