Dir: Ben Wheatley
Cast: Neil Maskell, Myanna Buring, Harry Simpson
It was all down to Empire, not just the magazine but the fellow forumites that I managed to catch this little British beauty. Myanna Buring (Shel) was at Big Screen talking about the film (and Breaking Dawn Part one!), let’s just say she’s a lot different to her character in this than the way she came across in real life, and that rabbit scene was not as funny watching it in the context of the whole film.
What starts out as your typical kitchen sink gangster film, it swiftly changes genres to thriller and then horror, making it have a well-deserved place on this list. Jay (Neil Maskell) is an ex hit man, ex because of a failed job in Kiev. He is also a family man. His friend Gal (Michael Smiley) convinces him to go on a job with him that will pay well (so far so generic), Jay accepts owing to his and his family’s expensive tastes, and we are in a recession are we not? Things take a slight turn for the odd when the “victims” seem thankful for their demise. Here the madness starts.
The thing I loved most about this film is that it was not as typical as you were originally made to believe and even though I knew the ending was inspired by one of the greatest British horror films ever (which I won’t reveal to you), it was still no less shocking as numbing. I and others came out into the cinema foyer in silence; it was quite an eerie experience.
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