'HOOLIGANS' is the story of 3 generations of football hooligans within one family who will ultimately stand together to avenge the death of a member of the Suicide Squad instigated by their bitter rivals, the Killing Machine. Taking inspiration from the likes of ‘The Football Factory’ and ‘Green Street’, ‘HOOLIGANS' will make those films look like an outing to the ballet, with it’s graphic scenes of bone crunching violence and savagery never before seen in a film about football hooligans.
Tagline: ‘Coming to a street near YOU’
Synopsis:
‘15 year old Billy Harrison is afraid to stand up to school bully, Tommo, and asks his father, who is a member of the infamous Suicide Squad if he can join, in order to learn how to fight. Dave Harrison is overjoyed and tells Billy how eager he is for his grandfather’s release from prison so they can stand together again to get revenge on the Killing Machine who framed him for murder 14 years previously.
Frank Harrison used to be the leader of the SS which Dave hopes his father will run again as at the helm is the ineffectual John, who instead of breaking KM skulls is content to buy knocked off booze and cigarettes from their leader Micky Barnes, making him a nice little earner.
But John will only accept Billy into the squad if he proves himself. After Billy glasses a member of the KM in a pub he is accepted into the SS and quickly becomes one of the lads, but his right of passage re-ignites old wounds and their arch enemies the KM want revenge.
Frank is a changed man when he gets out of prison, refuses to re-join the SS and doesn’t want revenge on the KM. Something which Dave finds unacceptable.
Instead of bringing him closer to his father the violence begins to push a wedge between them and as Billy is dragged deeper into the violent world of the SS he witnesses the disintegration of his parent’s marriage, his father and grandfather’s relationship and the reputation of the SS.
Something’s got to give and events coalesce into a final battle between the SS and the KM on the last day of the football season where old scores will be settled and lives will be changed forever!’
Writer / Director: Garry Moore
