

Kill List
Who’s next?
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.
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6.2/10
925 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $500K
- Box office
- $450.3K
- Language
- Swedish
- hotel
- husband wife relationship
- post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd)
- hitman
- cult
- infection
- forest
- priest
- murderer
- brutality
- bonfire
- ceremony
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Produced in
United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereNRSouth by Southwest Film Festival12 Mar 2011
- Digital / OTTNR4 Jan 2012
- TheatricalNR (limited)3 Feb 2012
- PremiereWisconsin Film Festival20 Apr 2012
United KingdomGB
- PremiereFrightfest28 Aug 2011
- Theatrical182 Sept 2011
United Arab EmiratesAE
- PhysicalDVD26 Dec 2011
AustraliaAU
- PhysicalR 18+DVD11 Jan 2012
CanadaCA
- Premiere18AToronto International Film Festival17 Sept 2011
- PremiereVancouver International Film Festival29 Sept 2011
ArgentinaAR
- Premiere18Mar del Plata Film Festival11 Nov 2011
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical189 Jan 2013
BrazilBR
- PhysicalDVD26 Dec 2011
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1525 Dec 2011
FinlandFI
- PremiereK-18Espoo Film Festival20 Aug 2011
- PremiereK-18Helsinki International Film Festival16 Sept 2011
FranceFR
- PremiereL'Étrange Festival3 Sept 2011
- PremiereStrasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival17 Sept 2011
- PremiereBeaune Film Festival31 Mar 2012
- PremiereLyon Festival Hallucinations Collectives7 Apr 2012
- Theatrical1611 Jul 2012
GermanyDE
- Physical18DVD6 Apr 2012
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Kill List was released on 2 September 2011.
Audience reviews
4- J8/10
John Chard
11/2/2015
Sometimes God's love can be hard to swallow. A super slice of sub-urban horror crafted by Ben Wheatley, Kill List blends a number of classic British films but still remains very much its own beast. And what a beast it is. Part hit-man thriller and part Wicker Man pagan horror, plot spins hit-man for hire Jay (Neil Maskell) out of his troubled domestic funk, into a world of pain and misery. Taking on a job, he, alo…
- T8/10
tmdb15435519
4/26/2021
A bit tough to understand on the first watch, yet gripping and a compelling portrayal of inner demons. But seriously, are the British the only film-makers who can make a decent crime/thriller film??
- R3/10
r96sk
9/11/2024
Rubbi... Wait, people love this? Before I started my review, I decided to take a quick look at the Letterboxd reviews. I always play a minigame in my head by attempting to guess the average rating, for example for the last film I watched - <em>'Jack the Giant Slayer'</em> - I called it spot on at 2.4. This I genuinely predicted less than 2.0... it's at 3.5! To tell you I was flabbergasted would be an understatemen…
- F8/10
FolknHell
8/25/2026
*Kill List*’s cleverest trick is not that it turns into a folk-horror film. It is that, by the time the masks and torches arrive, it has quietly made the case that Jay has been inside one all along. For much of the film Ben Wheatley shoots his world like grubby domestic reportage: handheld cameras, naturalistic light, awkward rooms, rows about money, men trying to recover some idea of usefulness through work they …
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