PREVIEW: Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (15 TBC)

WHO’S IN IT?

Mike Mort (film debut), Jennifer Saunders (Shrek 2), Paul Whitehouse (The Personal History of David Copperfield), Dan Russell (Boo, Zino & the Snurks), Jonnie Fiori (Powder Room), Samantha Coughlan (Love Me Do)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Mike Mort (film debut), director, writer, producer; Joseph D’Morais (Blonde Fist), Randhir Singh (film debut) and Rupert Lywood (Tsotsi), producers; Joris de Man (film debut), composer; Laura Howie (film debut), cinematographer; Stuart Bruce (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

In the mid-1980s, renegade lone-wolf cop Chuck Steel (Mort) investigates a series of disappearances which turn out to be the work of a deadly horde of “Trampires” – a hybrid of tramp and vampire – and who must now be eliminated by Chuck and his outrageous methods…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

This outrageous stop-motion action extravaganza playfully sends-up classic 80s B-movie tropes with its own tongue-in-cheek humour and hilariously gory violence.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 29TH OCTOBER 2021

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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