K-Shop
Bloody vengeance comes to the streets of a British seaside town in this darkly comic horror. A kebab shop owner's son becomes a creative vigilante as he takes grisly revenge on the violent youths who killed his father.
15 December 1988, Johannesburg, South Africa
29 November 1972, Liverpool, England, UK
3 June 1977, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, UK
2 June 1989, Havant, Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK
July 22, 2016
With strong work from a good cast (Abaza in particular), this joins a small group of British horror films rooted in observation and anger.July 27, 2016
Dan Pringle may have just made a future cult classic in this twisted tale.July 24, 2016
This short film idea can't sustain a feature, no matter how much chilli sauce and cranial trauma you pack into it.July 21, 2016
The film doesn't actually judge people for their behaviour, but that's not to say it doesn't take gleeful relish in acting out precisely the kind of thing that many of us have thought about, whether we're willing to admit it or not.July 22, 2016
In K-Shop, a little shop of horrors emerges in a kebab takeaway.April 09, 2017
Writer-director Dan Pringle intersperses his protagonist's gory actions with verité footage of inebriated night-time revelry on the streets of Bournemouth that proves even more nauseating.July 27, 2016
It may not be the most subtle take on 'binge Britain', but first-time writer/director Dan Pringle has a gift for the gruesome.July 22, 2016
This is a very promising debut.July 24, 2016
If your local high street is a swill of foul-mouthed, drunken louts every weekend then K-Shop will definitely strike a chord.July 21, 2016
There is no focus, it runs out of ideas, and we get endless ambient shots of people getting drunk in the streets. It sags - which is a shame.July 24, 2016
There's definitely more substance here than the usual penny dreadful, but ambition without accomplishment only goes so far.