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{{Infobox film
| name           = Kill List
| image          = Kill-list-poster.jpg
| alt            = <!-- see WP:ALT -->
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Ben Wheatley]]
| producer       = {{plainlist|
* Claire Jones
* [[Andy Starke]]
}}
| writer         = {{plainlist|
* Ben Wheatley
* [[Amy Jump]]
}}
| starring       = {{plainlist|
* [[Neil Maskell]]
* [[MyAnna Buring]]
* [[Michael Smiley]]
}}
| music          = Jim Williams
| cinematography = [[Laurie Rose (cinematographer)|Laurie Rose]]
| editing        = {{plainlist|
* Robin Hill
* Ben Wheatley
* Amy Jump
}}
| studio         = {{plainlist|
* [[Warp Films|Warp X]]
* Rook Films
* [[Film4 Productions]]
* [[UK Film Council]]
* [[Screen Yorkshire]]
}}
| distributor    = [[StudioCanal UK|Optimum Releasing]]
| released       = {{Film date|df=y|2011|03|12|[[SXSW]]|ref1=<ref name=premiere>{{cite web|url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/sxsw-kill-list-world-premiere-167166|title=SXSW: 'Kill List' World Premiere – Sex Pistols, Trash Talking, Beer Shotgunning Relay|last=Fernandez|first=Jay A.|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=13 March 2013|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref>}}
| runtime        = 95 minutes<!--Theatrical runtime: 95:28--><ref>{{cite web|title=''KILL LIST'' (18)|url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/kill-list-2011-1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006123213/http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/kill-list-2011-1|url-status=dead|archive-date=6 October 2014|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=2011-07-14|access-date=2013-05-17}}</ref>
| country        = United Kingdom
| language       = English
| budget         = $800,000<ref name=numbers>{{cite web|url=https://the-numbers.com/movie/Kill-List#tab=summary|title=Kill List|work=[[The Numbers (website)|The Numbers]]|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref>
| gross          = $462,206<ref name=numbers/>
 
}}
'''''Kill List''''' is a 2011 British [[psychological horror]] [[crime film]] directed by [[Ben Wheatley]], co-written and co-edited with [[Amy Jump]], and starring [[Neil Maskell]], [[MyAnna Buring]] and [[Michael Smiley]]. In the film, a British soldier joins an old friend in working as [[Contract killing|contract killers]]. His disturbed past surfaces as he spins out of control during jobs and ominous employers raise the stakes.

== Plot ==
Jay and Gal are two former British soldiers turned [[hitman|hitmen]]. While Gal is laid-back, Jay is still reeling from a disastrous mission in [[Kyiv]]. Despite his wife Shel's urgings, Jay has not obtained full employment, to the point where they are financially broke.

Shel organizes a dinner party, which was joined by Gal and his girlfriend Fiona, a human resources manager. During the party, Gal reveals he has a new job for them, which Jay eventually accepts. Meanwhile, Fiona goes to the toilet, carves a symbol on the back of the bathroom mirror, and collects a tissue with Jay's blood. Jay and Gal meet the client, who has a list of three people he wants killed. The employer unexpectedly cuts Jay's hand and his own, so that the contract is effectively signed in blood.

Their first target, captioned as "''The Priest''", recognizes Jay and thanks him just before being killed. The second name on the list, "''The Librarian''", is an archivist who keeps a collection of horrific, sickening videos of an undisclosed nature. Jay is deeply disturbed by the videos and breaks down in tears. As the duo enter the archivist's home, an enraged Jay beats him senseless and tortures him into identifying the videos' creators. As Gal goes to raid the safe, the archivist thanks Jay, who proceeds to savagely beat him to death with a hammer. In the archivist's files, Gal finds a folder on himself and Jay, including details of their Kyiv mission. Although they do not recognize it, the files include the symbol that Fiona carved in Jay's mirror. 

Jay insists they kill the archivist's associates. Gal drives them to the location of the creators of the videos, where Jay brutally murders all of them. Gal informs Jay that, from the archivist's safe, he took enough money to cover the contract money. The pair decide to abandon the contract and return home. When his cut hand becomes infected, Jay visits his regular doctor, only to find he has been replaced by another man who will only give him cryptic advice.

Jay and Gal return to their client and offer to find replacements for the last hit. The client refuses and says that both hitmen and their families will be killed if they do not complete the contract. Shel takes their son Sam to the family's cottage for safekeeping while Jay and Gal go back to work.

