Kill List directed by Ben Wheatley effortlessly blends multiple genres together to create a film that is extremely tense, atmospheric, darkly funny and thrilling.
Without spoiling the plot, Kill List follows two hitmen, (one of whom is recently retired) as they are enlisted to murder three targets. There's a fly on the wall quality to the movie which helps to make Kill-List feel grounded in reality and Ben Wheatley is a master at punctuating tension with dry humour.
Kill-list has an unnerving and creepy atmosphere which is driven by composer Jim Williams's artful and minimalistic sound design of haunting choir voices, droning cellos, eerie whistling and solo violins, all serving to create a terror-inducing soundscape.
There's a gritty and seedy realism to the film due largely to what the two hitmen discover at each crime scene, one such scene involves the two leads coming across storage lockers filled with illicit video tapes, which are heard but not seen by the audience, leaving the horrifying acts depicted in them partly up to our imagination, all we know is that whatever their contents it was enough to reduce a seasoned hitman to rage-full tears.
Kill-list deals heavily with occult themes and is clearly influenced by conspiracy theories surrounding cults comprised of the upper echelon of society, it's a film that is leagues above its low budget and is up there with some of the UK's best horror films.
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