Kill List (2011)

[The Revelator]

This movie kind of blew my mind (not in an "OH MY GOD THIS IS AMAZING" way... but in a "woah wtf was that" way).

8/10

[Agent Panic]

Originally Posted by capecep

This film was disturbing in a way hard to describe, like disturbing to my soul. It reminded me of Fincher's The Game, except Spoiler Below

that the conspirators award the protagonist with a VIP pass to hell instead of a t-shirt.

I saw the end coming a mile away though, simply because films these days are trying too hard to be shocking. All I had to do was imagine the worst possible outcome and it came to pass. Still, this is a great slice of indie horror. Recommended.

I think you're very wrong about this film 'trying too hard to be shocking'. The end was foreshadowed within the first few minutes of the film and it's wholly possible that you were influenced by that without even realizing. There are certainly films that do try too hard to have shock scenes; this was not one of them. The ending was a deliberate and important part of the story, as it shows the last remnants of his goodness, that has constantly dwindled through the movie, finally dissipate completely as the cult revels around him. This film is very smart and works on levels that the casual viewer will not grasp.

[capecep]

Originally Posted by Agent Panic

I think you're very wrong about this film 'trying too hard to be shocking'. The end was foreshadowed within the first few minutes of the film and it's wholly possible that you were influenced by that without even realizing. There are certainly films that do try too hard to have shock scenes; this was not one of them. The ending was a deliberate and important part of the story, as it shows the last remnants of his goodness, that has constantly dwindled through the movie, finally dissipate completely as the cult revels around him. This film is very smart and works on levels that the casual viewer will not grasp.

The film was written to shock the viewer with it's ending (the creator admits this), and it's...(spoilers) coincidentally following a trend seen in other movies like A Serbian Film, The Human Centipede II, etc., where kids are fair game. ...Perhaps the writer was influenced by these movies without realizing. To my credit, when a DVD cover declares by some critic that the film is, "Devastating. Unimaginable.", it makes me wonder what's going to be devastating to these characters as soon as I meet them. Therefore, I kind of knew what kind of movie this was when it started. I'm not knocking the movie at all. I think it's great. But, it definitely projects itself to be one of those films. The movie is most certainly trying to be shocking and it definitely fits in the current crop of films. That's not a really a bad thing and I don't think there's a debate here.

[horrorking95]

LOVED IT! The best British horror film since Eden Lake!

10/10

[Midnight-Kroovy]

Originally Posted by horrorking95

LOVED IT! The best British horror film since Eden Lake!

10/10

Originally Posted by capecep

The film was written to shock the viewer with it's ending (the creator admits this)

When/where did the creator state he intended to only shock with the ending? Spoiler Below

I'd be interested in seeing that as the ending was foreshadowed with the child on his mothers back swinging a plastic sword at his father in the garden.

There are some very interesting readings about this film and I'm cynical at the notion that its merely shock value and sometimes shock value is effective because it has an allegory.