Low on budget but high on impact, Shank is a gritty new British movie that tackles a whole lot of issues, from sexuality, coming out, and race to social status, and gang violence. Described by Edge San Francisco as “the equivalent of ‘Beautiful Thing’ on coke,” the movie is written by Darren Flaxstone & Christian Martin, and directed by Simon Pearce.
I came upon the movie while I was looking for new titles to add to our GLBT Movies store, and the more I found out about it the more I wanted to see this movie. Coming out on DVD in an Unrated Director Cut on December 8, the movie is inspired by real events of young gay guys targeted at cruising areas and filmed on mobile phones while being humiliated and assaulted.
The producers of Shank have kindly shared with Homotography some of the movie production images, which we present to you in this post. The movie stars Wayne Virgo, Marc Laurent and Alice Payne. You can watch Shank’s official trailer below.
