Kill List
Directed by Ben Wheatley
Ben Wheatley follows up his heralded Down Terrace with another inventive, genre-flouting film. Taking a non-traditional approach to the horror genre, Kill List begins with an uncomfortable dinner party with two hit men in attendance and takes several different dramatic (and, eventually, quite bloody) turns after that. Moving effortlessly from kitchen-sink realism to stakeout humor and ending up in the occult territory of The Wicker Man, Wheatley's film is consistently unsettling, surprising and shocking. As the London Guardian puts it, "If Ricky Gervais or Mike Leigh made a horror film, it might look something like this."
TRAILER
"The best British genre film in years."
—Total Film
"Kill List will leave your bones rattling."
—Indiewire
"Artfully made and sensitively acted, this is a slippery, teasing thriller that trusts its audience to follow the kitchen-sink marital quarrels as closely as the things going bump in the night." —Variety
"A first-class nerve-jangling horror film." —Time Out New York
"Grade A, A brutally unsettling masterpiece." —IndieWIRE
"Every component of Kill List is on fire. I beg of you to see it. It will shake you." —Fangoria
"Kill List is a film that almost certainly demands and will reward a second viewing, if nothing else to fully appreciate what Wheatley is doing here, combining a seething dramatic atmosphere where naturalistic conversational exchanges arise, with blunt passion and actions that reflect the inner turmoil of the characters." —Twitch
"As far as British horror goes right now, Kill List is pretty much top of the range."
—The Guardian
"The best horror film of the year." —Bloody Disgusting
England 2011, 96 min. Written by Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley. Photographed by Laurie Rose. With Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson. IFC Films.
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office open online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
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TRAILER
"The best British genre film in years."
—Total Film
"Kill List will leave your bones rattling."
—Indiewire
"Artfully made and sensitively acted, this is a slippery, teasing thriller that trusts its audience to follow the kitchen-sink marital quarrels as closely as the things going bump in the night." —Variety
"A first-class nerve-jangling horror film." —Time Out New York
"Grade A, A brutally unsettling masterpiece." —IndieWIRE
"Every component of Kill List is on fire. I beg of you to see it. It will shake you." —Fangoria
"Kill List is a film that almost certainly demands and will reward a second viewing, if nothing else to fully appreciate what Wheatley is doing here, combining a seething dramatic atmosphere where naturalistic conversational exchanges arise, with blunt passion and actions that reflect the inner turmoil of the characters." —Twitch
"As far as British horror goes right now, Kill List is pretty much top of the range."
—The Guardian
"The best horror film of the year." —Bloody Disgusting
England 2011, 96 min. Written by Amy Jump, Ben Wheatley. Photographed by Laurie Rose. With Neil Maskell, MyAnna Buring, Harry Simpson. IFC Films.
Tickets $9 for SFFS members, $11 general, $10 senior/student/disabled. Box office open online at sffs.org and in person at SF Film Society Cinema.
March 16-22
Showtimes 2:30, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00
(2:30 show only on March 18 and 20)
SF Film Society Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Showtimes 2:30, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00
(2:30 show only on March 18 and 20)
SF Film Society Cinema
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)