A HARD-hitting horror film that savages British drinking culture was premiered just yards from the Bournemouth road where most of it was shot.

K-Shop, made by Bournemouth company White Lantern Film, had its local premiere at the Odeon on Westover Road.

The film stars Ziad Abaza as a kebab shop owner who is driven to desperation by his drunk and abusive customers and begins putting them into the kebabs.

The film crew used a then-empty shop unit in Gervis Place for the kebab shop, a stone’s throw from St Peter’s Church.

Bournemouth’s pier, seafront, coach station and hospital are among the other locations featured.

K-Shop’s premiere was attended by cast members Mr Abaza, Scot Williams, Ewen MacIntosh (who played Big Keith in The Office), Harry Reid (who plays Ben Mitchell in EastEnders) and Chris Wright.

Writer-director Dan Pringle said of the screening: “There was really a buzz around the whole of the cinema.

“I think they were surprised at the scale of the event and the film.”

Producer Adam J Merrifield said: “I think the film was well received. I think audiences are loving it. I think they get that you need a sense of humour in the movie.”

The film takes a scathing view of Britons’ relationship with drink. Many of its sequences showing drunken late-night behaviour were candid shots of real life events in Bournemouth town centre.

Mr Merrifield said: “We were showing it to a lot of local people and they really identified with something in the film. I think it also resonates with an audience up and down the country.

“I think Dan managed to capture the feel of how badly alcohol has changed the night time economy. How that changed, how we’ve managed to capture that has really resonated.”

Dan Pringle is now on tour with the film, answering audience questions at screenings.

The tour includes the Empire at Poole’s Tower Park on August 5 and Harbour Lights Picturehouse in Southampton on August 15. The premiere event was organised by the film’s distributor, Bulldog Distribution, and its public relations agency Fetch PR.

K-Shop comes to online streaming services, including iTunes, this Friday, July 22, and will be on DVD on August 1.