12 July 2013
This confused, mostly clunky, but occasionally involving, low-budget horror/thriller won the Midnighter Audience Award at the SXSW festival. We're in a non-salubrious part of Glasgow and elfin-faced Aneurin Barnard, (a Welsh heart-throb, apparently), is Tommy, a young father and widow, convinced that the vicious young thugs who killed his wife are now after his baby daughter. He's the reason you keep watching, though the sweary, demented local priest (James Cosmo) is good for a laugh and first-time Irish writer-director Ciaran Foy certainly knows how to light grimy urban spaces. A basement scene, involving cages and cots, is an eerie standout.
