| Knuckledust | |
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| Directed by | James Kermack |
| Written by | James Kermack |
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| Cinematography | Pat Aldinger |
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| Music by | Walter Mair |
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| Distributed by | Samuel Goldwyn Films |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Knuckledust is a 2020 Britishaction-thriller film written and directed by James Kermack. Filmed in theUnited Kingdom, the film starsMoe Dunford,Kate Dickie,Camille Rowe,Phil Davis,Alex Ferns,Olivier Richters,Jaime Winstone,Gethin Anthony, andSébastien Foucan. It was released in the United States and Canada onVOD bySamuel Goldwyn Films on December 8, 2020, and in the United Kingdom on December 11, where it was met with mixed reviews from critics.
InKnuckledust, police discover an elite fight club where they find seven underground levels, filled with the dead bodies of fighters from around the world. Only one man is found left alive. The task force has to work out if he is a mass murderer or the lone survivor.[3]
Principal photography forKnuckledust began on October 28, 2019.[4] After filming in multiple countries in Europe, filming concluded on December 3, 2019, in theUnited Kingdom.[5][6] On November 2, 2020,Samuel Goldwyn Films announced that they would distribute the film.[3] In an interview, actressKate Dickie revealed that she joined the film after reading its script.[2]
Onreview aggregatorRotten Tomatoes,Knuckledust holds an approval rating of 57% based on seven reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10.[7] FromThe Guardian, Leslie Felperin gave the film a star rating of two stars out of five, writing that the film's "cinematography seems designed to distract from the shabbiness of the sets, while the muffled dialogue and too-loud backing tracks make it nigh on impossible to work out what the hell is going on".[8]