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.
Direction
Wheatley's kitchen-sink realism colliding with inexplicable horror.
Acting
Maskell's unraveling from bloke banter to broken animal.
Sound
Dinner party arguments scarier than most jump scares.
Director
Ben Wheatley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 2010s British 'folk horror revival' alongside The Witch and Midsommar, but way less pretty.
The infamous dinner party scene was largely improvised; the cast were actually getting drunk to capture that brittle, real tension.
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