Kill List (Wheatley, 2011): Prince Charles Cinema, 5.30pm
Presented at the Prince Charles Cinema on 35mm with a special 15th Anniversary Post-Film Q&A with Director Ben Wheatley, as part of BLEAK WEEK 2026. Full details here.
Time Out review:
Much of ‘Kill List’ will be familiar to
anyone who caught ‘Down Terrace’ during its brief run last year: the
semi-improvised dialogue and naturalistic performances, the close,
documentary-style photography and the deep-seated sense of suburban
moral decay. But it’s altogether more confident: where the earlier
film leavened the darker moments with slapstick and satire, ‘Kill
List’ is an unrelentingly grim ride into the bleakest imaginable
terrain, its only humour black beyond belief. There will be some who find the resulting series of increasingly brutal
and dreamlike events hard to process, and a number of plot points
remain unexplained even as the credits roll. But allow the film to take
hold and its power is inescapable: the effect is like placing your
head in a vice and waiting as it inexorably closes. It’s hard to remember a British movie as nerve-shreddingly effective
since ‘Dead Man’s Shoes’ in 2004. Like that film, ‘Kill List’ may not
make the impact it deserves upon initial release. But this is a grower,
a film which lingers long in the memory: look for it on ‘Best of
British’ lists for a long time to come.
Tom Huddleston
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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