When a container washes ashore the residents of a sleepy cul-de-sac are plunged into violence, terror and paranoia. Ring fenced by the military a single mother must overcome all the odds to save her daughter.
Practical Effects
The creature design hits that sweet spot of gross and genuinely unsettling.
Acting
Neve McIntosh commits completely to maternal terror in a confined space.
Direction
Gough stretches budget limitations into claustrophobic strength.
Director
Lawrence Gough
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed in Liverpool on a shoestring budget, the entire neighborhood set was a single street they had to redress repeatedly for different stages of destruction.
Released during the H1N1 pandemic, the quarantine imagery hit uncomfortably close to reality for 2009 audiences who'd just lived through swine fever panic.
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