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Hoodies are goodies in Joe Cornish’s Attack The Bloc

Every modern horror movie has to address the ubiquity of mobile phones: if you can simply call for help, where’s the tension?

The boilerplate solution is to isolate your cast in a location with patchy network coverage. But in Attack The Block – a breakneck urban thriller that pits South London teens against bloodthirsty aliens – the problem is fiscal rather than geographical.