The buzz continues to build for ATTACK THE BLOCK. The flick screened in 25 major cities across the country last month, and the results were nearly unanimously positive. If you missed out on it, fear not – Sony Screen Gems will release it in theaters on July 29.
And if you can’t wait that long? Well, we have the new red band trailer for the flick below. Personally, I’m holding off on watching it, as I hear that it’s the kind of movie that’s best to go into blindly and the trailer will spoil a bit of that, but I know some of you just can’t wait!
The sci-fi/action film is written and directed by Joe Cornish. It is executive produced by SHAUN OF THE DEAD director Edgar Wright and stars SHAUN’s Nick Frost, along with Jodie Whittaker, John Boyega, Alex Esmail, Franz Drameh, Leeon Jones, Simon Howard, Luke Treadaway and Jumayn Hunter.
Trainee nurse Sam is walking home to her flat in a scary South London tower block and gets robbed by a gang of masked, hooded youths. She’s saved when the gang are distracted by a bright meteorite, which falls from the sky and hits a nearby parked car. Sam flees, just before the gang are attacked by a small alien creature that leaps from the wreckage. The gang chase the creature and kill it, dragging its ghoulish carcass to the top of the block, which they treat as their territory.
While Sam and the police hunt for the gang, a second wave of meteors falls. Confident of victory against such feeble invaders, the gang grab weapons, mount bikes and mopeds, and set out to defend their turf. But this time the creatures are bigger. Much bigger. Savage, shadowy and bestial, they are hunting their fallen comrade, and nothing will stand in their way. The estate is about to become a battleground! And the bunch of no-hope kids who just attacked Sam are about to become her, and the block’s, only hope.
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