Outcast (2010)
Certainly a different take on the lycan myth. Outcast sees a bearded grizzled James Nesbitt as a ritualistic killer hunting a mother and her son in an Edinburgh council estate.
Despite being low of budget the film has a grim as f*ck tone to it portraying Scotland as a grey depressed urban jungle, populated by misfits and feral youths which added to the films sombre mood.
At the heart of the film is a tender love story between the mother's son Fergal and resident Petronella but mainly this is a delve into Irish and Scottish folklore as well as a delve into pigeon entrails as the vicious Nesbitt hunts a werewolf in what is a gritty, gory, urban, supernatural horror.
Outcast would make a great Ken Loach inspired Grittish double bill with 1998's Urban Ghost Story.
Look out for Karen Gillan in a role before she became famous.
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