The Riot Club is a 2014 British drama thriller film directed by Lone Scherfig and written by Laura Wade, based on Wade's 2010 play Posh.
At Oxford University the hottest invitation is to join The Riot Club, a privileged and exclusive club for the best and brightest. First years – and polar opposites – Miles and Alistair are singled out as potential recruits. Seduced and flattered by the exclusivity of the club and the power it promises, they accept an invitation to an evening of debauchery and excess which eventually explodes into carnage.
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Scherfig approaches the milieu with shrewd anthropological wit, amplifying
Wade's research with her own keen outsider insights – this on top of an
expert grasp of tension and tone as the club's initial allure turns to anxiety
and disgust. Peter Debruge – Variety