London is a city which brings so much promise as you arrive – and so much variety of life as you evolve with it. For dancer Joy, the ‘Big Smoke’ is about to provide something else iin David Stuart Snell‘s psychological horror noir I BRING JOY.

Joy (Elena Rivers) is used to the world of the casting couch, cattle call and making sure she is on time whilst in time at the heart of the dance studio where she is determined to make it as the ‘Queen Of The West End’, but it is clear that one more audition is draining her resolve. Matters aren’t helped by the studio ‘Queen Bee’ Meghan (Verity Hayes) , always near-perfect and getting a call back in a role above the one Joy was aspiring to get.

One night, whilst walking alone through the North London streets, Joy is given some unwanted attention from a knife-wielding love wannabe, which leads to the accidental stabbing of the individual. Joy quickly begins to realize that she might have a rhythmic talent for co-ordinated stabbing against those who suppress her the most. Add in some local drug dealers and a shoe designer who are becoming part of her expanded inner circle….and some dark and dastardly deeds are afoot…..

The title seems rather ironic, given this dark and sinister take of a classic genre, encompassing the stylistic tropes of AMERICAN PSYCHO and BLACK SWAN, alongside the backdrop of the classic urban canvas that has defined many indie London flicks over the decades. Virtue-signallers will detect a subtle aside to the #MeToo and #TimesUp mindset regarding the mystique of a figure known as only ‘The Legend’ discussed in the post-rehearsal bars and dance studio,  but at its’ heart I BRING JOY is a traditional thought provoking tale of ambiguity that polarises your thoughts as the final credits roll.

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