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* CrypticConversation: Jay's victims thanking him before their deaths. In addition, the librarian asks Jay if Gal "knows who he [Jay] is"; it's never made entirely clear what this is referring to.
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* CrypticConversation: Jay's victims thanking seem to recognize him and thank him before their deaths. In addition, the librarian he kills them. The Librarian even asks Jay him if Gal "knows knows who he [Jay] is"; it's is. It's never made entirely clear what overtly explained, but this is referring to.
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*[[spoiler:{{Cult}}: The {{Cult}}: [[spoiler:The client and Fiona turn out to be part of one, and it's implied the targets are too. We don't learn exactly what they want or believe, but they seem to like death and sacrifice.]]
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* GenreShift: The film is basically split in thirds, with the first being a family drama, the second being a crime thriller and the third being horror.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: We (thankfully) don't get to see the librarian's porn video, but we know it was bad enough to provoke a ''very'' extreme reaction from Jay, leading to the deaths of everyone associated with it. Jay's reaction, by contrast, leaves nothing to the imagination.
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* ProfessionalKiller: Jay and Gal's profession. They definitely fall on the hitman side of the trope, as their work is portrayed as bleak and slightly seedy.
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* ProfessionalKiller: Jay and Gal's profession. They definitely fall on the hitman side of the trope, as their work is portrayed as bleak and slightly seedy.
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* DontGoInTheWoods: Jay and Gal entering the woods near the MP's house signals the film's GenreShift, and is where things [[ItGotWorse really start going badly for them]].
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* {{Gorn}}: Even by the standards of horror movies, the film is ''very'' gory - the most obvious example, of course, being Jay's graphic torture and murder of the second with a hammer.
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''Film/KillList'' is a 2011 British thriller/horror film directed by Ben Wheatley, written by Wheatley and Amy Jump Jump, and starring Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley and [=MyAnna=] Buring.
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''Film/KillList'' is a 2011 British thriller/horror film written and directed by Ben Wheatley, written by Wheatley and Amy Jump and starring Neil Maskell, Michael Smiley and [=MyAnna=] Buring.
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* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Jay.
--> '''Jay:''' It doesn't feel wrong. They're bad people. They should suffer.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Jay gets the palm of his left hand slashed open by the client so that Jay's blood will splatter on the contract along with the client's, forming a sinister BloodOath. While Jay cleans the wound, Gal notes that [[ComicallyMissingThePoint at least the client didn't cut the hand Jay jerks off with.]]
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* SnuffFilm: What the librarian's porn collection (presumably) consists of.
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* OneLastJob: Pointedly averted, according to WordOfGod. Jay doesn't accept the contract as his last job before he retires - killing people is his ''profession'', and he's simply been off work for eight months.
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* OneLastJob: Pointedly averted, according to WordOfGod. Many critics mistakenly got the impression that Jay accepts the contract as this, but the film never even suggests this. Jay doesn't accept the contract as his last job before he retires - killing people is his ''profession'', and he's simply been off work for eight months.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: After seeing the librarian's apparently horrific porn video, Jay decides to torture him before killing him just to make him suffer.
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* ColdBloodedTorture: After seeing the librarian's apparently horrific porn video, Jay decides to torture him before killing him him, firstly to get the names of his associates and then just to make him suffer.
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* BloodOath: When meeting the client, he slashes Jay's palm open so that both his and the client's blood spills onto the contract. Gal reacts by pointing a gun at the client, but Jay inexplicably finds nothing strange about this.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Shel's national service.
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* KitchenSinkDrama: The film was acclaimed by many critics for its highly naturalistic dialogue and believable presentation of a normal middle-class family.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Gal, at times.
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--> '''Gal:''' ... it had its moments.
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* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: It's initially implied that some of the weirder events in the plot might be symptomatic of Jay suffering from PTSD (such as, for example, a bizarre sequence in which he looks out his hotel window and sees Fiona standing there, waving at him). By the end of the film, it looks a lot more like the events depicted are really happening.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: We (thankfully) don't get to see the librarian's porn video, but we know it was bad enough to provoke a ''very'' extreme reaction from Jay, leading to the deaths of everyone associated with it.
