How do you make a lurid
film without being salacious? That was
the challenge for writer/director Peter Stylianou when he set about to make Who
Needs Enemies.
The subject matter was so
dicey that he had to fund the film independently — the low budget doesn’t even
register here thanks to some terrific photography, outstanding editing and both
set-lighting and decoration that points to a production many times the value of
what Stylianou had to work with.
But the real selling
point here is the cast — somehow Ian Pirie (Les Misérables, The Dark Knight,
Gangs of New York, etc.) and Michael McKell (Will, Beneath
Still Waters and as DI Trevor Hands on the Brit crime series, Murder
Investigation Team) signed on and they are absolutely amazing.
First to business,
FilmWorks Entertainment has picked up the domestic distribution of this sleeper
for the DVD market place. The street
date will be Oct. 22.
Now to the film
itself. Pirie plays Tom Sheridan, a
local thug, former boxer and the owner of a “gentleman’s club” (a strip joint,
if you will), while McKell is Ian Levine, a confidant with some pretty shady
connections. Basically they are Brit
gangsters (think: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels if you need a reference
point).
That revelation of what
his club was used for starts a war when he threatens to expose his buddy for
something that even the toughest street thugs cannot abide by … child
prostitution! Hang-on, it’s going to
get bloody … very bloody!
Bonus features for this
Brit crime thriller — independent filmmaking at its very best — include a photo
gallery and a making-of featurette.
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