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Kill List

United Kingdom

2011

92 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
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DIR Ben Wheatley

EXEC Katherine Butler, Robin Gutch, Hugo Heppell, Mark Herbert

PROD Claire Jones, Andrew Starke

SCR Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump

DP Laurie Rose

CAST Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley, MyAnna Buring, Struan Rodger, Ben Crompton, Emma Fryer

ED Robin Hill

PROD DES David Butterworth

MUSIC Jim Williams

SOUND Rob Entwistle

SXSW (SX Fantastic), Karlovy Vary (Variety's Ten Euro Directors to Watch), Melbourne (Night Shift), Toronto (Midnight Madness), Helsinki (Genre Glitter), Vancouver (Cinema of Our Time), AFI FEST (Midnight), Stockholm (Twilight Zone), Mar del Plata (Hora cero), Rotterdam (Bright Future), Istanbul (Midnight Madness)

Synopsis

Eight months after a disastrous job in Kiev left him physically and mentally scarred, ex-soldier turned contract killer Jay, is pressured by his partner Gal, into taking a new assignment. As they descend into the dark, disturbing world of the contract, Jay begins to unravel once again – his fear and paranoia sending him deep into the heart of darkness. —SXSW

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Andrei Turcu

22May12

i hate this film.

tangosierra

11May12

I don't get the hype, I just don't. This is an awful film on so many levels, maybe I just don't see it :( Don't get me wrong, there's the odd moment that was good, made me laugh or squirm, but as a film... Just didn't cut it for me. One example to end them all, the cutting was awful... what were those horrific jump cuts in some of the scenes, covering mistakes I suspect, or if not, a really bad effort to unsettle.

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Clive.R.Watson

8May12

His face at the end sums it up......'tf?' .....The tension existed until that stupid pagan/occult/whatever bit began.

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domina vegrandis

7May12

Truly unsettling.

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Articles

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Movie Poster of the Week: “Kill List”

By Adrian Curry on February 3, 2012

An interview with Jay Shaw about his striking new Mondo poster for Ben Wheatley’s Kill List.

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Daily Briefing. Cinema Scope 49

By David Hudson on December 23, 2011

Featuring an interview with Ai Weiwei and more. Also: The Gold Rush and Last Year at Marienbad in New York.

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Scary Monsters and Midnight Madness

By David Hudson on October 1, 2011

For many cinephiles, Halloween is a season, not an eve, and it begins today. Also: Wrapping Toronto’s Midnight Madness program.

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In the UK. Ben Wheatley's "Kill List"

By David Hudson on September 2, 2011

“Wheatley might be the most idiosyncratic and exciting filmmaker the UK has produced since Shane Meadows.”

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Wanted: Wow. Received: WTF.

By Michael Harbour on March 4, 2012

I was admittedly pretty tired when I saw “Kill List” late at night two weeks into seeing two to five movies a day at a film festival. Perhaps that contributed to the confusion. There’s lots of good…  read review

A misanthropic celebration of violence and a twist in the end sums up all this film is about

By Henrik Schunk on January 13, 2012

This film would have been an interesting short film but as a feature film it just does not work as there is just not enough to it. The acting is solid, but the actors pretty much all play themselves…  read review

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KILL LIST - THE MEANING?

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De-Glamorizing the Assassin

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