Kill List (2011)
November 27, 2015 11:06 AM - Subscribe
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
This is a selection of MeFi Horror Club, details of which can be found here.
This is a selection of MeFi Horror Club, details of which can be found here.
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I liked this movie a lot! It's really good at keeping its own secret aside from one hint (that's pretty hard to glean anything useful from), early on.
posted by destructive cactus at 5:03 PM on November 27, 2015
posted by destructive cactus at 5:03 PM on November 27, 2015
This is one of my favourite films from the last few years. Seen it a few times now and it rewards repeat viewings. Even made the effort to buy the DVD because I wanted to here the director's commentary which is very insightful. Like that a lot of dialogue was improvised.
It's a great example of showing current Britain of people just kind of holding on whilst trying to scratch a living while horror bubbles away in the background. A country of housing estates and country estates and dreary mostly empty rundown motels and hotels on miserable midweek nights (yeah I've been there)
And that scene with the Librarian is utterly brutal, one of the best uses of violence in a horror film.
Also check out the director's other work (well may be not Down Terrance, I couldn't get on with that). I can't wait to see what he does with High Rise.
As an aside the very first time I heard of Kill List when I was listening to the Kermode and Mayo radio show on podcast whilst blackberry picking on the edge of a windswept field out in the countryside They played a clip of the encounter with the evangelical Christians before giving the review. No that didn't freak me out in the slightest
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:15 PM on December 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
It's a great example of showing current Britain of people just kind of holding on whilst trying to scratch a living while horror bubbles away in the background. A country of housing estates and country estates and dreary mostly empty rundown motels and hotels on miserable midweek nights (yeah I've been there)
And that scene with the Librarian is utterly brutal, one of the best uses of violence in a horror film.
Also check out the director's other work (well may be not Down Terrance, I couldn't get on with that). I can't wait to see what he does with High Rise.
As an aside the very first time I heard of Kill List when I was listening to the Kermode and Mayo radio show on podcast whilst blackberry picking on the edge of a windswept field out in the countryside They played a clip of the encounter with the evangelical Christians before giving the review. No that didn't freak me out in the slightest
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 1:15 PM on December 2, 2015 [1 favorite]
Years later, brought to the film by Wheatley’s later work in A Field in England and elsewhere. Loved it.
posted by mwhybark at 11:03 PM on March 21, 2020
posted by mwhybark at 11:03 PM on March 21, 2020
Looking at IMDB I amused to note three episodes of that elsewhere are CBS All-Access’ Strange Angel, a series I am watching with bemusement and surprise.
posted by mwhybark at 11:06 PM on March 21, 2020
posted by mwhybark at 11:06 PM on March 21, 2020
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posted by DirtyOldTown at 3:46 PM on November 27, 2015