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The sisterhood of nan Satanic cults reached its conclusion astatine SXSW pinch nan world premiere of They Will Kill You connected Tuesday night, closing retired nan show pinch an “eat nan rich” mentality.
Co-written and directed by Kirill Sokolov, pinch co-writer Alex Litvak, nan bloody action-packed thrill thrust follows a nosy taxable of sisters taking connected cults, which popped up complete nan past week successful Ready aliases Not 2: Here I Come, Forbidden Fruits and Seekers of Infinite Love.
In They Will Kill You, Asia Reaves (Zazie Beetz) takes a maid occupation astatine The Virgil, a 100-year aged flat building successful New York City, wherever nan elite person agelong called their home. But her existent motives for taking nan gig are soon revealed arsenic nan crap quickly hits nan fan.
After abandoning her younger sister Maria (Myha’la) and leaving her pinch their abusive begetter a decade before, Asia tracks down her long-lost related astatine nan building, which has a acheronian history of nan thief going missing.
It soon becomes clear that nan building’s tenants person nefarious plans for her, hunting her down to make an offering to Satan successful speech for immortality. But luckily, Asia came prepared pinch a container afloat of weapons and nan determination to prevention her sister.
The movie features an iconic ensemble cast, from Patricia Arquette‘s Irish building superintendent Lily to able tenants Kevin (Tom Felton) and Sharon (Heather Graham), each bringing a chopped unhinged capacity to nan onscreen cult successful this high-octane, adrenaline-pumping flick.
With nods to films of nan samurai and shoot-em-up genres, Beetz gives nan beingness capacity of a lifetime, wielding swords and firing guns astatine a building afloat of evil yuppies. And Sokolov spares nary humor rig passim nan film, pinch reddish spraying retired of each wound, and immoderate imaginative viscera that tests nan limits of its characters’ invincibility.
Meanwhile, Beetz and Myha’la battalion an affectional punch arsenic good pinch their tragic communicative of estranged sisterhood, pushing nan brace to reconnect and make things right. Although Satan prefers blood, it turns retired nan astir impactful sacrifices travel from love.
Sokolov leaves it each connected nan level pinch his genre-driven return connected satanic cults, which is told pinch joke and bosom (literally), acknowledgment to its stellar cast, led by a brace of recently minted ‘Scream Queens’ who will person audiences rooting for them to destruct nan 1 percent.
Title: They Will Kill You
Festival: SXSW (Headliner)
Distributor: New Line Cinema/Nocturna/Warner Bros. Pictures
Release date: March 27, 2026
Director: Kirill Sokolov
Screenwriters: Kirill Sokolov, Alex Litvak
Cast: Zazie Beetz, Myha’La, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham, Patricia Arquette
Running time: 1 hr 34 mins
