Garnering comparison to classic crime films like The Long Good Friday, Gerard Johnson’s sophomore feature, Hyena looks a stylish, brutal affair. Find its new poster, below.
Though living within the realm of harsh, neon crime, Hyena boasts a horror pedigree. The cast features Kill List vets Neil Maskell and MyAnna Buring, while writer/director Johnson and star Peter Ferdinando first teamed in 2009 on the filmmaker’s striking serial killer debut, Tony. To be honest, this item is more of a way to say, “Doesn’t Hyena look very cool; you should also watch Tony, if you’ve not.”
In Hyena, Ferdinando stars as dirty, drugged up cop Logan. “When Logan is threatened with exposure of his dirty dealings, he is forced to betray his alliance with an established Turkish crime family and side with a pair of ruthless Albanian thugs. Things get even stickier when Logan is targeted by an internal affairs investigator with a grudge, and an old friend of his is assigned to head up a task force charged with busting his new cohorts. As the situation escalates, Logan is forced to rapidly shift his loyalties and sell out his allies as he desperately tries to both stay alive and appear to be committed to his duty of upholding the law.”
Hyena is out in the UK on March 6th. I’m jealous. [Empire]
