Wednesday 4 April 2012

Saturday 3 March 2012

Kill List - A warning from Dangerous Minds



One of the best websites around - Dangerous Minds - has printed the following warning to all viewers of Kill List:

It’s rare these days for a film to genuinely creep me out. After decades of watching horror movies, the great, the good and the intolerably bad, it takes a lot to shake me up. So when I tell you that Ben Wheatley’s Kill List got under my skin like one of those leech-like critters in David Cronenberg’s They Came From Within, it’s both a warning and a recommendation.

Kill List manages to to do something that only really good art does: it is the thing it is about. This hellaciously unnerving film is as evil as the evil it depicts. When I reflect on some of the most disturbing films I’ve seen - Psycho, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Exorcist - I recall them not as compositions of various crafts - acting, direction, etc. - I re-experience them in their totality, a dark brand seared into the folds of my brain matter. These are not mere movies, they’re a form of magic, as arcane as alchemy and as modern as Blu Ray. They deposit the Devil’s cash in your memory bank, where it gains interest over the years, but the only checks you can write against it are in your nightmares.

Kill List has a mindbending plot, fine acting, direction and a superb score. You can find out more about the film online. The critical chatter is mostly positive. But this is not a review. It’s, as I said, a warning.


Take heed!

Sunday 13 November 2011

Kill List - UK Blu Ray and DVD release - Dec 26th



Kill List will be released on Blu Ray and DVD in the UK by Studio Canal on Dec 26th.
Details here.
Buy it from Amazon here.

Sunday 4 September 2011

Incredible reviews for UK release of Kill List

Kill List has been getting amazing reviews after its UK cinema release on Friday - here's a bunch

Film of the Week - Mark Kermode Radio 5 Live

"The best British Horror film in years" TOTAL FILM
"One of the best British Thrillers in Years" - Daily Mirror
"Film of the Week. Might be the film of the year" - LOVEFILM
"A cult classic in the making" CLASH
"Nerve shreddingly effective" Time Out
"Get ready for a head fuck. Darkly comic. Intense. Jaw dropping" LOADED
"A uniquely terrifying experience" Film of the Week - Alan Jones - RADIO TIMES
"The best British thriller since Dead Man’s Shoes - Breathtaking" Sky Movies
"The most original, unsettling and cerebrally menacing British film of the decade so far" FT
"Superbly jarring" - Danny Leigh
"As British horror goes right now, Kill List is pretty much top of the range" Peter Bradshaw - THE GUARDIAN
"Dark, funny & disturbing. Wheatley elevates himself from Kill List to A-List" - Kim Newman - EMPIRE
"A future classic" LITTLE WHITE LIES

Total Film - ***** - read full review here
Time Out - ***** - read full review here
Mirror ***** - read full review here
Loaded - ***** - read full review here
Nuts - ***** - read full review here
Sky Movies - ***** - read full review here
Radio Times - ***** - read full review here
Sunday Mirror - ***** - read full review here
The Scotsman - ***** - read full review here
Irish Times - ***** - read full review here
Financial Times - ***** - read fill review here
The Economist - read full review here
The Sun - ****
The Independent - **** - read full review here
The Guardian - **** - read full review here
Empire Magazine - **** - read full review here
Little White Lies - **** - read full review here
Yahoo Movies - **** - read full review here
Den of Geek - **** - read full review here

and these made us smile

the Daily Mail - disappointingly good review from Mr Musical Theatre here
Birmingham Mail - no stars! here

Wednesday 31 August 2011

Kill List - Cinemas

Here's the list of cinemas where Kill List is screening from 2nd September.

FULHAM ROAD CINEWORLD
HAYMARKET CINEWORLD
WANDSWORTH CINEWORLD
SOHO CURZON
LEICESTER SQUARE EMPIRE
HAMPSTEAD EVERYMAN
CAMDEN ODEON
GREENWICH ODEON
WHITELEYS ODEON
BRIXTON RITZY
ISLINGTON (GREEN) SCREEN
FINCHLEY ROAD VUE
ENFIELD CINEWORLD
STEVENAGE CINEWORLD
WEST INDIA QUAY CINEWORLD
HOLLOWAY ODEON
KINGSTON ODEON
WIMBLEDON ODEON
SHEPHERDS BUSH VUE
BRAINTREE CINEWORLD
MILTON KEYNES CINEWORLD
NOTTINGHAM BROADWAY
BIRMINGHAM BROAD ST CINEWORLD
NOTTINGHAM CINEWORLD
DIDSBURY CINEWORLD
LIVERPOOL ONE ODEON
MANCHESTER PRINTWORKS ODEON
LIVERPOOL PICTURE HOUSE
CARDIFF CINEWORLD
BRISTOL WATERSHED
ASHFORD CINEWORLD
CRAWLEY CINEWORLD
BRIGHTON DUKE OF YORK
PORTSMOUTH VUE
NEWCASTLE TYNESIDE CITYSCREEN CINEMA
SHEFFIELD CINEWORLD
SHEFFIELD SHOWROOM
LEEDS - LIGHT VUE
EDINBURGH CAMEO
EDINBURGH CINEWORLD
GLASGOW RENFREW ST CINEWORLD
GLASGOW BRAEHEAD ODEON
ABERDEEN UNION SQUARE CINEWORLD
DUBLIN CINEWORLD
DUBLIN IFI
DUBLIN SCREEN