Kill Your Friends
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Sombre, breathless, measured comedy / crime, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →A&R man Steven Stelfox is slashing and burning his way through the music business, a world where 'no one knows anything' and where careers are made and broken by chance and the fickle tastes of the general public. Fuelled by greed, ambition and inhuman quantities of drugs, Stelfox lives the dream, as he searches for his next hit record.
Our read · Kill Your Friends (2015) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive comedy · crime · thriller entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Kill Your Friends
What watching it is actually like.
“You want vicious nineties music-biz satire soaked in cocaine and contempt.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if misogynist industry slime and coke-fueled cruelty will sour you.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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