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  "description": "When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs. — Benvenuto Cellini Movies like They Will Kill You are funny in that they're clearly about class warfare and position themselves, narratively, on the side of the downtrodden protagonist. Which is fair. Income inequality is an ever-widening chasm and there's a catharsis and appeal in that. I welcome it. But it's worth knowing how much money goes into making any given film and the motivations and constraints associated with the interests providing it. What happened in there? Rich people. Anyways, fuck rich people. Billionaires suck. Clearly, as you see here, they're a cavalcade of Satan-animated pig on a stick worshipping weirdos. They Will Kill You is rife with over the top violence. Not the horrifying realism of a Cronenberg film. This is more of the everyone is a highly pressurized balloon full of pink water and every severed limb hides a sprinkler variety. Good? Bad? Artistic choice. Zazie Beetz is a badass lead (she was a badass in Atlanta too) and Myha'la is excellent as her sister, Maria. Heather Graham is present to be repeatedly beheaded and Patricia Arquette is a fittingly absurd villain who ends the bloody mess wearing the demonic pig head as a helmet. The score matches this perfectly. Sparse synth music as needed, victorious tunes where appropriate. The camera work is excellent and bottling this up in a building makes it feel a bit like The Raid (though this has a lone eyeball navigating the ducts). Is this similar to Kill Bill ? Maybe. I don't know. I haven't watched it and don't you dare tell me what to do. The working class Asia butchers the rich, devil worshipping weirdos. She gets her sister back and makes the world better, one severed limb at a time.",
  "path": "/watching/movies/they-will-kill-you-2026",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-08T13:40:00Z",
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  "tags": [
    "horror",
    "action",
    "comedy"
  ],
  "title": "They Will Kill You"
}