{"id":21904,"date":"2014-10-08T23:09:40","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T03:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=21904"},"modified":"2016-08-14T23:14:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T03:14:03","slug":"kill-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/kill-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kill01\"<\/a>Much as I hate to admit it, \u201cSaw 2\u201d pretty much aced the concept of the strangers waking up in mysterious circumstances scenario that\u2019s become so prevalent in modern horror. Directors Chad Archibald, and Gabriel Carrer don\u2019t even seem to try with \u201cKill,\u201d which is just another variation on the premise from \u201cSaw 2,\u201d except \u201cKill\u201d is filled with so much more inconsistencies. Not to mention the cast is filled with terrible actors portraying obnoxious characters that literally do nothing but bicker and argue from the first moment they wake up in a mysterious house.<\/p>\n

A group of people wake up in a house that\u2019s been boarded up and barred down. They soon realize they\u2019re being terrorized by a mysterious entity watching them, and proclaims that in order to survive and make it home to their significant others, they have to kill each other. Nope, this isn\u2019t \u201cBattle Royale,\u201d although I\u2019d bet the parallels aren\u2019t a mistake. The surviving member of the group gets to go home. I think. Why are the victims awoken in white clothing? Who knows? What is the relevance of the connection that inevitably rises to the surface in the middle of the terror? I wasn\u2019t sure, and I immediately stopped trying to care. What do the tiki men signify? What\u2019s with all the imagery of knights and medieval drapery? And what are the TV\u2019s even for?<\/p>\n

Details and plot devices are brought up and abruptly rendered invalid moments later, and there\u2019s just no plot progression until the final twenty minutes. There are even stunning moments of sheer stupidity, like when one of the characters confirms one of the victims has a pulse, prompting another character to ask \u201cIs he alive?\u201d And you have to enjoy how the characters break free from the house while a character screams \u201cStop! This is someone\u2019s house!\u201d The production is pretty poor as well, with bad editing, and really dicey direction that never fulfills the intended illusion of claustrophobia and paranoia. One of the most distracting elements of \u201cKill\u201d that tore me out of the narrative was the bad sound.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if the rooms on the sets echoed, or if there was ambient sound dripping in to the movie set, but every piece of dialogue sounds canned. So much so that you could almost swear the movie was dubbed. There\u2019s a lot of really ambiguous plot elements brought up and featured with no real clarification, and truthfully I never cared to ponder what I\u2019d seen. I was just happy it ended. \u201cKill\u201d is terrible because it feels incomplete, rushed, and incredibly half hearted. Almost as if the directors just made points up as they went along. I\u2019m also assuming the directors thought they\u2019d lay the ground work for a follow up. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any kind of material available for another droning ninety minutes of pointless violence and a script that\u2019s one note and with zero narrative.<\/p>\n