I saw this film at AFI Fest and I didn’t really know what to expect - I just went ‘cause it was the only thing playing at midnight, and it was free. I ended up being completely terrified and really impressed. Imagine film as aesthetically impressive and ambitious as Tree of Life, but whose only goal is to make you scared shitless. Cinefamily’s doing a 1-week run in February. Here’s my blurb.
The most wickedly vibrant genre film to emerge out of England in years, Kill List is a tour de excessive force that might be as close as a hitman story will ever come to total filmic transcendence. Leading a cast full of breakout performances, Neil Maskell plays an increasingly bombastic and completely terrifying contract killer who comes out of an early retirement at the promise of a big payoff — handed to him by an organization more ominous than any such group of characters ever seen in the pantheon of gangster movies. Throughout this constantly morphing cinematic melange, director Ben Wheatly (Down Terrace) injects scalding fresh blood by diving into a dizzyingly unpredictable succession of genres, from nuanced marriage drama to heart attack-inducing horror, all seamlessly stitched together with the visual and sonic flair of a true auteur. Whether you worship at the altar of art house or the church of the midnight mass, Kill List will make you a convert.
http://www.cinefamily.org/films/kill-list-special-one-week-run/#kill-list-23-515pm
