The Ghoul
- 2016
- 1h 21min
- 15
- Directed by: Gareth Tunley
- Written by: Gareth Tunley
- Cast: Tom Meeten, Alice Lowe, Rufus Jones
- UK release: 4 August 2017
Depressed Chris (Meeten) lives in a pokey bedsit, obsessing over his married college friends Kathleen (Lowe) and Jim (Skinner), until he starts to immerse himself in a detective fantasy. Tunley’s debut feature is about the workings of a fractured mind, flirting with psychedelia and parody, embracing its low-budget Britishness. Raw and rough, but effective.
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The Ghoul
31 Jul 2017
Shape-shifting British drama from debut writer-director Gareth Tunley, starring Tom Meeten
A maverick former policeman goes undercover as a patient in a film where nothing is as it first seems. Writer-director Gareth Tunley's debut feature boasts frantic, collage-like visuals that emulate the workings of a fractured mind, as we meet a man…
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