10 Sci-Fi Horror Movies That Broke All The Rules
9. Attack The Block
Released in 2011, British cult filmmaker Joe Cornish’s still-underrated sci fi horror Attack the Block was an unexpected hit which rewrote the rules of British genre cinema.
The flick came at the end of a long string of films from the country which envisioned unsupervised youths as monstrous amoral murderers, a trend evidenced by everything from 2005's pretentious indie drama The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael to 2008's torture porn horror Eden Lake to 2010's tense thriller F.
Starring future Star Wars hero John Boyega as its stoic protagonist, Attack the Block recast these hoodie villains of these horrors as misunderstood heroes, depicting the challenges of their low income lives before leading the audience to root for them against a toothy alien menace.
Charming, scary, and funny, this flick ensured the less privileged denizens of Britain got their turn to play heroes onscreen. Now where's that movement to cast the rich kids as villains, some ten years on?