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Kill List
Why this pick
Wheatley’s earlier descent into menace shares the grimy English texture, abrasive soundscape, folk-horror undertow and steadily destabilising logic of A Field in England.
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MOVIE2013 1h 30m GBR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
During a battle of the English Civil War, an alchemist's assistant named Whitehead flees from the strict Commander Trower. Whitehead is saved by a rough soldier named Cutler, who kills Trower before he can apprehend Whitehead. Whitehead then meets two army deserters, the alcoholic Jacob and the witless Friend. The four leave the battleground in search of a promised ale house that Cutler knows of. Cutler instead leads them to a field encircled by mushrooms, where he cooks the mushrooms and forces the others to eat, to make them more obedient; save for Whitehead. There, they haul the Irishman O'Neill seemingly out of the ground from a wooden pike buried in the ground. O'Neill is a rival alchemist for whom Cutler works; and who stole documents from Whitehead's master. He quickly asserts authority over the group and tells them of a treasure hidden somewhere in a nearby field.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Julian Barratt
Trower
Peter Ferdinando
Jacob
Richard Glover
Friend
Ryan Pope
Cutler
Reece Shearsmith
Whitehead
Michael Smiley
O'Neil
Sara Dee
The Field (voice)