2011 · horror · crime · thriller
Kill List
Directed by Ben Wheatley1h 35m2011
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.
Our read: Kill List (2011) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- inventive
- bleak
- cold
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