A couple of weeks ago, the first trailer for Attack The Block arrived, and now a poster has been released over at /Film. Joe Cornish’s film has been getting some good buzz at fesitval screenings (although there’s some talk of whether they’ll subtitle it in the US, due to the heacy South London accents and slang).
Attach The Block sees extra-terrestrial invaders descend on a south London housing estate and it’s up to a group of teens to reluctantly take on the menace. 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. Directed by Joe Cornish of Adam and Joe fame, the film hits cinemas on May 13th.