Angel flees and falls into the castle's catacombs, where he finds the corpses of the NWA's other victims. Frank has since vowed to win Sandford the Village of the Year award every year, no matter the cost. Frank's late wife Irene put everything into helping Sandford win the first "Village of the Year", but travellers ruined their chances the night before the judges arrived, driving her to suicide. Angel confronts the NWA, led by Frank, who reveals they committed the murders, staged as accidents, for various petty reasons as each victim threatened Sandford's chances of winning Village of the Year. Angel incapacitates him and learns of a secret NWA meeting at Sandford Castle. However, Skinner has an alibi.Īfter surmising that there may be multiple killers, Angel is attacked in his hotel room by one of Skinner's employees, Michael "Lurch" Armstrong. Angel suspects supermarket manager Simon Skinner, as the property deal would have built a rival supermarket. While Angel retrieves his notebook, she is stabbed with her garden shears Angel gives chase but loses the killer. Whilst buying Danny a late birthday gift, Angel learns from Leslie Tiller, the village florist, about her plans to sell her land to Merchant's business partners. However, a cloaked figure dislodges masonry atop the church's tower, which falls and kills Messenger. Local journalist Tim Messenger approaches Angel at a village fête, claiming to have information. That night, a cloaked figure attacks wealthy land developer George Merchant in his home and kills him in a deliberate gas explosion.Īngel suspects that the killings are connected to a recent property deal. Angel warms to Danny, and together they binge-watch action movies. Sent to resolve a small dispute, Angel discovers an illegal weapons stash, including an old sea mine, and confiscates it. Angel is the only officer who suspects foul play. His partner, Danny Butterman, whom he (unknowingly) arrested for drink-driving, is a fan of buddy cop films and is the son of Inspector Frank Butterman, Angel's superior.Ī cloaked axe-wielding figure decapitates Martin Blower and Eve Draper, the two lead actors of an am-dram production of Romeo and Juliet, whom Angel had pulled over for speeding, and stages it as a car crash. Angel is soon frustrated by the mundanity of the village, his colleagues, and the local police and Neighbourhood Watch Alliance (NWA) commitment to low crime statistics rather than law enforcement. Nicholas Angel, a high-achieving Metropolitan Police officer, is promoted to Sergeant, but his resentful colleagues arrange for him to be reassigned to the small rural town of Sandford, Gloucestershire, a regular "Village of the Year" winner. In 2020, Empire named it the 67th greatest film of the 21st century. The film opened on 16 February 2007 in the United Kingdom and 20 April in the United States to box office success, grossing US$80 million worldwide against a budget of $12–16 million. Ten artists worked on visual effects, which involved explosions, gory gunfire scenes, and a flip book. Principal photography took place in Wells, Somerset for eleven weeks. Over 100 action films were used as inspiration for developing the script. It is the second and most successful film in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy, succeeding Shaun of the Dead (2004) and followed by The World's End (2013). Starring Pegg, Nick Frost, Timothy Dalton, and Jim Broadbent, the film centres on two police officers investigating a series of mysterious and gruesome deaths in a West Country village. Hot Fuzz is a 2007 action comedy film directed by Edgar Wright and written by Wright and Simon Pegg.
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