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What Would You Do to Put Food on the Table.

Here at RRR we have been lucky enough to be contacted by the aspiring actor Ian Plunkett who starred in the short Flesh and Blood, for the City of Glasgow College. Directed by Emma Gilchrist and on camera Connor Grant.

Flesh and Blood is a horror that will leave you with a lingering shiver in the base of your spine, as we see Peter (Luke Aquilina) trying to keep his father  Garrett (Ian Plunkett) in beer and cigarettes. We see Garrett lying amongst the detritus of the day’s events, as Peter is woken up by the alarm on his phone.

It’s his new work place, ‘Balism’ and it is time for his first job, pick up a bag at a dodgy pick-up point, carry it through the dark streets of Glasgow and drop it off at an even dodgier flat. For his troubles, he is given a wodge of fifty-pound notes. Kerching, and this sound is repeated a lot as Peter has lots of work, while his dad lies about the house missing his ex-wife, who walked out on the pair. He is very bitter about the whole situation.

All this is filmed by Connor Grant, who keeps the camera low to give a skewed angle on our characters which gives it a much darker atmosphere.

Peter carries on his deliveries as he rakes in the cash, until he gets spooked and does a runner. He heads home where his dad is awake, and full of questions about why he is out late at night and sleeps all day, avoiding him. Is Garrett trying to open new lines of dialogue? What’s bizarre is, he’s decided to cook.

Flesh and Blood is a chilling tale of how you never know what is going on behind those closed doors and what your part in it is. A great job by the two leads, and you will believe the look on Peter’s face when he realises what he might have just done. A dark, brooding tale.

Check out this 2019 short on YouTube