{"id":3879,"date":"2014-12-05T22:01:41","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T22:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2015-07-27T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T12:37:19","slug":"community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/reviews\/capsule_reviews\/community\/","title":{"rendered":"Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following Citadel<\/strong>, here’s some more hoodie-horror with\u00a0Community<\/strong>, which manages the not inconsiderable task of being set in quite possibly the most run down, scuzziest and essentially unpleasant looking estate in England. What makes this cr*p-hole all the worse is that it’s slap bang in the middle of nowhere; making it seem even more like a cruel joke played by 1960s town planners. (Note: I believe the location in question is somewhere in Basildon, a place I’m sure is absolutely lovely, or at least more lovely\u00a0than Harlow).<\/p>\n

Anyway, the film follows a pair of film students (perky, irritating Jemma Dallender) and laconic Elliot Jordan (a regular in Eastenders<\/strong> a few years back)) who go to investigate this particular council estate after hearing a variety of strange rumors concerning\u00a0it. They discover it to be a very strange place indeed: the kids don’t go to school, learning to kill animals instead; the adults are all zonked out on a super strong kind of weed; and the whole place is presided over by a transvestite drug dealer and general lunatic (TV regular Paul McNeilly). And – heh, heh, heh – they don’t take kindly to snooping strangers…<\/p>\n

Given its extremely\u00a0low budget this is actually a decent effort. It’s all rather silly, of course, and it lacks the depth and intelligence of\u00a0Community<\/strong>, but\u00a0its portrayal of a dystopian society – a kind of lower class equivalent of something that JG Ballard would dream up – is pretty effective. It has a bit of Ben Wheatley about it – especially the way it mixes up Mike Leigh and Tobe Hooper – and it manages to be gripping throughout (once the initial Blair Witch Project<\/strong> stylings have been discarded). Not brilliant, but certainly acceptable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following Citadel, here’s some more hoodie-horror with Community, which manages the not inconsiderable task of being set in quite possibly the most run down, scuzziest and essentially unpleasant looking estate in England<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1214,1175],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}