Sleazy schoolgirl decapitated in Birmingham horror

May 17 2009 by Roz Laws, Sunday Mercury

APRIL Pearson was the head girl of her school, a self-confessed geek who always obeyed the rules.

So it’s a surprise for her proud but shocked family to see her on screen playing debauched teenagers.

The actress shot to fame in the controversial but acclaimed Channel 4 drama Skins, and now she’s making her film debut in the slasher movie Tormented.

Filmed for six weeks in Birmingham, Tormented stars a host of young acting talent, including heart-throb Alex Pettyfer, as school pupils.

April plays his girlfriend Tash, a bullying bitch who wears the shortest of skirts.

The 20 year-old laughs: “If I had turned up to school looking like her, I’d have been expelled on the spot! We had to wear skirts over the knee, a long blazer and even a felt hat.

“I would never dress like Tash, with a belt for skirt. But it’s fun to play someone so different to me.”

Tormented receives its national premiere at Cineworld on Broad Street, Birmingham, on Thursday. It was filmed at Bishop Vesey and Streetly schools in Sutton Coldfield, and St Peter’s Church in Harborne.

The film begins with the funeral of a pupil who killed himself because he was being bullied. He appears to come back from the dead to wreak his revenge, leading Alex and April to dig up his body.

It’s there Tash meets a very gruesome death involving decapitation.