W Delta Z (2007)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Tom Shankland

Writer:

Clive Bradley (screenplay)

Release Date:

2007 (Ireland)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Would you kill the one you love to save yourself from death?

Plot:

A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes.

Plot Keywords:

Police | Slasher | Gay Interest | Policewoman | Torture

US TV Schedule:

Mon. July 27

3:55 AM

HBO

Cast

Barbara Adair	...	Alice Jackson
Stellan Skarsgård	...	Eddie Argo
Peter Ballance	...	Trucker (as Peter Balance)
Selma Blair	...	Jean Lerner
Melissa George	...	Helen Westcott
Tom Hardy	...	Pierre Jackson
Sally Hawkins	...	Elly Carpenter
Lauren Hood	...	Sharon Williams
Caroline Lee-Johnson	...	Gillian (as Caroline Lee Johnson)
'Sean' Brian Jordaan	...	Jamal Osman / Khaled Osman (as Brian 'Saen' Jordan)
Paul Kaye	...	Gelb
Sheila Kerr	...	Alison Lerner
Michael Liebman	...	Wesley Smith
Joshua O'Gorman	...	Dominic Carpenter
Alibe Parsons	...	Miss Allaway

Also Known As:

Waz (UK) (informal title) (USA) (working title)
Devil's Algebra (UK) (working title)
The Killing Gene (USA) (DVD title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong brutal violence including a rape, gruesome images and pervasive language.

Runtime:

104 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:R | New Zealand:R18 | Ireland:18 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | UK:18 | Finland:K-18 | Netherlands:16 | Singapore:M18 | USA:Unrated (DVD rating) | Norway:15 (TV rating)

Filming Locations:

Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

Company:

Vertigo Films

Goofs:

Continuity: The first time we see the police whiteboard it has "W Delta Z" and "W Delta Z = Cov" written on it (even though no corpse has borne the "v" at that point). But in the next shot the board says only "W Delta Z = Co".

Quotes:

Gelb: Just imagine a hero without a genetic motive. Not a relative, not a potential mate. Now, that would be interesting, wouldn't it?

Movie Connections:

References Day of the Woman (1978)

Very dark and ugly thriller.

When the corpses of a gangster and his pregnant crack whore girlfriend surface-he brutally mutilated,she electrocuted-it remains a mystery why 'WAZ' was carved into the girl's belly after her death and when a second pair of bodies is found,one of them marked with the same cryptic letters,the hunt for a serial killer begins.The cynic cop played by Stellan Skarsgard tries to find the tormented serial killer..."W Delta Z" aka "WAZ" is so bleak,hopeless and utterly dark that it's almost suffocating.Its theme of moral emptiness and the scenes of graphic torture will no doubt upset some unprepared viewers.The film is shot almost entirely at night by Morten Søborg of "Pusher" fame.The script by Clive Bradley is intelligent with its central theme of non-existence of altruism and is completely devoid of any light.I simply can't wait for Tom Shankland's bleak survival horror "The Day"(2008).Finally I live for such gritty and ugly cinema like "WAZ".