The Legend of Barney Thomson

• Comedy
• Drama

Awkward barber Barney Thomson’s monotonous existence in Glasgow is violently disrupted when a series of accidental killings thrust him into the orbit of a genuinely terrifying serial murderer, forcing a hapless man to navigate a darkly comedic underworld he’s utterly unprepared for. The film revels in its grotesque absurdity, less a traditional thriller and more a pitch-black satire of the genre itself, where incompetence and bad luck fuel a cascade of escalating chaos. It’s a deliberately unsettling and oddly endearing portrayal of a man stumbling through horrific circumstances, finding a strange sort of agency amidst the mayhem and revealing the banality lurking beneath true crime fascination.