With just over a week to go until Attack on the Block invades UK cinemas, distributors Optimum Releasing have unleashed a brand new, and toothy, poster for the film that looks to strike fear into the hearts of unsuspecting cinemagoers! OK, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but this is definitely an effective new one-sheet poster:
Trainee nurse Sam is walking home to her flat in a scary South London tower block when she’s 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 fall. 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.
Attack The Block, comes from writer/director Joe Cornish (of Adam & Joe fame) and stars Nick Frost, Luke Treadaway and Jodie Whitaker. The film is released in cinemas on May 11th.
