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Shallow Grave

...the best British thriller for years, a chilling and claustrophobic heart-stopper centring on a moral dilemma destined to fuel many a dinner party conversation.

The movie takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, where three roommates are interviewing for a fourth. They are particularly repulsive types of supercilious yuppie twits: a doctor, an accountant and a journalist.

In trendy British director Danny Boyle's effective psychological thriller, three yuppie Glasgow roommates show their true colors after they come into possession of a suitcase stuffed with cash.

...was Boyle’s big-screen directorial debut, and shows off the slick, confident style that would come to define his career. While that style can come off as thin, it works wonders here...