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* TakeOurWordForIt: We (thankfully) don't get to see the librarian's porn video, but we know it was bad enough to provoke a ''very'' extreme reaction from Jay, leading to the deaths of everyone associated with it. Jay's reaction, by contrast, leaves nothing to the imagination.
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* WholePlotReference: Bizarre as it may sound, the whole film is a play upon Arthurian myth and legend.
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* KitchenSinkDrama: The film was acclaimed by many critics for its highly naturalistic dialogue and believable presentation of a normal middle-class family.
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* MoodWhiplash: There's some surprisingly funny moments scattered amongst all the violence and horror.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Jay, maybe. He's been semi-retired since a mission in Kiev, and tells his son stories about his experiences in "Baghdadistan".
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: Jay's treatment of the librarian is incredibly brutal, but unlike the others on the list it's made clear that he ''really'' deserves it.
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* PayEvilUntoEvil: Jay's treatment of the librarian is incredibly brutal, but unlike the others on the list it's made clear that he ''really'' deserves it.
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* GottaKillThemAll: The film's basic premise. Jay and Gal are given the titular list and are paid to kill everyone on it.
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* MysteriousEmployer: The client. Neither the characters or the audience ever learn his name and it's never made entirely clear what his agenda is.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: Kiev. We never find out what happened there, other than it left Jay physically and mentally scarred enough that he spent eight months out of work.
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* NoodleIncident: Kiev. We never find out what happened there, other than it left Jay physically and mentally scarred enough that he spent eight months out of work.
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'Kill List' is a 2011 British thriller/horror film directed by Ben Wheatley. It follows a somewhat reluctant hitman, Jay, and his best friend, Gal, as they go down a "kill list" of targets. But as they complete the hits, they begin to uncover disturbing connections between their victims, their employers, and themselves.
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* ActionGirl: The movie firmly establishes Jay's wife is a trained soldier, and we see it in action.
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* ActionGirl: The movie firmly establishes Jay's wife is a trained soldier, and we see it in action.
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''Film/KillList'' is a 2011 British thriller/horror film directed by Ben
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* ActionGirl: The movie firmly establishes
* ArcSymbol: The symbol shown in the poster above. It's first seen at the very start of the film, is carved into the back of Jay's mirror by Fiona and is found by Gal on files in the librarian's safe. [[spoiler:Eventually, it's revealed to be the symbol/logo of the cult.]]
* AssholeVictim: Discussed. Jay is adamant that all the people on the list are bad people and deserve to die. Though we see this is true for the librarian, we can only infer that it's true for the others on the list.
* [[spoiler:TheBadGuysWin: It's not entirely clear what the cult wants, but they seem to come out of the film on top.]]
* BookEnds: The film begins and ends with a shot of the ArcSymbol mentioned above.
* ColdBloodedTorture: After seeing the librarian's apparently horrific porn video, Jay decides to torture him before killing him just to make him suffer.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The librarian's brutal death by hammer. Notably, this lacks a GoryDiscretionShot; we see it onscreen in all its bloody detail.
* CrypticConversation: Jay's victims thanking him before their deaths. In addition, the librarian asks Jay if Gal "knows who he [Jay] is"; it's never made entirely clear what this is referring to.
* [[spoiler:{{Cult}}: The client and Fiona turn out to be part of one, and it's implied the targets are too. We don't learn exactly what they want or believe, but they seem to like death and sacrifice.]]
* DarknessEqualsDeath: [[spoiler:Jay and Gal try to escape the cultists in a darkened tunnel system. Gal doesn't make it out alive.]]
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* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Gal's girlfriend, one of the first hints in the film that something is very, very wrong here.
* GenreShift: And then some.
* ItGotWorse: Could be a poster child for the trope. Just when you think the movie is at its absolute darkest, it'll somehow get more disturbing and awful.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The movie takes a rather abrupt turn into 'Wicker Man' territory towards the end of the second act.]]
