After his father is killed in an altercation with drunken thugs, Salah's world is plunged into darkness. Forced into running the family kebab shop alone, Salah struggles to manage the increasingly rowdy night life and when a fight with an angry customer goes fatally wrong, he finds himself with a dead body on his hands. With no faith in the authorities Salah disposes of the body in the one place he knows best… the kebabs.
Belgium16
Netherlands16
JapanR18+
UK18
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A small fast food shop owner is at his end with all the late night drunkards pushing his buttons and decides to start chopping them up...
I found myself quietly cheering him on just waiting for idiots to walk into his shop and thinking oh he's going to chop you up good (little bit of a dexter vibe) ... Theres more to it than just mindless gore though, although that aspect is excellent, they don't hold back on the blood-n-guts and I really shouldn't have eaten my breakfast while watching this... There's an underlying social commentary of racism, immigration and the struggling everyday man that elevates this a bit. Its quite grim in tone with subtle shades of noir, it also has some good moments of dark comedy, sadness and an overall gritty and pretty bleak vibe. I see this is a debut and the director has something in the works with Eva green and I cant wait!
Anybody who's been out on a Friday night in any UK town or city centre will recognise the characters in K-Shop. Binge drinking and "lad" culture have permeated British culture like a maggot through an apple. It's not unusual to witness violence, vandalism, rascism, homophobia, defacation (I watched a drunken man have a shit on the grass next to a train station), sex (yes, I've seen two people having sex on the pavement) or twats in fancy dress beating the crap out of each other. All with the excuse of "we were drunk!" or, even worse, "it's just banter". And of course, all drunken nights end up in the same place: the local kebab shop, where some poor hardworking immigrant…
You don't have to be British to get this film, but it probably helps. I dread to think what impression anyone who'd never been to the UK would take away (sorry) from Dan Pringle's searing satire of the country's drink and drug-fuelled Friday night meat market culture. It's set in Bournemouth, but really it could be any town, with the weekend night life supplying the common sight of people stumbling around the streets near clubs, vomiting, pissing, rutting against walls, shouting and giving vent to their worst racist, bigoted tendencies in ugly displays of raw stupidity. Sadly, most of this is stock footage in the film and didn't require any actors' fees to reinvent reality. It makes me glad I…
Possibly the most tonally weird film I've ever seen, K-Shop is mainly an incredibly depressing British misery-porn thriller, interspersed with horribly grim serial killer splatter. The only thing connecting the two styles is that they're both horrifically realistic. It's no wonder that its distributor resorted to marketing it as some sort of horror comedy, because whatever this is, it's a fucking hard sell. It's about a young kebab shop owner who has to deal with the absolute dregs of Bournemouth's racist nightlife, and - understandably - murders the worst of them, using their ground-up bodies to top up his already dubious meat. Taking place over several years, the fact that the film inexplicably begins in 2005 is unsettling enough in…
вот это настоящее кино.
я если честно обожаю фильм, у которых маленький бюджет и это даже не арт хаус, это просто фильм о мести. вся прелесть этого фильма это интерес, тебе интересно чего же хочет конкретно главный герой, чего добивается. и вот эта картинка не высокого качества и с не известными актёрами, которые играют прекрасно для этого фильма особенно гг. в общем и целом это отличный фильм на вечер
As an American I'm likely the wrong person to comment on the social commentary in this movie - but this is exactly the kind of movie that I find truly distasteful and problematic. It displays a nihilistic view of humanity by demonizing alcoholism and creating a hero out of a murderous psychopath. Nothing that occurs in this movie feels justified at all. Maybe it was a poor choice to watch this the day after we elected a hate-mongering monster as our President, but I fail to see how this could be read as anything other than a spew of pure bile and hatred. The cast is good, the gore is done really well, and the movie looks good despite having…
maybe the k-shop was the kebabs we made along the way
average night at the kebab shop
Disturbing, i'll never eat a kebab again. Lots of british typical drunken behaviour leading to well ...... Enough said.
Termina bastante doloroso y digo esto porque es algo importante a notar porque las cosas nunca terminan son las personas, Pero lo demás continúa Salah pasa hacer un estiércol tirado en un rincón sin nadie que lo auxile y me preguntó ¿dónde quedaron el par de personas que estaban con el? Y se que no es algo profundo ese par de relaciones porque no llegan a nada y le quita minutos a Salah Pero esto termino conmigo sintiendo algo triste por el protagonista a pesar de sus acciones, solo termina con un monto de recuerdos y pensamientos de personas de la calle con las que tuvo que ver, demoré mucho para ver esta película mucho tiempo no es la puta…
I love the bit when Dan Pringle came into the kebab and said 'it's k-shop time' and pringled himself
great now i want to k-myself
