Ken Loach meets The Silence of the Lambs?

No, it doesn't sound like it would work, does it? Gritty, realistic kitchen-sink drama is well suited to the story of a recovering drug addict single mum struggling to bring up six kids on state benefits in a grim Northern English housing estate. When you apply the same form to what is, at base, traditional slash-and-gore serial killer whimsy the result, as we see here, is something of an own-goal.

"Eat a sandwich. Drink a glass of milk. Do some fvcking thing."