Wuthering Heights and a Werewolf...and a Zombie too by Ralph S. King

The 1995 song, “Bad Dreams” by DJ Isaac contains samples of “Wuthering Heights”.Samples of this tune can be heard in a variety of songs, including the 2011 track, “Free”, performed by English artist, Natalia Kills.The first version was directed by Keith “Keef” MacMillan, whereas Rockflix helmed the second version. The video for “Wuthering Heights” came out in 1978 and it comes in two versions.The song came out officially in January 1978 from her debut album ( The Kick Inside).As aforementioned, this song is based on the classic Emily Bronte’s novel of 1847, which has the same title as this track.“Wuthering Heights” holds the distinction of being the maiden single of Kate’s very successful musical career.With regards to the song’s production, it was handled by English record producer, Andrew Powell. Kate Bush did the writing of “Wuthering Heights” all by herself.I have no problem with making Wuthering Heights dark and brooding but make it a bit less daft.

It's not helped by the fact that the actor playing the adult Heathcliff is atrociously bad at his job. Heathcliff has a hard time of it in his youth but has no redeeming features. Most importantly I think the director fails completely in making us feel any sympathy for her characters. the use of pathetic fallacy with the weather is way over the top (the Earnshaws live under a constant biblical downpour whereas there rich neighbours in the next door valley have a climate from a fruit juice advert) the cameraman either had Parkinson's or had been previously employed in one of those American police series where reality is represented by a constantly jerky camera the actors playing the adult Cathy and Heathcliff look nothing like their younger selves - Heathcliff even appears to have changed race! would a 19th century strict Christian father be happy with someone sleeping with his teenage daughter in the house? would a 19th century Heathcliff be able to swan around Edgar house willy nilly? I could go on. There were numerous petty things which annoyed me about this film, e.g. Unfortunately the only shocking thing was that they had managed to make such a bad film out of a classic novel. The director's main aim seemed to be to try and shock audiences who thought they were coming to an Emma Thompson type costume drama by making the film as morose as possible and throwing in lots of swearing, violence and a bit of necrophilia.

It had quite a few walk outs near the beginning (probably the strong Yorkshire accents with lots of background noise made it unintelligible for non native English speakers) and they were the lucky ones as it certainly did not improve over the following 2 hours. Saw this at the Venice film festival last week.

Wuthering Heights and a Werewolf...and a Zombie too by Ralph S. King