Killing Animals is a portrait of a lost generation of California youths. The lives of troubled teenage misfits intertwine as they experiment with vices of all kinds, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism.
Direction
Six distinct voices, one coherent nightmare.
Acting
James Franco playing tired authority, perfectly meta.
Production
California as character, rotting in golden light.
Director
Javier Bosques
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film adapts James Franco's own short story collection, making this essentially a vanity project about vanity projects.
Each director was assigned specific chapters, creating accidental parallels to the fragmented identity of the characters themselves.
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