Cold & Dark (2005) – Andrew Goth.

A vicious, recently demonized cop (Kevin Howarth) rampages bloodily amok in Andrew Goth's not entirely harmonious admixture of splattery horror and gritty UK crime thriller. Notable points of interest include Clinty Squinty Good Guy cop Luke Goss's distractingly protuberant nipples, Kevin Howarth's splendidly spiffy leather jacket, plus a delightfully impish Matt Lucas, who appears to have giddily Twilight Zoned in from Garth Merenghi's Dark Place! Performances are generally credible, with amusing lapses into chucklesome goofiness. Pace is fairly lively, the stolid text is okay-ish, sporadically enlivened by a number of unintentional howlers. This mostly entertaining conflation of Baphomet and Bergerac is certainly not without interest to the more avid Brit-horror fans looking for a skewed alternative to yet another formulaic slice & dicer. For all its awkwardness, I still greatly enjoyed Cold & Dark's laudable attempts at grisly idiosyncrasy.