* GenreShift: And then some.
* ItGotWorse: Could be a poster child for the trope. Just when you think the movie is at its absolute darkest, it'll somehow get more disturbing and awful.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The movie takes a rather abrupt turn into 'Wicker Man' territory towards the end of the second act.]]
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* DontGoInTheWoods: Jay and Gal entering the woods near the MP's house signals the film's GenreShift, and is where things [[ItGotWorse really start going badly for them]].
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Gal's new girlfriend, Fiona, one of the first hints in the film that something is very, very wrong here.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several seemingly innocuous events early in the film foreshadow events in the last act:
** Jay and Gal's play fight after the dinner party becomes a real fight when their relationship's tested late in the film.
** [[spoiler:Jay finding the rabbit left with its entrails hanging out by the cats mirrors how he finds the wounded Gal in the tunnels.]]
** [[spoiler:Jay's play fight with Shel and Sammy foreshadows how he's forced to fight and kill them for real at the film's climax.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler:Some of the cultists]] are completely naked when they attack Jay and Gal. It only serves to make them creepier.
* GenreShift:And then some.
* ItGotWorse: Could be a poster child for the trope. Just when you think the movie is at its absolute darkest, it'll somehow get more disturbing and awful.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:The movie takes a rather abrupt turn into 'Wicker Man' territory towards the end first hour of the second act.]]film is a very dark and creepy crime thriller. After this it moves much more firmly into horror territory.
* InitiationCeremony: [[spoiler:Jay's fight with "the hunchback" (really Shel and Sammy) seems to serve as his involuntary initiation into the cult.]]
* [[spoiler:KillTheOnesYouLove: Jay has to deliver a MercyKill to Gal and is forced by the cult to fight Shel and Sammy, ending with him killing them both.]]
* MalevolentMaskedMen: [[spoiler:The cultists.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:After he's mortally wounded by one of the cultists, Jay has to put Gal out of his misery.]]
* MindScrew: The film's plotting is deliberately opaque and unclear, particularly regarding [[spoiler:who's in the cult and what their motivations are]]. This has opened the film up to a lot of different interpretations.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Gal warns Jay that [[spoiler:attacking the cultists]] is a bad idea. Jay does it anyway, with tragic consequences as it leads directly to [[spoiler:the deaths of Gal, Shel and Sammy]].
* NoNameGiven: The names of the client and all of Jay and Gal's targets are never revealed.
* NoodleIncident: Kiev. We never find out what happened there, other than it left Jay physically and mentally scarred enough that he spent eight months out of work.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: After Jay and Gal try to back out of the job late in the film, the client makes them one of these -- they finish the list or their families die.
* PaedophilePriest: Discussed. The first target is a priest, and Jay wonders if this might be the reason he's on the list.
* PluckyComicRelief: Gal acts as this, providing much needed light relief in what is a very dark film.
* ProfessionalKiller: Jay and Gal's profession. They definitely fall on the hitman side of the trope, as their work is portrayed as bleak and slightly seedy.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The porn on the librarian's computer provokes one of these in Jay. He goes "off-list" and tortures and kills the librarian in an exceptionally brutal way, then goes and murders all his associates too. Gal is visibly shocked by this.
* TakeOurWordForIt: We (thankfully) don't get to see the librarian's porn video, but we know it was bad enough to provoke a ''very'' extreme reaction from Jay, leading to the deaths of everyone associated with it.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Gal's new girlfriend, Fiona, one of the first hints in the film that something is very, very wrong here.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Several seemingly innocuous events early in the film foreshadow events in the last act:
** Jay and Gal's play fight after the dinner party becomes a real fight when their relationship's tested late in the film.
** [[spoiler:Jay finding the rabbit left with its entrails hanging out by the cats mirrors how he finds the wounded Gal in the tunnels.]]
** [[spoiler:Jay's play fight with Shel and Sammy foreshadows how he's forced to fight and kill them for real at the film's climax.]]
* FullFrontalAssault: [[spoiler:Some of the cultists]] are completely naked when they attack Jay and Gal. It only serves to make them creepier.
