Acting
Joe Cole's simmering intensity carries every frame.
Direction
Ron Scalpello's cramped framing makes walls feel like enemies.
Director
Ron Scalpello
Joe Cole
Tommy Nix
English Frank
Jake
Kimberley Nixon
Elise
Shaun Dooley
Nash
Vas Blackwood
Detective Boaz
Israel Oba
Mason
David Ajala
Kelvin
Jacob Anderson
Patrick
Mark Harris
Governor Davis
Ruth Gemmell
Officer Cassie
Aymen Hamdouchi
Kamal
Malachi Kirby
Harry
Finn Cole
Riot Boy
Simon Phillips
Probation Officer John
India Knight
Aimee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot at a real decommissioned prison in Dover, giving those corridors genuine institutional dread.
Scalpello cited Alan Clarke's 'Scum' as direct influence—this is modern British prison cinema's angry grandchild.
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