History Film / TowerBlock

* FiveManBand
** TheHero: Becky
** TheLancer: Jeff [[spoiler:at first; then Paul]]
** TheBigGuy: Neville
** TheSmartGuy: Daniel
** TokenEvilTeamMate: Kurtis

* InfantImmortality: Averted repeatedly. The film's prologue shows a 15 year old being kicked to death outside Becky's flat. [[spoiler:Jenny's kids are shot during the initial sniper attack; Daniel is shot after making it out of the block.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Two drug dealers beat a 15 year old to death, and everyone's too afraid to rat out the attackers. The cop, frustrated, murders most of the residents, including ''two children under the age of ten who had nothing to do with it''. And he still insists, when confronted, that it was justified.]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Kurtis is a protection racketeer who intimidates the other residents for money. After the initial sniper attack, after a beating from Neville, he starts to become more meek and helpful. [[spoiler:He's one of the only survivors]]

** [[spoiler: The sniper turns out to be a detective who snapped after a 13 year old boy was beaten to death and no one was brave enough to tell what they saw or heard.]]

* [[spoiler:LawmanGoneBad: The sniper is a policeman, frustrated at being unable to prosecute Gary and Mark for Jimmy's murder.]]

Serenity House is due for demolition and the all the tenants have been moved out except the top floor. After 15 year old Jimmy is kicked to death by local drug dealers, the resident witnesses refuse to co-operate with the police for fear of retaliation. Some months later, somebody is out for {{revenge}} for their silence. as the witnesses are murdered one by one.

Serenity House is due for demolition and the all the tenants have been moved out except the top floor. After 15 year old Jimmy is kicked to death by local drug dealers, the resident witnesses refuse to co-operate with the police for fear of retaliation. Some months later, somebody is out for revenge for their silence.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Gary and Mark, the drug dealers who killed Jimmy, are exposed to the sniper by Kurtis.]]
* [[spoiler:BoobyTrap: Several impede the escapees]]

A 2012 low-budget suspense thriller set in a near-empty tower block on a London UsefulNotes/CouncilEstate. Serenity House is due for demolition and the all the tenants have been moved out except the top floor. After 15 year old Jimmy is kicked to death by local drug dealers, the resident witnesses refuse to co-operate with the police for fear of retaliation. Some months later, somebody is out for revenge for their silence.

* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Most of the residents are killed in the film]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Gary and Mark, the drug dealers who killed Jimmy, are exposed to the sniper by Kurtis]]

* ColdSniper: On an adjacent, empty tower block

* [[spoiler:DirtyCop: The sniper is a policeman, frustrated at being unable to prosecute Gary and Mark for Jimmy's murder]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Jenny walks into the sniper's line of fire, some time after her children are murdered in the initial attack]]

* HeelFaceTurn: Kurtis is a protection racketeer who intimidates the other residents for money. After the initial sniper attack, after a beating from Neville, he starts to become more meek and helpful. [[spoiler:he's one of the only survivors]]
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Kurtis warns Becky against killing in cold blood, even in [[PayEvilUntoEvil revenge]], as the act will scar her forever.

* LaserSight: Seen on Violet just before Neville saves her; [[spoiler:later on, Carol thinks she's escaped [[OhCrap before she sees the little red dot]] ]]
* NailEm: Becky uses the builders' nail gun as a ranged weapon
* RetiredBadass: Neville is ex-military

* ChekovsGun: The nail gun left behind by the builders.

* CheckovsGun: The nail gun left behind by the builders.

* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Kurtis warns Becky against killing in cold blood, even in [[PayEvilUntoEvil revenge]], as the act will scar her forever

** Not quite. He claims it's a PSG-1, whereas it looks like it's actually a variant of the M14 EBR.

** Not quite. He claims it's a PSG-1, whereas it looks like it's actually a variant of the M14EBR.

A 2012 low-budget suspense thriller set in a near-empty tower block on a London CouncilEstate. Serenity House is due for demolition and the all the tenants have been moved out except the top floor. After 15 year old Jimmy is kicked to death by local drug dealers, the resident witnesses refuse to co-operate with the police for fear of retaliation. Some months later, somebody is out for revenge for their silence.

* HeelFaceTurn: Kurtis is a protection