Their final mark, "''The MP''", is a [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|Member of Parliament]] who lives in a mansion. While observing the house, the pair witness a strange ceremony in the woods that culminates in [[human sacrifice]]. Jay opens fire with an assault rifle, and the leader of the ceremony presents himself for Jay to execute. He kills the leader and several cultists before the remaining masked members chase the hitmen into an underground complex. They capture and disembowel Gal, forcing Jay to perform a mercy killing on him. Emerging from the tunnels, Jay flees to the family cottage and meets with Shel. When he goes outside, he finds their car tires have been slashed and lit torches have been placed around the nearby field. Jay attempts to locate their attackers, but he is knocked unconscious. Inside the cottage, Shel arms herself and shoots several invaders.

Jay awakens in the field surrounded by the cultists, who strip him and place a mask over his face. He is confronted by his last victim, "''The Hunchback''", a masked and cloaked person armed with a knife. After a brutal knife fight, Jay triumphs, only to discover that the Hunchback was his wife with Sam strapped to her back. Shel laughs as they both die. The cultists applaud and remove their masks, revealing Fiona, the client, and the man from the doctor's office amongst their numbers. Jay is then crowned by the cultists.

== Cast ==
{{castlist|
* [[Neil Maskell]] as Jay
* [[Michael Smiley]] as Gal
* [[MyAnna Buring]] as Shel
* [[Emma Fryer]] as Fiona
* Harry Simpson as Sam
* [[Struan Rodger]] as The Client
* [[Ben Crompton]] as Justin
* Robin Hill as Stuart
* Gareth Tunley as The Priest
* Mark Kempner as The Librarian
* James Nickerson as The [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|MP]]
* Robert Hill as High Priest
* [[Alice Lowe]] as Radio Reporter
* [[Steve Oram]] as Radio Reporter
}}

== Production ==
After making ''[[Down Terrace]]'', Wheatley wanted to use the lessons learned to make a horror film. The original treatment was a hybrid of the styles and themes of ''[[Get Carter]]'' and [[H. P. Lovecraft]] that was to have been shot in the [[Philippines]].<ref name=timeout/> Shooting took place over 18 days.<ref name=bloody/> Wheatley was influenced by [[Stanley Kubrick]] in that he sought to find imagery first, then wove the plot around it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indiewire.com/article/ben-wheatley-kill-list|title='Kill List' Director Ben Wheatley Talks About 'That' Ending and Why the Film's So Personal|last=Smith|first=Nigel M.|work=[[Indiewire]]|date=3 February 2012|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> In each scene, they shot one take using the script and then paraphrased and improvised. The actors also worked out back stories for their characters through improvisation.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/23858/sxsw-11-interview-kill-list-director-ben-wheatley/|title=SXSW '11: INTERVIEW: 'Kill List' Director Ben Wheatley|last=Harley|first=David|work=[[Bloody Disgusting]]|date=18 March 2011|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> The script was much more explicit in its themes and ideas, but Wheatley edited the film to form a more ambiguous and minimalist story.  By keeping allusions to those scenes, he wanted to give viewers enough information to form their own interpretation.<ref name=complex>{{cite web|url=http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/01/interview-kill-list-writer-director-ben-wheatley/page/view-all|title=Interview: "Kill List" Writer-Director Ben Wheatley Talks Ambiguous Horror, Sickening Audiences & Nightmare Imagery|last=Barone|first=Matt|work=Complex.com|date=9 January 2012|access-date=7 January 2015|archive-date=2 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402150324/http://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/01/interview-kill-list-writer-director-ben-wheatley/page/view-all|url-status=dead}}</ref> Wheatley dislikes exposition, so he decided to avoid it. Instead, he focused on his own fears: nightmares that he had as a child and domestic disharmony. Themes included suburban desolation, homogeneity, and showing hitmen as violent murderers.<ref name=timeout>{{cite news|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/ben-wheatley-british-cinemas-new-wunderkind-1|title=Ben Wheatley: British cinema's new wunderkind|last=Huddleston|first=Tom|work=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out London]]|access-date=28 December 2013|archive-date=6 June 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606080613/http://www.timeout.com/london/film/ben-wheatley-british-cinemas-new-wunderkind-1|url-status=dead}}</ref> Wheatley also wanted to highlight current events: unpopular wars, a recession, and erosion of the social contract.<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/aug/27/kill-list-ben-wheatley|title=Kill List: it's a war film, it's a horror film, it's complicated|last=Wise|first=Damon|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=26 August 2011|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref>

