The line between a horror movie and a violent thriller can oftentimes blur.
Sometimes, when a thriller gets going, bullets are flying and bones are being broken, and it can have you hiding behind the sofa in the same way a terrifying horror movie is.
That’s the case for one British gangster thriller which is an absolute hidden gem.
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Between the near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, Empire calling it one of the greatest British Gangster movies of all time, and fans being obsessed with it – you can fairly say that this is a must-watch.
That’s all before you hear that it is actually on Netflix in the UK, making it easy as anything to stick on tonight.
The film in question is Bull, a 2021 gangster revenge flick with substance, sauce, and of course – copious amounts of gratuitous violence.
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Check out the trailer and see what you think:
Bull stars Neil Maskell as the titular ‘Bull’, a father seeking revenge against his father-in-law and fellow former gangsters, all for his son.
The film came out in 2021 to minimal fanfare, but has slowly built a following as more and more fans find the incredible gangster flick.
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Empire’s Ian Freer gave the film four stars on release, saying: “[Director] Paul Andrew Williams and Neil Maskell breathe new life into a familiar one-man-army scenario. Unrelenting, no-nonsense and hard-as-nails — just like its eponymous anti-hero.”
The magazine went on to list the movie in their list of the top 15 British gangster movies of all time.
This placed the film on the same platform as classics of the genre such Snatch, In Bruges, and Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels.
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With a 93 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes, reviews were stellar.
Kevin Maher of The Times said: “What makes it so watchable, even despite the stomach-churning violence, is Williams’s clever, non-chronological narrative, which layers in the suggestion that all riddles will be answered with one closing knockout revelation.”
Nick Allen of RogertEbert.com said the film is an ‘incredibly stirring, chilling study of violence that is more unhinged than most others’, whilst Meagan Navarro of horror film experts Bloody Disgusting said: “Bull stuns with its shocking violence, keeps you guessing throughout, then impressively pulls the rug out from under you.”
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This is fitting considering some fans think the film is so violent, it is basically a horror.
One fan posted about the movie on the r/horror subreddit, saying it was ‘fantastic, well made’ and ‘brutal’.
Another 10/10 review on IMDb was titled ‘I think it’s a horror film, and it’s great’, which went on to say: “Incredible film with intensity, relentless gore, and horror. This people are not nice. They all deserve it and Bull dishes it out. One of the best revenge movies I have seen”
A second 10/10 IMDb review said: “I watch crazy horror movies daily, so for this to get my heart pounding... 10/10.”
Bull is available to watch now on Netflix.
Topics: Netflix, Horror, TV and Film, Film
Michael Slavin