Not exact matches
British filmmaker Wheatley follows up his terrific debut
Down Terrace with another genre - bending
film that continually catches us off guard.
I think so highly of Ben Wheatley's first two
films,
Down Terrace and Kill List, that I believe a blind recommendation is warranted.
British filmmaker Wheatley follows up his terrific debut
Down Terrace with another genre - bending
film that...
Wheatley has used Smiley in previous
films (
Down Terrace and Kill List).
DOWN TERRACE is like a Coen brothers movie crossbred with a Ken Loach
film.
Even those who cackled and cringed through Ben Wheatley's Brighton - based crime satire
Down Terrace (also the best British picture of 2010), may find themselves recoiling at certain moments in his second
film, Kill List.
Down Terrace is a surprising
film, fitting in more to the kitchen sink drama mould of British filmmaking than the thumping soundtrack and bravado of Guy Richie's criminal visions.
Wheatley, who also directed the 2009 crime comedy «
Down Terrace,» has a penchant for»70s
films.
In fact, this definitive shoot «em up, which tested just how long you can riff on little but bullets and banter during a protracted massacre in a Boston warehouse, was shot on the edge of its makers» Brighton hometown, just as their no - budget debut
Down Terrace had been six
films (and only eight years) ago.
Based on a script by former Emmerdale writer Paul Roundell, Bait is a gripping, brutal British horror that could easily have been missold as one of those «gritty» crime
films that Danny Dyer and / or Terry Stone, but both Roundell and Brunt have an instinctive understanding of the horror genre (in this respect, it recalls Ben Wheatley's debut,
Down Terrace).