"I'm Barney Thomson, and I've got two styles: short, back and sides; and back and sides... My life's always been boring."
Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting, The Full Monty) is Barney Thomson, barber and then - unexpectedly - a killer caught up in a string of serial killings, in the new comedy The Legend of Barney Thomson.
The trailer for the new film shows Thomson accidentally killing his boss in a heated exchange, and not knowing how to dispose of the body.
Emma Thompson who plays Carlyle's Mum (although she is just two year's older) appears more unimpressed at her son's incompetence - he's still driving around with the body in the boot - than the mess they've found themselves in. He's worried he's become a murderer, she's more concerned she's lost her biscuit into her tea.
And if her son's going to leave a body around the house, she's going to chop it into sortable pieces - and label them. It is a comedy after all.
I label everything.
The film, which premiered this week at opening night of the Edinburgh Film Festival, is based on 'The Barbershop Seven' series by authour Douglas Lindsay.
The Legend of Barney Thomson will screen in Australian cinemas in September.
