US EditionZazie Beetz, Heather Graham Slay in Bloody, Bonkers 'They Will Kill You'
Zazie Beetz stars as Asia Reaves battling a wealthy Satanic cult in a 100-year-old NYC building; the film premiered at SXSW and features intense action and gore.
- On Tuesday, director Kirill Sokolov's horror-comedy "They Will Kill You" held its world premiere at SXSW, starring Zazie Beetz as a woman infiltrating a New York City hotel cult to rescue her estranged sister.
- Seeking to rescue her sister Maria , Asia infiltrates The Virgil, a luxury hotel where residents are Satanists who sacrifice innocents for immortality, forcing a deadly confrontation.
- Featuring Patricia Arquette, Heather Graham, and Tom Felton, the film blends "eat the rich" themes with samurai-inspired combat and includes an animatronic eye prop named Iris that became a festival highlight.
- Warner Bros. will release the film on March 27, 2026, following the enthusiastic Austin premiere where audiences celebrated Sokolov's unique approach to the horror-comedy genre.
- Sokolov, the filmmaker behind 2021's "No Looking Back," sought to avoid camp clichés while honoring genre influences, describing Beetz as a "warrior goddess" and "the coolest, bloody samurai.
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‘They Will Kill You’ Review: Zazie Beetz Saves Sister From Wealthy Satanic Cult In Adrenaline-Pumping Thrill Ride
The sisterhood of the Satanic cults reached its conclusion at SXSW with the world premiere of They Will Kill You on Tuesday night, closing out the festival with an “eat the rich” mentality. Co-written and directed by Kirill Sokolov, with co-writer Alex Litvak, the bloody action-packed thrill ride follows a fun theme of sisters taking on cults, which popped up over the past week in Ready or Not 2: Here I Come, Forbidden Fruits and Seekers of In…
‘They Will Kill You’ SXSW Review – Zazie Beetz Slaughters Satanists in Blood-Soaked Action Horror
The splatsick mania of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2 courses through the veins of Kirill Sokolov’s high-octane action horror comedy They Will Kill You. Instead of a hapless hero, though, They Will Kill You unleashes an unstoppable force of nature in Zazie Beetz, who takes Sokolov’s maximalist stunt-heavy romp by the throat and never lets go. Sokolov, who co-wrote the screenplay with Alex Litvak (Predators), skips formalities with a rushed but grim int…
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