British sci-fi at its finest. We see just what impact an alien invasion has on one of the UK’s darkest subcultures…
Walking home on Bonfire Night through “The Ends” in Brixton, new-to-the-area nurse Samantha Adams (Jodie Whittaker) is mugged by a small gang of teenage hoodlums: Pest, Dennis, Jerome, Biggz, and leader Moses (John Boyega).
The mugging is interrupted when a meteorite falls from the sky into a nearby car, giving Samantha the chance to escape. As Moses searches the wreck of the car for valuables, his face is scratched by a pale, hairless, eyeless creature that we soon learn has emerged from its cocoon which caused all the damage!
The creature runs away, but the gang chase and kill it. Hoping to gain fame and fortune, they take the corpse to their acquaintance, cannabis dealer Ron (Nick Frost), to get advice on what to do. He lives at the top of their tower block, Wyndham Tower…
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