Tony (2009 film)
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Tony is a 2009 English drama
film written and directed by Gerard Johnson and starring Peter Ferdinando. The film also had the alternative title of Tony: London Serial Killer.
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said "Undeniably bleak, but blood-blackly funny and disturbing rather than depressing, this puts Johnson in the Shane Meadows league, and with Ferdinando the director may also have his own ready-made Paddy Considine."
The Daily Mirror
said "Funny, terrifying and with a central character to be both despised and pitied, here's a movie that once seen is very, very hard to forget - not necessarily a good thing."
Empire Magazine Kim Newman of Empire said "Not cheery, but gripping, against-the-odds funny and uncomfortably unique. Johnson and Ferdinando are certainly now names to watch."
The Evening Standard Derek Malcolm of the Evening Standard said "it is
most certainly the product of a real and very promising film-maker, inhabiting a convincingly original world of its own."
Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...
film written and directed by Gerard Johnson and starring Peter Ferdinando. The film also had the alternative title of Tony: London Serial Killer.
Plot
A shut-in who lives in a London slum, who collects 1980s violent action movies, is revealed to be a secret serial killerSerial killer
A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...
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Critical response
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said "Undeniably bleak, but blood-blackly funny and disturbing rather than depressing, this puts Johnson in the Shane Meadows league, and with Ferdinando the director may also have his own ready-made Paddy Considine."
The Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror
The Daily Mirror is a British national daily tabloid newspaper which was founded in 1903. Twice in its history, from 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was changed to read simply The Mirror, which is how the paper is often referred to in popular parlance. It had an...
said "Funny, terrifying and with a central character to be both despised and pitied, here's a movie that once seen is very, very hard to forget - not necessarily a good thing."
Empire Magazine Kim Newman of Empire said "Not cheery, but gripping, against-the-odds funny and uncomfortably unique. Johnson and Ferdinando are certainly now names to watch."
The Evening Standard Derek Malcolm of the Evening Standard said "it is
most certainly the product of a real and very promising film-maker, inhabiting a convincingly original world of its own."