FilmPsychological

London Road2015

Name: London Road
Genre: Psychological
Released: 2015-06-12
Rating: 5.8

Directed by Rufus Norris

5.8

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IMDb 5.3Rotten Tomatoes 76%Metacritic 71TMDB 5.5

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Year

2015

Runtime

91 min

Box Office

🏆 1 win & 2 nominations total

The premise

London Road is a musical drama that documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. The residents of London Road had struggled for years with frequent soliciting and kerb-crawling on their street. When a local resident was charged and then convicted of the murders, the community grappled with what it meant to be at the epicentre of this tragedy.

Horror Vault's take

When five women are found murdered in Ipswich in 2006, the residents of London Road find themselves living at the heart of a national media storm. Drawn from real testimonies and staged as a sung-through musical, the film captures how an ordinary street — and its people — must reckon with their proximity to unimaginable horror. The result is a deeply unsettling portrait of collective shock, quiet prejudice, and the strange human need to find normalcy in the wake of tragedy.

Content: Themes Of Sex Work, Real-Life Serial Killer Subject Matter, Depictions Of Community Distress