Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
Acting
Peter Ferdinando's mumbled, physically committed descent.
Direction
Johnson's refusal to aestheticize poverty or violence.
Director
Gerard Johnson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on the director's actual estate with locals; that pub scene features real regulars who didn't know they were in a film.
Part of a wave of 'miserabilist' British horror alongside 'Kill List' and 'Sightseers'—Thatcher's grandchildren finally getting their revenge.
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