Kill List

Kill List

Year 2011
Runtime 95 mins
Language English
Alberta Premiere

If you think living in a recession-ravaged world isn’t brutal enough, just introduce death. Half crime thriller, half outright horror, KILL LIST bends the hitman genre into an intensely dark psychological film that’s already gained a reputation for leaving audiences with the “Kill List stare.”

Eight months after a failed assignment that’s left him empty and struggling like so many to take care of his family, Jay (Neil Maskell) is approached by his partner and best friend, Gal (Michael Smiley), for another job: three names, three deaths. But the job’s simplicity hides more than the usual problems of planning a murder — the pair’s descent into the world of its targets will leave them irrevocably changed. And the same goes for the audience.

Directed and written (with Amy Jump) by Ben Wheatley, whose first feature, DOWN TERRACE, drew terror and dark humour out of a murderous family, KILL LIST is an uncommonly raw journey of death, desperation and, ultimately, judgement.

Countries

United Kingdom
Festivals
Toronto International Film Festival 2011
Director
Ben Wheatley
Executive Producer
Katherine Butler, Robin Gutch, Hugo Heppell, Mark Herbert
Producer
Claire Jones, Andrew Starke
Screenwriter
Ben Wheatley, Amy Jump
Cinematographer
Laurie Rose
Editor
Robin Hill
Production Design
David Butterworth
Cast
Neil Maskell
MyAnna Buring
Michael Smiley