Kill List (2011) 🐇👹🩸

“Thank you”

Continuing the trend of movies-that-randomly pop-into-my-head-on-bright-sunny-days, today I offer Kill List, the super minimalist British folk-horror tale of two hitmen on a job that turns out to be much more complicated than they expected. I’ve watched this movie twice, and though I’m still not sure what I saw, it sure does keep me up at night (just how I like it 😏). Director Ben Wheatley crafted the horror around his own childhood nightmares, then built a script tailored to the individual actors, giving this movie a very tense, grounded, claustrophobic vibe. In a 2012 interview with Indiewire, he talked about the film’s construction, saying “it’s about the way the scenes butt up against each other. That’s the information that builds over the running time of the movie to give you this kind of rounded idea of what people are like”. It’s a very human movie, full of men having pent up feelings, with a little sprinkle of the supernatural. The lore of Kill List feels similar to the lore in Hereditary and Midsommar — if you enjoyed either of those, you should check this one out!
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