New Town Killers

Two private bankers, Alistair and Jamie, who have the world at their feet get their kicks from playing a 12 hour game of hunt, hide and seek with people from the margins of society. Their next target is Sean Macdonald a parentless teenager who lives with his sister on a housing estate on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She’s in debt, he’s going nowhere fast. Sean agrees to play for cash. He soon realises he’s walked into twelve hours of hell where survival is the name of the game., In this breathless urban thriller starring Dougray Scott, two wealthy private bankers lure a parent-less Edinburgh teen into a sinister game of hide and seek. Their parents gone and their prospects bleak, Sean (James Anthony Pearson) and his sister Alice (Liz White) struggle just to get by. When two men agree to pay Sean for participating in their game, the hunt begins. His time running out and his pursuers closing in, Sean must survive the night to collect his cash., Thriller about two rich and morally overdrawn investment bankers who get their kicks out of paying the impoverished to act as prey in their warped hunting game set in the streets of Edinburgh. When a young council estate kid agrees to play – whereby if he survives the night he wins a hefty cash prize – a sick game of hide and seek ensues as the streets become a twisted playground for the sadistic killers and a tough, parentless teen from a rough Edinburgh estate., Agreeing to take part in a sick game of hide and seek with bonkers investment banker Alistair Raskolnikov, council estate kid Sean MacDonald must survive the night to claim a hefty cash prize., With a premise that suggests an early 21st century variation on David Fincher’s paranoia classic The Game (1997), New Town Killers stars Dougray Scott as Alistair, a slimy, ice water-veined financier who gets his kicks and thrills by targeting human prey. His modus operandi involves bringing in an innocent young candidate for a new job, Jamie Stewart (Alastair Mackenzie), and demanding as a prerequisite that the two play a mysterious game together. They must find a down-and-outer and challenge him to escape from their clutches over the course of one long and fateful night. The “prey” on this occasion is Sean McDonald (James Anthony Pearson), an inner-city teen with a serious problem on his hands: his pregnant sister risks being killed by the thugs to whom she owes gambling money. Alistair informs the young man that if he manages to evade them in their chase, he will receive enough money to clear off the towering gambling debts of his pregnant sister; if he loses, he will be killed. Out of concern for his sister, Sean agrees to the contest, though victory seems impossible for two major reasons: first, the crafty Alistair has closed all major exit routes from the city without informing Sean of this, and second, Alistair secretly plants a tracking device on Sean that the young man isn’t aware of., Agreeing to take part in a sick game of hide and seek with bonkers investment banker Alistair Raskolnikov, council estate kid Sean MacDonald must survive the night to claim a hefty cash prize. Thriller.