The sisterhood of the Satanic cults reached its conclusion at SXSW with the world premiere of They Will Kill You on Tuesday evening, closing out the competition with an “eat the wealthy” mentality.
Co-written and directed by Kirill Sokolov, with co-writer Alex Litvak, the bloody action-packed thrill journey follows a enjoyable theme of sisters taking up cults, which popped up over the previous week in Prepared or Not 2: Right here I Come, Forbidden Fruits and Seekers of Infinite Love.
In They Will Kill You, Asia Reaves (Zazie Beetz) takes a maid job at The Virgil, a 100-year outdated residence constructing in New York Metropolis, the place the elite have lengthy known as their dwelling. However her true motives for taking the gig are quickly revealed because the shit shortly hits the fan.
After abandoning her youthful sister Maria (Myha’la) and leaving her with their abusive father a decade earlier than, Asia tracks down her long-lost sibling on the constructing, which has a darkish historical past of the assistance going lacking.
It quickly turns into clear that the constructing’s tenants have nefarious plans for her, searching her all the way down to make an providing to Devil in alternate for immortality. However fortunately, Asia got here ready with a bag stuffed with weapons and the dedication to avoid wasting her sister.
The film options an iconic ensemble forged, from Patricia Arquette‘s Irish constructing superintendent Lily to rich tenants Kevin (Tom Felton) and Sharon (Heather Graham), every bringing a definite unhinged efficiency to the onscreen cult on this high-octane, adrenaline-pumping flick.
With nods to movies of the samurai and shoot-em-up genres, Beetz provides the bodily efficiency of a lifetime, wielding swords and firing weapons at a constructing stuffed with evil yuppies. And Sokolov spares no blood rig all through the movie, with pink spraying out of each wound, and a few artistic viscera that assessments the bounds of its characters’ invincibility.
In the meantime, Beetz and Myha’la pack an emotional punch as properly with their tragic story of estranged sisterhood, pushing the pair to reconnect and make issues proper. Though Devil prefers blood, it seems essentially the most impactful sacrifices come from love.
Sokolov leaves all of it on the ground along with his genre-driven tackle satanic cults, which is informed with humor and coronary heart (actually), because of its stellar forged, led by a pair of newly minted ‘Scream Queens’ who may have audiences rooting for them to remove the one %.
Title: They Will Kill You
Pageant: SXSW (Headliner)
Distributor: New Line Cinema/Nocturna/Warner Bros. Footage
Launch date: March 27, 2026
Director: Kirill Sokolov
Screenwriters: Kirill Sokolov, Alex Litvak
Solid: Zazie Beetz, Myha’La, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, Patricia Arquette
Working time: 1 hr 34 minutes
