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No bigger image availableBook Wench Comments: ‘Fear in Firland’ is a true masterpiece, written in the 1970s by the vicar of Ladywood, it has all the worst bits of Narnia thrown in with some Native American (?) possibly Middle Ages… something… Any cover that can combine flying saucers and squirrels are okay with me!
Published 1974
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July 5th, 2012 at 10:01 am
“Aw heck! Here comes Xenu to crash the party!” Seriously, this does look like cult literature you might unwittingly get handed in the street.
July 5th, 2012 at 11:18 am
Forgot to post the back cover blurb:
“Young King Richard and his friends are working hard to create the free, happy land of their dreams. Their peace is shattered when a race of insect-like creatures arrive in space ships… the exciting story of how the time-travelling wizard…d Greylin goes forward into the present from the fifth century to find help. After a number of false starts he returns with three teenage cousins and a secret weapon to defeat the invaders.”
July 5th, 2012 at 1:33 pm
Once again the members of the Star Trek club prepare to crash the Ren Faire.
July 5th, 2012 at 3:17 pm
Blondes have no fun in Firland.
July 5th, 2012 at 4:07 pm
I read “Fear in Finland” at first. And the double take award goes to:
the lei’d baby deer
July 6th, 2012 at 3:09 am
Just to quote the wonderful ending:
“..we have one big question. We all want to know how you did it. What was the white powder? It was not paprika…pepper…was it?”
“Poof! No!” said Angela. “We wouldn’t waste good pepper on that lot.”
“As a matter of fact,” said Edward, “it was DDT. They were only insects after all!”
With such quality writing, it’s little wonder this is such a classic…
July 7th, 2012 at 6:40 am
Good to know that even though they come from the other end of the galaxy, the space people also use a varmint-based currency system.
July 7th, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Are we sure this isn’t a rejected cover for a Däniken book?
July 17th, 2012 at 7:38 pm
That font and colour coordination really strains the eyes!
Is it me or does everyone there seems to have a haughty look about them?
January 18th, 2014 at 1:04 pm
I would give a tenner [1] to have some more prose samples from this book! And then put them through The Mocking Program for that gritty, cyberpunk post-Thatcher nihilistic je ne sais quoi.
[1] I would prefer to give someone else’s tenner, but I’m flexible. 😉
July 21st, 2015 at 1:53 am
Lars von Trier’s Fear in Firland (1999)
PG |100 min | Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Good Show Sir! | 27 November 1999 (UK/Japan)
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Ratings: 7.9/10 from 271828 users Metascore 65/100
Reviews: 314 user | 15 critic | 14 from metacritic.com
Young King Richard and his friends are working hard to create the free, happy land of their dreams. Their peace is shattered when…(more)
Director: Lars von Trier
Writers: Rev. Norman Power (novel) | Yuko Tojo (adaptation)
Stars: Craig Charles, Matt Damon, Peaches Geldoff | See full cast and crew>>
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Cast
Complete credited cast:
Toshi…………………..King Richard
Kaori Moritani…………Queen Guenevere
Pat Moriya……………Greylin the Wizard
Peaches Geldoff.…….Angela
Craig Charles……..…Edward
Matt Damon………….Matthew
Gackt……………..…..Dr. Mephisto Mandible
Mally…………………..Lady in Waiting
Tierra……………..…..Lady in Waiting
SPF-50………………..It’s Self [sic]
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ae Woo-Sung…………Alien Guard
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Storyline
Young King Richard and his friends are working hard to create the free, happy land of their dreams. Their peace is shattered when a race of insect-like creatures arrive in space ships that resemble vulvae. This is the exciting story of how the time-travelling wizard Nietzsche Greylin goes forward into the present from the fifth century to find help. After a number of false starts he begins to question his own existence and the nature of belief. In what may be a dream, he returns with three teenage cousins and a secret weapon to defeat the invaders.
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Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis
Plot Keywords: time travel | wizard | boy | girl | wizaaaard | lei | ennui | giant insect gives birth backwards at high speed | See all (117) >>
Taglines: Our adventure through time begins (uk) | Fight! For our mighty Firland nation we must expel the invaders and defend our king! (jp)
Genres: Science fiction | Fantasy | Revisionism | Paranoia |Flying Fanged Penises |Good Show, Sir!
