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Kill List

Who’s next?

6.2(925)20111h 35m4

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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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

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Ben Wheatley

Produced in

United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden

Gallery

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Videos

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

Frequently asked questions

Kill List was released on 2 September 2011.

Audience reviews

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    John Chard

    11/2/2015

    8/10

    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…

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    tmdb15435519

    4/26/2021

    8/10

    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??

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    r96sk

    9/11/2024

    3/10

    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…

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    FolknHell

    8/25/2026

    8/10

    *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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