Kill Your Friends (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Kill Your Friends |
| Original title | Kill Your Friends |
| Country of production | United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Owen Harris |
| script | John Niven |
| production |
Gregor Cameron , Will Clarke |
| music | Junkie XL |
| camera | Gustav Danielsson |
| cut | Bill Smedley |
| occupation | |
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Kill Your Friends is a thriller by Owen Harris based on a novel by John Niven and premiered on August 5, 2015 as the opening film of the Fantasy Film Festival . The film was released in Germany on March 18, 2016 directly on DVD and Blu-ray.
action
In 1997 the UK music industry was at its peak and the rise of Britpop bands like Blur , Oasis and The Verve was in full swing. In London, 27-year-old A&R manager Steven Stelfox is trying to ride this wave and find the next great talent, but the music business also has its downsides. With a lot of passion, but also pumped full of drugs, Steven wants to fill the coffers of his music label, but also advance his own career. Its seemingly unstoppable rise is slowed, however, when Britpop passes its zenith and the whole music industry changes. Steven, who is under great pressure to succeed, has to murder a colleague in order to stay in business, and soon a bloody trail adorns his career ladder.
production
On February 12, 2014, it was announced that Nicholas Hoult would take on the role of A&R manager Steven Stelfox. On March 3, 2014, it was announced that Jim Piddock is taking over the role of his boss Derek Sommers, who is the music label's managing director.
Filming began in London on March 10, 2014 and ended five weeks later. The film was shot at Pinewood Studios and in Greater London .
reception
The film was rated positively by 23 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics (out of a total of 60 critics as of July 24, 2019). Benjamin Lee of The Guardian thinks the film title is poorly implemented because there are no friends in the film and the focus on bad people who do bad things is just repeated too often in the film. The film tries too hard to be shocking and also suffers from bad cast. So Hoult seems too young for his role.
Web links
- Kill Your Friends in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Kill Your Friends . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Frederike Dellert in conversation with Patrick Wellinski: Fantasy Filmfest: 'Nothing is cut with us'. Frederike Dellert in conversation with Patrick Wellinski In: Deutschland Radio Kultur, 1st August 2015.
- ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database, accessed March 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Nicholas Hoult to star in John Niven's Kill Your Friends Niven's adaptation of his own book is directed by Owen Harris In: digitalspy.com, February 12, 2014.
- ↑ Kill Your Friends In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 24, 2019.
- ↑ Benjamin Lee: Kill Your Friends review - Nicholas Hoult is a poor man's Patrick Bateman in tiresome comedy In: The Guardian, September 12, 2015.