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Year:	2010
Country of origin:	UK
Director:	Johannes Roberts
Genre:	Hoodies from Hell
Starring:	David Schofield, Eliza Bennett
Rating:	4/5
IMDB link:	http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1486670/
Tagline:	No tagline
Favourite line:	"I've had it with you little brats."

Modern British cinema generally conjures images of worthy period dramas, gritty Northern emoti-soaps, or cheeky chappy Cockney gangster fackin’ slaaags.
So, here’s some proper horror to stuff down your disgusting maws, instead.

The plot:
A jaded teacher, fond of bullying those in his class who do not achieve academically, gets his comeuppance when a student heads-butts him for marking a paper F.
Skip forward eleven months, and the teacher, Mr. Anderson – can’t help but think of The Matrix when I hear that name – is preparing to return to work after a leave of absence.
One night, working late due to dishing out a detention to his own daughter for her surly attitude in class, the school comes under siege from a gang of hoodies, and all those inside the building turn from staff members into prey.

It’s a slasher movie, folks, the twist being the school setting.
But it’s more than that, too.
The gang of youths, realised as faceless, identikit hoodlums, hoods always up, faces obscured – think the Jawa’s from Star Wars, but in place of the glowing red eyes is simply…void – are political animals; the Daily Mail vision of horror that comes from wearing your jeans too low and listening to Grime. The way they move, too, a comment on the perception of youth; clambering over furniture, on top of book cases, sometimes on all fours, acting like animals. Silent, also, incapable of human communication, knowing only violence and hatred and revenge.
The violence, when it comes, is fierce and stomach churning, with the odd moment of true gruel that will challenge the lily-livered.
Well acted, smartly conceived, with a really sinister score to ratchet the tension and creepiness up rather nicely, this is modern horror delivered with considerable clout.
Liked it rather a lot.