Heartless (2009)

Recommended

UK/USA

Feature Film

Writer/Director: Philip Ridley

Cinematographer: Matt Gray

Composer: David Julyan

Cast: Jim Sturgess, Joseph Mawle, Nikita Mistry, Clémence Poésy, Noel Clarke, Luke Treadaway, Eddie Marsan, Timothy Spall, Ruth Sheen, Justin Salinger

In film-maker Ridley’s first film for 14 years – an inventive, thrilling, and generally fresh if vaguely familiar horror film – fantastic demonic and naturalistic urban horrors collide, as a troubled, birth-marked young man, after the violent death of his mother, makes a Faustian pact with a be-mulleted demon named Papa B, which only serves to further pull him into the nightmarish world in which he finds himself. Iain.Stott