New Town Killers

New Town Killers

2008 · 97 min · EN · 5.7 (36 votes)
Dir. Richard Jobson · Starring Dougray Scott, Alastair Mackenzie, James Anthony Pearson, Liz White, Charles Mnene, Shelley Conn

A game. A hunt. A kill.

ThrillerDrama

Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She's in debt, he's going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash.

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A cold, unsettling thriller that pits the privileged against the desperate in a brutal game of cat and mouse. It's a grim, propulsive descent into moral rot, leaving you feeling uneasy and questioning humanity.

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