The film's story came partially from casting ideas, and Wheatley specifically wrote the part of Jay for Neil Maskell, with whom he'd worked previously on a TV series. Wheatley always had a plan for the ending and made sure the story was logically consistent, though he states that there are multiple possible interpretations and the cult itself remains scarier when its motives and background are shrouded in mystery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/interviews/832-kill-list-interview-with-director-ben-wheatley|title=Interview: Ben Wheatley, Director of KILL LIST|last=Contario|first=Martyn|work=[[Starburst (magazine)|Starburst]]|date=14 September 2011|access-date=28 December 2013|archive-date=31 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231001316/http://www.starburstmagazine.com/features/interviews/832-kill-list-interview-with-director-ben-wheatley|url-status=dead}}</ref> Wheatley states that cultists are a popular choice of antagonist because people are uneasy about the world and feel a lack of control and understanding; politicians and bankers who control their lives seem inscrutable.<ref name=bloody>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/interviews/26415/interview-tiff-11-kill-list-director-ben-wheatley/|title=[Interview] TIFF '11: 'Kill List' Director Ben Wheatley|work=[[Bloody Disgusting]]|date=21 September 2011|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> The cult's symbol was designed by Wheatley, who later recognised influence from ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]''. Wheatley was worried people might call him on its similarities, but he was instead surprised to find people comparing it to a symbol from ''[[Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]]'', with which he is unfamiliar.<ref name=guardian/> The film's most violent scene, the hammer murder, came about when Wheatley was surprised at the shocking violence in ''[[The Orphanage (2007 film)|The Orphanage]]'', which he had assumed would be a subtle art-house film.  Wheatley stated that this turn toward violent horror in ''The Orphanage'' made the rest of the film unpredictable; he wanted a similar unpredictability in his own film, so that viewers were never sure whether the film would be subtle or explicit.<ref name=complex/>

The song "It Could Have Been Better", used in the film, is performed by [[Joan Armatrading]]. It was written by Armatrading and [[Pam Nestor]] and is from the 1972 album ''[[Whatever's for Us]]''.<ref>http://www.soundtrack.net/movie/kill-list/ retrieved 15 February 2014</ref>

== Release ==
The film's North American premiere was 12 March 2011 at [[SXSW]] in [[Austin, Texas|Austin]].<ref name=premiere/> It was released to UK cinemas on 2 September 2011.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2011/aug/15/kill-list-exclusive-clip-video|title=Kill List: Watch an exclusive clip – video|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=15 August 2011|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> [[IFC Films]] brought the film to video on demand 4 January 2012, and it received a US theatrical release 3 February 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dreadcentral.com/news/48258/ifc-bringing-kill-list-theatres-january|title=IFC Bringing The Kill List to Pre-Theatrical VOD in January|last=Barton|first=Steve|work=[[Dread Central]]|date=25 October 2011|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> It was released on home video in the UK on 26 December 2011<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/27356/brilliant-kill-list-gets-christmas-release-in-uk/|title=Brilliant 'Kill List' Gets Christmas Release in UK|last=Miska|first=Brad|work=[[Bloody Disgusting]]|date=25 November 2011|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> and 14 August 2012 in the US.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3155590/the-incredible-indie-thriller-kill-list-dated-for-home-video/|title=The Incredible Indie Thriller 'Kill List' Dated For Home Video!|last=Miska|first=Brad|work=[[Bloody Disgusting]]|date=24 July 2012|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref>

In 2025, a new 4K UHD version was released on [[Blu-ray]] in the US and Canada by [[Severin Films]].<ref name="BD.com 4K">{{cite web|url=https://www.blu-ray.com/Kill-List/95212/#Releases|title=Kill List - Blu-ray.com|publisher=Blu-ray.com|access-date=4 February 2026}}</ref>

== Reception ==
[[Rotten Tomatoes]], a [[review aggregator]], reports that 77% of 87 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review, and the average rating was 7.1/10; the consensus is: "''Kill List'' is an expertly executed slow-burn crime thriller that thrives on tension before morphing into visceral horror."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rottentomatoes.com/m/kill_list_2011/|title=Kill List|work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> [[Metacritic]] rated the film 67/100 based on 22 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://metacritic.com/movie/kill-list|title=Kill List|publisher=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref>

