A dead girl walks into your flat. What do you do? Jock keeps his cool. Barely.
Old memories are awakened in a terrifying and dangerous way when Jock McGinn counters a strange little girl in the flats where he lives. A crucial stepping-stone in the career of distinguished actor and director David Hayman. It was also a seminal work of writer Bryan Elsley who would go on to create the award-winning Skins series.
Acting
Tom Watson's haunted stillness sells every impossible moment.
Direction
Hayman finds poetry in concrete brutalism and flickering hallways.
Writing
Elsley's debut simmers with the authenticity that later defined Skins.
Director
David Hayman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot in Govan's actual condemned tenements, the film documents a Glasgow being demolished—making its ghosts literal and architectural.
David Hayman cast his own daughter in the ghost role, allegedly without telling her the full plot—her genuine confusion reads as ethereal otherworldliness.
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