A £50 train fine becomes a cosmic nightmare in the weirdest horror-comedy you'll see this year.
When an unpaid train fine comes back to haunt him, Ralph, a black British Brummie, flees London to a forest motel where a temporary hideout becomes a nightmarish purgatory and he's forced to confront the loss of his father.
Acting
Walker-Edwards carries impossible tonal shifts like it's nothing.
Direction
Bartlett weaponizes mundane British bureaucracy into genuine dread.
Writing
Dialogue that stings with authentic Brummie working-class exhaustion.
Director
George Louis Bartlett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in actual Birmingham locations during lockdown, giving the empty streets an accidental post-apocalyptic quality that Bartlett leaned into.
The £50 fine that triggers everything? Based on a real UK law where unpaid penalties can escalate to criminal records — the horror is literally systemic.
GB
US
