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Kill List

August 2023

  • Neil Maskell

    Neil Maskell: ‘If me and Idris Elba got into a physical altercation, I’d last about a second!’

    From terrifying audiences in Kill List to squaring up to Elba in airline thriller Hijack, the actor has made his name playing a host of wrong’uns. Now he’s leaving the baddies behind to direct a Belgium-based whistleblower drama

February 2023

  • The Strays.

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    The Strays to Kill List: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Ashley Madekwe heads up a smart, snappy psychological thriller about escaping a murky past, while Ben Wheatley’s visceral film about a hitman really packs a punch

April 2017

  • Bleakly absurd acts of violence … Kill List.

    Cults, human sacrifice and pagan sex: how folk horror is flowering again in Brexit Britain

    From Kill List to Blood on Satan’s Claw, celebrate May Day with a journey into the dark heart of the English countryside

June 2013

  • Ben Wheatley: master of the macabre

    The British director with an eye for the unsettling is following Sightseers with a micro-budget psychedelic civil war-era head trip. But don't rule him out of having a crack at Spider-Man one day

September 2011

  • A scene from Kill List

    Kill List – review

    Suburban thriller meets The Wicker Man in Ben Wheatley's cleverly unsettling British horror movie, writes Philip French
  • Kill List

    Film blog
    Can Kill List breathe life into Britain's film industry?

    Danny Leigh: After years of gloom, the buzz around Ben Wheatley's occult chiller suggests British audiences are finally developing a taste for British film
  • Kill List

    Kill List – review

    If Ricky Gervais or Mike Leigh made a horror film, it might look something like this unsettlingly strange offering from British director Ben Wheatley, says Peter Bradshaw

August 2011

  • Film talk
    Kill List: 'I wanted to make the violence as realistic as possible' - video

    Kill List director Ben Wheatley and stars Neil Maskell and MyAnna Buring discuss their new hitman thriller and the responsibilities of showing violence on screen

  • kill-list

    Kill List: it's a war film, it's a horror film, it's complicated

    What at first seems like a post-Iraq gangster movie becomes a bizarre genre mash-up. "I don't envy the marketing team," admits director Ben Wheatley

  • Kill List: Watch an exclusive clip - video

    Ben Wheatley's Kill List stars Neil Maskell and is released in the UK on 2 September

March 2011

  • Kill List

    'I know it's brilliant': Ben Wheatley and Michael Smiley on SXSW hit Kill List

    The director and star of Kill List ponder the SXSW reaction to the terrifying thriller with which they have followed Down Terrace

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