In 2019, 2,725 children needed help to secure temporary accommodation in Manchester. The city has the biggest youth homelessness problem outside London, and all too often, young people get the immediate assistance they need only to end up back on the streets again. Troubled family lives, drug and alcohol use and experiences of violence make it difficult for many of them to form or maintain positive connections, but those who dedicate their lives to trying to help them understand that they ae just kids, no matter how difficult their behaviour may be. If they can be reached, they can still be shown that they are valued, and persuaded to value themselves.
When the police find Nathan (Lennon Leckey) slumped in a back alley biting the neck of a dead dog they don’t hide their disgust, yet it’s clear that they’ve seen worse. A few hours later, the boy is handed over.
When the police find Nathan (Lennon Leckey) slumped in a back alley biting the neck of a dead dog they don’t hide their disgust, yet it’s clear that they’ve seen worse. A few hours later, the boy is handed over.
- 8/29/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Lennon Leckey in Boy #5 Photo: courtesy of Frightfest
One of the great things about Frightfest is its ability to keep on finding high quality independent films which might otherwise go under the radar. Boy #5 is a vampire film, which might sound like more of the same, but it has a very distinctive character and strong underlying themes. It’s impressively produced and features one of the best performances of the festival, from newcomer Laura Montgomery Bennett, who plays a social worker taking on the case of a sullen teenage boy (played by Lennon Leckey) found on the streets. Shortly before the festival I met up with Laura and director Eric Steele to chat about the film. Eric began by explaining the unusual circumstances in which it entered development.
“We’d worked on a couple of short films, myself and my co-producer Barry Morton, and I’d directed a short film...
One of the great things about Frightfest is its ability to keep on finding high quality independent films which might otherwise go under the radar. Boy #5 is a vampire film, which might sound like more of the same, but it has a very distinctive character and strong underlying themes. It’s impressively produced and features one of the best performances of the festival, from newcomer Laura Montgomery Bennett, who plays a social worker taking on the case of a sullen teenage boy (played by Lennon Leckey) found on the streets. Shortly before the festival I met up with Laura and director Eric Steele to chat about the film. Eric began by explaining the unusual circumstances in which it entered development.
“We’d worked on a couple of short films, myself and my co-producer Barry Morton, and I’d directed a short film...
- 8/28/2021
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Stars: Laura Montgomery Bennett, Lennon Leckey, Natasha Naomi Rea, Adrian Palmer | Written and Directed by Eric Ian Steele
Tackling the vampire genre is a brave move in horror. Creating some mass appeal with something akin to Twilight probably means you’ll be making less of a horror movie. While making a horror-centric vampire film is hard because there’s a lot of them and it’s pretty hard to stand out from the pack. You’ve got to be pretty good to stand alongside Fright Night, Lost Boys, Let The Right One In, Martin or the many tales of Dracula. Boy #5 tries most obvious features are that it tells and original story and that it is very British.
Being very British might be an odd thing to point out but it was literally the first thing I thought after only a couple of minutes of viewing it. In the same...
Tackling the vampire genre is a brave move in horror. Creating some mass appeal with something akin to Twilight probably means you’ll be making less of a horror movie. While making a horror-centric vampire film is hard because there’s a lot of them and it’s pretty hard to stand out from the pack. You’ve got to be pretty good to stand alongside Fright Night, Lost Boys, Let The Right One In, Martin or the many tales of Dracula. Boy #5 tries most obvious features are that it tells and original story and that it is very British.
Being very British might be an odd thing to point out but it was literally the first thing I thought after only a couple of minutes of viewing it. In the same...
- 8/28/2021
- by Alain Elliott
- Nerdly
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