Muscle is a bleak Noir mindf**k twisted story from writer / director Gerard Johnson, his follow-up to the dark violent Hyena (2014), very close to the estethics of NWR (Nicholas Winding Refn)'s Pusher trilogy. A very risquee film, also because it's shot in gritty black and white, it's violent and with graphic sexual scenes and filled with toxic homoeroticity.
Set and filmed in Newcastle, it's the story of an alpha male and a wanna-be alpha, told through the means of bodybuilding in the local gym (Atlantis). And a gradual and slow descent into hell.
With a great soundtrack by Gerard's brother, Matt Johnson from the cult group The The, including the Manfred Mann's 1969 song, Mister You're A Better Man Than I, and on the end credits a great The The song, I Want 2 B U.
The performances are stellar, Craig Fairbrass, B muscle actor as Terry and Cavan Clerkin as Simon. Johnson's attired actor, Peter Ferdinando (Tony, Hyena) and the upcoming Odyssey, has a supporting small part.
Not for the faint at heart ;)
Empire review here
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