* GenreShift:
* ItGotWorse: Could be a poster child for the trope. Just when you think the movie is at its absolute darkest, it'll somehow get more disturbing and awful.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler:
* InitiationCeremony: [[spoiler:Jay's fight with "the hunchback" (really Shel and Sammy) seems to serve as his involuntary initiation into the cult.]]
* [[spoiler:KillTheOnesYouLove: Jay has to deliver a MercyKill to Gal and is forced by the cult to fight Shel and Sammy, ending with him killing them both.]]
* MalevolentMaskedMen: [[spoiler:The cultists.]]
* MercyKill: [[spoiler:After he's mortally wounded by one of the cultists, Jay has to put Gal out of his misery.]]
* MindScrew: The film's plotting is deliberately opaque and unclear, particularly regarding [[spoiler:who's in the cult and what their motivations are]]. This has opened the film up to a lot of different interpretations.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Gal warns Jay that [[spoiler:attacking the cultists]] is a bad idea. Jay does it anyway, with tragic consequences as it leads directly to [[spoiler:the deaths of Gal, Shel and Sammy]].
* NoNameGiven: The names of the client and all of Jay and Gal's targets are never revealed.
* NoodleIncident: Kiev. We never find out what happened there, other than it left Jay physically and mentally scarred enough that he spent eight months out of work.
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: After Jay and Gal try to back out of the job late in the film, the client makes them one of these -- they finish the list or their families die.
* PaedophilePriest: Discussed. The first target is a priest, and Jay wonders if this might be the reason he's on the list.
* PluckyComicRelief: Gal acts as this, providing much needed light relief in what is a very dark film.
* ProfessionalKiller: Jay and Gal's profession. They definitely fall on the hitman side of the trope, as their work is portrayed as bleak and slightly seedy.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: The porn on the librarian's computer provokes one of these in Jay. He goes "off-list" and tortures and kills the librarian in an exceptionally brutal way, then goes and murders all his associates too. Gal is visibly shocked by this.
* TakeOurWordForIt: We (thankfully) don't get to see the librarian's porn video, but we know it was bad enough to provoke a ''very'' extreme reaction from Jay, leading to the deaths of everyone associated with it.
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'Kill List' is a 2011 British thriller/horror film directed by Ben Wheatley. It follows a somewhat reluctant hitman, Jay, and his best friend, Gal, as they go down a "kill list" of targets. But as they complete the hits, they begin to uncover disturbing connections between their victims, their employers, and themselves.
Tropes include:
* ActionGirl: The movie firmly establishes Jay's wife is a trained soldier, and we see it in action.
* DinnerAndAShow: Early on, Jay and his wife have an enormous fight in front of guests.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Gal's girlfriend, one of the first hints in the film that something is very, very wrong here.
* GenreShift: And then some.
* ItGotWorse: Could be a poster child for the trope. Just when you think the movie is at its absolute darkest, it'll somehow get more disturbing and awful.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The movie takes a rather abrupt turn into 'Wicker Man' territory towards the end of the second act.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: To a point. Jay and Gal are close friends, but as the film progresses, the vitriol is sometimes not teasing on Jay's part.
* WhamEnding: [[spoiler: The movie ends with a human sacrifice.]]
Tropes include:
* ActionGirl: The movie firmly establishes Jay's wife is a trained soldier, and we see it in action.
* DinnerAndAShow: Early on, Jay and his wife have an enormous fight in front of guests.
* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Gal's girlfriend, one of the first hints in the film that something is very, very wrong here.
* GenreShift: And then some.
* ItGotWorse: Could be a poster child for the trope. Just when you think the movie is at its absolute darkest, it'll somehow get more disturbing and awful.
* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The movie takes a rather abrupt turn into 'Wicker Man' territory towards the end of the second act.]]
* VitriolicBestBuds: To a point. Jay and Gal are close friends, but as the film progresses, the vitriol is sometimes not teasing on Jay's part.
* WhamEnding: [[spoiler: The movie ends with a human sacrifice.]]