''[[Total Film]]'' rated the film 5/5 stars and said that as well as being a horror film it was "also a [[Mystery film|mystery movie]], a [[road movie]] and a grotesque riff on [[Arthurian legend]], and is influenced as much by [[John Cassavetes]], [[Alan Clarke]] and [[Ken Loach]] as ''[[Witchfinder General (film)|Witchfinder General]]'', ''[[The Wicker Man (1973 film)|The Wicker Man]]'' and ''[[Blood on Satan's Claw|The Blood on Satan's Claw]]''" before concluding that "[a]uthentic dialogue, pitch-perfect performances and seductively scuzzy images comprise a film funny and bleak, tender and cruel, serious and 'out-there'. British horror has rarely hit these heights since the mid-'70s."<ref>{{cite web |first=Jamie |last=Graham |url=http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/kill-list |title=Kill List Review |work=[[Total Film]] |date=21 July 2011 |access-date=21 July 2011 }} {{rating|5|5}}</ref> [[Peter Bradshaw]] reviewed the film for ''[[The Guardian]]'' and compared it to ''The Wicker Man'' and ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'', but he also said that ''Kill List'' "often looks like a film by [[Lynne Ramsay]] or even [[Lucrecia Martel]], composed in a dreamily unhurried arthouse-realist style that is concerned to capture texture, mood and moment", concluding that "[a]s far as British horror goes right now, ''Kill List'' is pretty much top of the range".<ref>{{cite news |first=Peter |last=Bradshaw |author-link=Peter Bradshaw |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/sep/01/kill-list-film-review |title=Kill List – review |work=The Guardian  |date=1 September 2011 |access-date=23 February 2012 }} {{rating|4|5}}</ref> [[Mark Kermode]] reviewed the DVD release for ''[[The Observer]]'' and stated that "[t]he end result is one of the most genuinely disturbing films of the year, a ruthless exercise in audience manipulation that will put even the most hardened genre fans through the emotional mangler"<ref>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Kermode |author-link=Mark Kermode |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/dec/18/kill-list-sex-zen-kermode |title=Mark Kermode's DVD round-up |work=The Observer |date=18 December 2011 |access-date=23 February 2012 }}</ref> and he later named it one of his favourite films of 2011.<ref>{{cite web |first=Mark |last=Kermode |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fmarkkermode%2F2012%2F01%2Feleven_from_eleven.html |title=Eleven from Eleven |work=Kermode Uncut |publisher=BBC |date=6 January 2012 |access-date=23 February 2012}}</ref> [[Philip French]] of ''[[The Observer]]'' called the film an "edgy, mysterious thriller that begins in one generic mode and jumps, or modulates, into another".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/sep/04/kill-list-review|title=Kill List – review|last=French|first=Philip|author-link=Philip French|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=3 September 2011|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> Tom Huddleston of ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out London]]'' rated the film 5/5 stars and compared it to the work of [[Shane Meadows]]. Huddleston called the film "nerve-shreddingly effective" and predicted the film would top rankings of British films.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.timeout.com/london/film/kill-list-2011|title=Kill List (18)|last=Huddleston|first=Tom|work=[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out London]]|date=30 August 2011|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref>

''Kill List'' also received positive reviews in America. John DeFore of ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' called it a "deeply edgy, gory crime film [that] maintains perfectly calibrated tension before dropping a bombshell that will be too much for some viewers".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/review/kill-list-film-review-169195|title=Kill List: Movie Review|last=DeFore|first=John|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=18 March 2011|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> Andrew Barker of ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' called it an "artful, sensitively acted thriller".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2011/film/reviews/kill-list-1117944825/|title=Review: 'Kill List'|work=[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]|date=15 March 2011|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] rated it 3/4 stars and called it "baffling and goofy, blood-soaked and not boring".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rogerebert.com/reviews/kill-list-2012|title=Kill List|last=Ebert|first=Roger|author-link=Roger Ebert|work=RogerEbert.com|date=14 March 2012|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> David Harley of [[Bloody Disgusting]] rated it 4/5 stars and called it "an atmospheric delight, boasting incredibly intense performances by Maskell and Smiley, and a doozy of an ending that will unhinge even the most hardened of genre fans".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/film/114294/kill-list-2/?tab=bd-review|title=Kill List (limited)|last=Harley|first=David|work=[[Bloody Disgusting]]|date=15 March 2011|access-date=28 December 2013|archive-date=31 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000150/http://bloody-disgusting.com/film/114294/kill-list-2/?tab=bd-review|url-status=dead}}</ref> Writing for [[Dread Central]], Jason Jenkins rated the film 4.5/5 stars and placed the film on his personal top ten list of the year,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dreadcentral.com/reviews/kill-list-blu-ray-dvd|title=Kill List (Blu-ray / DVD)|last=Jenkins|first=Jason|work=[[Dread Central]]|date=16 August 2012|access-date=28 December 2013|archive-date=31 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231001551/http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/kill-list-blu-ray-dvd|url-status=dead}}</ref> while Gareth Jones rated it 3.5/5 stars and called it "an impeccably crafted thriller" that is frustrating for its lack of answers.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dreadcentral.com/reviews/kill-list-uk-blu-ray|title=Kill List (UK Blu-Ray)|last=Jones|first=Gareth|work=[[Dread Central]]|date=20 December 2011|access-date=28 December 2013|archive-date=30 December 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131230234931/http://www.dreadcentral.com/reviews/kill-list-uk-blu-ray|url-status=dead}}</ref> Jeannette Catsoulis of ''[[The New York Times]]'' called the plot "undercooked and a little baffling" but wrote, "[W]hen the plot doglegs into insanity, and the characters follow suit, this brutal fever dream refuses to fall apart".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/03/movies/kill-list-is-ben-wheatleys-second-feature-film.html?ref=movies&_r=0|title=A Hit Man Finds Himself Stalked by Evil|last=Catsoulis|first=Jeannette|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=2 February 2012|access-date=3 June 2014}}</ref>