Certificate: UK:12A | X Japan
Parents Guide: Profanity: 1 instance of ‘Holy smegging ball-slapping fartzappers!’ (outtake?) | See all (21) >>
Details
Country: UK | Japan
Language: English | English (dubbed)
Release dates: 27 November 1999
Also known as: この田高には、絶対に勝つ！ See more>>
Filming locations: International waters off of the eastern Japanese coast See more>>
Box office
Budget: ¥4,000,000,000 (estimated)
Opening weekend: -£36,949
Gross: Mm, rather.
Credits
Production Co: Granada Films, News Corp, Zaibatsu Eigo (defunct)
Technical Specs
Runtime: 115 minutes
Sound mix: Violently Digital
Colour: Color
Aspec ratio: 9 aspecs : 2 ipecacs
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Did you know?
Trivia: During the bankruptcy hearing for Zaibatsu Eigo, it emerged that the director had grabbed unemployed immigrants off the street and forced them at gunpoint to don insect suits—a process that could last anything from four to eleven hours—and act as extras.
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Goofs: According to the Craig Charles, no persons were supposed to actually ingest insecticide on camera.
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Quotes:
King Richard: ‘We all want to know how you did it. What was the white powder? It was not paprika…pepper…was it?’
Angela: ’Homosexual! No!’
[the forest catches fire and burns]
Matthew: ‘MATT DAMON! MATT DAMON!’
Angela: ‘We wouldn’t waste good pepper on that lot.’
Edward: ‘Ehm, as a matter of fact, it was DDT. They was only insects after all, matey!’
[blood explodes from the the ladies-in-waiting]
SPF-50: ‘Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.’
Matthew: ‘CHAOS REIGNS!’
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Crazy Credits:
As Peaches Geldoff recites the credits from a slip of paper, the director can be seen in the background savaging costumed extras with a broken bottle.
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Connections:
Clips shown in the documentary ’The Case for Bombing Japan Again’ by Lt. Col. Oliver North (ret.).
Soundtrack:
ら知名度リアル 知名度ある無苗
Music by Toshi, Gackt
Lyrics by Lars von Trier
Performed by vague threats and hostile innuendo
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User Reviews
********00 So many memories
13 May 2014 by omesickinnyc
In the village where I grew up, this was one of two vhs movies we had, the other being a bootlegged copy of secret of the ooze. well do I remember late friday afternoon, when papa would start the gasoline generator for the electrical system and mama would make plantain and oatmeal porridge for the customes. Just at sundown, the town would file in grimly and take their seats in front of the bedsheet strung across the front of papa’s store to see the weekly double feature. Sometimes he wouldn’t even charge them for tickets. When I was nine, the scene where the alien general is trying to caress matthew’s cheek and matthew is running around and soiling himself drove a pregnant woman into labour. the little newborn girl was named simone.
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March 16th, 2017 at 9:19 am
I find “Fear in Firland” failing, for the Foreword finds forty factual faults.
March 17th, 2017 at 3:43 am
@DSWBT, that IMDB entry is a work of genius. (Why did no one ever tell poor Gackt what his name sounds like to English speakers?)
So, erm, they set up their little idyllic utopia in the 5th century (with just a bit of DDT to help kill off some of the happy forest creatures like fish and birds), and then what? The migrations of plenty of barbarian tribes in the era wipes ’em out anyway? Some sort of Goths or Huns or whatnot kill them all? Yay?
August 2nd, 2021 at 12:13 pm
I just recently saw this and wanted to give it a bump for all the excellent comments, especially DSWBT’s parody of imdb.
August 2nd, 2021 at 11:00 pm
@Tor: Yes, everyone was in good form on this one.
I miss DSWBT. I hope he’s well, wherever he is.
August 3rd, 2021 at 5:54 am
@GSS ex-noob: yes indeed. Such efforts should inspire us to work harder on our snarking – nay, to move beyond simple snarking into the perilous realms of actual parody, and, dare I say it – satire?
Also, whatever happened to SPF-50s film career?
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