Burning Men (2019)

Burning Men: Directed by Jeremy Wooding. With Edward Hayter, Aki Omoshaybi, Elinor Crawley, Katie Collins. When young musicians Ray (Ed Hayter) and Don (Aki Omoshaybi) are evicted from their South London squat, they decide to sell their precious vinyl collection and fly to Memphis in search of their destiny. Frustrated by the shortfall in funds, they steal an uber-rare Black Metal record at a Camden record fair and head out of town to sell it. As they drive north in their beaten-up Volvo Amazon, picking up hitchhiker Susie (Elinor Crawley) en route, they find themselves stalked by dark forces apparently unleashed by the devil disc they have stolen.

“I went to a screening followed by Qu0026amp;A with the Director and others, but didnu0026#39;t bother to stay for the Qu0026amp;A — after seeing the movie, I just wasnu0026#39;t interested to know more. It wasnu0026#39;t terrible, it just wasnu0026#39;t very good (hence my 6 out of 10 rating). The camerawork was often tediously jerky: probably intended to be u0026quot;edgyu0026quot;, but instead just felt amateur. I enjoyed the wide shots evoking the flat East Anglian landscape, but there were too many road movie clichés (e.g. a succession of road signs to chart our herosu0026#39; progress northwards). It felt like it could have been made in the 1960s or u0026#39;70s. The frequent close-up POV to-camera shots were straight out of _Peep Show_ (which also has two male leads, pretty female sidekicks, internal monologues, and so on).”