If you loved Scum, try Straw Dogs
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Theyboth carry the dread, gut punch, raw mood tags, and they sit in Crime / Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to Scum, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
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What Straw Dogs is
Cornwall countryside, autumn, a broken fence. A American academic and his English wife face local hostility, old flames, and escalating threats. Peckinpah frames masculinity as a brittle construct.

