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Tommy Cowley (Aneurin Barnard) lives a quiet life in a decaying apartment complex with his very pregnant wife. The couple is attacked one day by a group of hooded young thugs, and after a shocking act of violence, Tommy is left to raise his newborn daughter alone - forever traumatised by the attack. Suffering from extreme agoraphobia, Tommy alternates his days hiding out from imagined threats in his new apartment and intense therapy sessions aimed at bringing him back to normalcy. But when the same hooded gang returns to terrorise Tommy again, he's torn between his paralysing fear and protective parental instinct. With the help of a vigilante priest (James Cosmo) who has uncovered the genesis of this ruthless, potentially supernatural gang, Tommy must overcome his fears and venture into the heart of the abandoned tower block known as the 'Citadel' to save his family. (Umbrella Entertainment)
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Brilliant social horror. Citadel is a dirty and depressive story drawing from 1970s David Cronenberg (The Brood, Shivers). It’s not something you see much these days, so I’m very satisfied, though it’s lacking something to go all the way to the top. For instance, I would do away with the secondary characters: the black nurse and the weird parson – it could have been only about Tommy. But there’s no reason to complain, few horror flicks have a better atmosphere.
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Die Briten präsentieren uns einmal wieder Kinder als mörderische Mistkerle (ähnlich wie in "F" oder "Children"), dieses Mal aus dem Umfeld einer schmutzigen und möglicherweise völlig leeren Siedlung. Eine gewisse Ähnlichkeit zieht jedoch bis zu den höchsten Stellen - natürlich meine ich Cronenbergs "The Brood" - vor allem durch das Thema: mutierte Schurken entführen andere Kinder zur Erhaltung ihrer Art, sie ernähren sich von menschlicher Angst und greifen ab und zu brutal jemanden an. Seine Qualität erreicht sicher nicht, aber man kann ihm eine gewisse Depression und einige fast adrenalinhaltige Momente nicht absprechen (siehe Bus). Das Ende habe ich jedoch besser erwartet.
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