Owen Gleiberman of ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]'' rated it C and negatively compared it to its influences.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/ew/article/0,,20570559,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120219180631/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20570559,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=19 February 2012|title=Kill List (2012)|last=Gleiberman|first=Owen|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|date=21 February 2012|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref> Scott Tobias of [[NPR]] compared it to ''[[Lost (2004 TV series)|Lost]]''{{'s}} tendency to set up mysteries and leave them unexplained.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2012/02/02/144620067/cult-horror-plus-some-hatred-on-the-homefront|title=Cult Horror, Plus Some Hatred on the Homefront|last=Tobias|first=Scott|publisher=[[NPR]]|date=2 February 2012|access-date=28 December 2013}}</ref>

In 2015, the film was included in ''The Guardian''{{'}}s top 50 films of the demi-decade.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/jan/05/top-50-films-of-the-demi-decade-peter-bradshaw|title=Peter Bradshaw's top 50 films of the demi-decade|last=Bradshaw|first=Peter|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=5 January 2015|access-date=29 April 2015}}</ref>

[[The A.V. Club]] listed it number 18 in their 25 Best Horror Movies Since The Year 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://avclub.com/article/25-best-horror-movies-2000-227068|title=The 25 best horror movies since 2000|first=Nathan|last=Rabin|website=Avclub.com|access-date=19 October 2017}}</ref>

==Awards==
''Kill List'' received a number of nominations in the [[British Independent Film Awards 2011|2011 British Independent Film Awards]] and went on to win one:<ref>{{cite web |author=krkail |url=http://www.ifcfilms.com/inside-ifc-films/2011-british-independent-film-awards-for-kill-list-weekend-albatross-and-pina |title=2011 British Independent Film Awards for KILL LIST, WEEKEND, ALBATROSS and PINA! |publisher=[[IFC Films]] |date=31 October 2011 |access-date=23 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130406192829/http://www.ifcfilms.com/inside-ifc-films/2011-british-independent-film-awards-for-kill-list-weekend-albatross-and-pina |archive-date=6 April 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

* Won: "[[BIFA Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]" for Michael Smiley
* Nominated: "Best Achievement in Production"
* Nominated: "[[BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a British Independent Film|Best Actor]]" for Neil Maskell
* Nominated: "[[BIFA Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a British Independent Film|Best Actress]]" for MyAnna Buring
* Nominated: "Best Director" for Ben Wheatley
* Nominated: "Best Screenplay" for Ben Wheatley and Amy Jump
* Nominated: "[[London Critics Circle Film Awards]]" for British Film of the Year
*Nominated: "[[London Critics Circle Film Awards]]" Supporting Actor of the Year for Michael Smiley<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1788391/awards|title=Kill List|access-date=19 October 2017|publisher=IMDb}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|1788391}}
* [https://www.blu-ray.com/Kill-List/95212 ''Kill List ''] at Blu-ray.com
* {{mojo title|killlist}}
* {{rotten-tomatoes|kill_list_2011}}
* {{Metacritic film}}

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{{Empire Award for Best Horror}}

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