Sam Raimi's New Action Thriller with Bill Skarsgård Just Dropped: Don't Miss It
Imagine Kill Bill as a mystery thriller set in a brutal post-apocalyptic world but all the carnage stays the same… Or better yet, just watch it yourself.
There’s something special about bloodbath movies: they’re really easy to mess up, making carnage the main character instead of the actual protagonist, but they’re also hauntingly captivating when done right. Quentin Tarantino ’s Kill Bill is often dubbed as the ultimate bloodbath action, but what if we replaced the Bride with the Boy and changed the modern world for a post-apocalyptic one? Would it still work?
Bill Skarsgård Goes on a Rampage
Don’t make surprised Pikachu faces, but there’s been an apocalypse and the world has changed. In this brutal new reality, a corrupt and powerful dynasty rules over the land, and its members like to toy with their subjects. Once, the matriarch kills an entire family and leaves a little boy deeply traumatized, mute, and deaf as a result.
Having lost everything, Boy — which is the only way we see him addressed — is found and trained for years by a mysterious shaman who turns him into an instrument of death and destruction. With the matriarch’s face engraved into his mind, Boy finishes his training and sets off on a quest to avenge and exterminate.
Boy Kills World Deserves a Chance
Boy Kills World is the debut directing work of Moritz Mohr under the supervision of The Evil Dead and Spider-Man producer Sam Raimi. Mohr only had a production budget of $18M and recovered just over $3M of it, but while the movie didn’t work miracles at the box office, it’s now out on digital and deserves a chance at redemption.
On Rotten Tomatoes, Boy Kills World proved once again that critics and viewers often like different things: with a middling 59% Tomatometer Score, the movie earned the endorsement of 72% of its audience. On IMDb, it has a 6.4/10 score, as well.
If you’re a fan of bloody carnage or simply want to see Bill Skarsgård wreak absolute havoc in a grief-induced rage of a professional killer, look no further than Boy Kills World. Some say it’s too bloodbath-y, but that’s the point of this wild action thriller.