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KILLING KIND is a terrifically dark Brit thiller, released in the UK under its original (much more resonant) title MR IN-BETWEEN, where it got some rave reviews, particularly from the more “intelligent” press. Directed by Atom Egoyan’s longtime cinematographer Paul Sarossy, it’s a highly ambitious journey into the mind of an antihero Jon (superbly played by Andrew Howard), who kills and maims for a living, in the employment of the malevolent Tattooed Man. KILLING KIND doesn’t pull its punches, and maintains its darkly disturbing tone right up until the end, which has to be one of the most uncompromisingly shocking endings in recent years. But it is also a love story of sorts, and is punctuated by the most bizarre black humour, which at times gives it a heightened style of almost David Lynchian proportions (particularly in scenes with David Calder’s Tattooed Man and his unnerving friends). It also reminds me of the best of those 70s films, which dared NOT to have the predictable happy endings that are now the Hollywood norm. For this alone, Sarossy should be highly commended. There really isn’t anything else out there like this right now.
The Killing Kind