Cal McMau directs David Jonsson, Tom Blyth and Alex Hassell in this British prison thriller where a long term inmate is about to be released for good behaviour only for a psychotic bad boy (who wants to takeover the wing’s drug trade) to be moved into his cell.

Had me in a chokehold from start to finish. An overpowering crime genre experience. Akin to A Prophet. Jonsson keeps making excellent career choices and flinches nicely against Blyth’s magnetic agent of chaos. Something this grim shouldn’t be this much fun. Also… goes toe to toe with Raimi’s Send Help when it comes to gushes of gross bodily fluids.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Chaperones (2026)

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