They Will Kill You Review: Kirill Sokolov’s Action Horror Is a Bloody Blast
A woman answers a cryptic ad for a housekeeping job at a luxurious yet foreboding New York City high-rise. Upon arrival, she discovers residents have vanished without a trace for decades, fuelling whispers of a satanic cult lurking in the shadows.
Release date: 27 March 2026
Director Kirill Sokolov
Cinematography Isaac Bauman
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Rich people are evil. Sometimes, they are literally diabolical.
Kirill Sokolov made a name for himself with Why Don’t You Just Die?, a film that proved his gift for tight, bloody action sequences. He confined his characters to a single apartment and let the violence unfold with a chaotic, darkly comedic energy. That same instinct drives his latest feature, but this time, he has a much larger playground.
They Will Kill You sees Sokolov expanding his canvas without losing his claustrophobic edge. The setting is The Virgil, an old-school Manhattan high-rise where the elite live behind doormen and double-locked doors. Zazie Beetz stars as Asia, a woman who takes a housekeeping job in the building for reasons that go far beyond a steady paycheck. She has skills that the residents do not anticipate. The director, working from a script co-written with Alex Litvak, uses this vertical maze of marble and steel to explore a familiar horror premise: the rich are not just out of touch; they are something far worse.
Sokolov surrounds Beetz with a collection of pasty creeps, including a heartbreaking turn from Patricia Arquette. The film carries echoes of recent satirical horror hits, but the director’s signature style—a frenetic pace paired with arterial spray-soaked humor—remains distinctly his own. This approach makes for a brutal, confined experience. The following review explores how Sokolov builds on his past work to deliver one of the most hard-core action horror films in recent memory.
They Will Kill You
A Horror Movie Review by Hope Madden
“When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.”
This quote from Renaissance artist Benvenuto Cellini opens Kirill Sokolov’s new blood drenched action horror, They Will Kill You.
No one is more pleased than I am at the popularity in contemporary cinema of the theme that rich people are evil. Better still is the more recent trend (a resurgence of a topic popular in the late Sixties and Seventies) that the rich are not just evil, they are literally diabolical.
Zazie Beetz is Asia. She takes a gig as a maid in old school, elite Manhattan high rise, The Virgil. Asia has ulterior motives. The Virgil has ulterior motives. It’s a home for Satanists and she is to be their sacrifice. But Asia has mad skills and the best hair in action hero history, so The Virgil’s residents don’t have such an easy time of it.
What follows is room after crawlspace after room of absolute carnage.
Sokolov proved his immense talent for confined, blood drenched action choreography with 2018’s Why Don’t You Just Die? If you enjoy They Will Kill You, I implore you to find the filmmaker’s previous gem. It is amazing.
His instinct for confined, bloody action is almost unmatched. (I’m not saying he’s better than Gareth Evans, but he’s in the conversation.) Sokolov’s frenetic pacing and arterial spray-soaked humor, though, is entirely his own.
Beetz carries the action effortlessly and Sokolov surrounds her with an outstanding array of pasty creeps. Patricia Arquette is almost heartbreakingly convincing as the help who believes she’s family. Sokolov, working from a script he co-wrote with Alex Litvak, points to the racism that keeps the elite breathing rarified air. But almost all his jabs at our social woes are made visually.
They Will Kill You definitely bears a resemblance to last week’s Ready or Not 2: Here I Come. But this film is more hard-core, the stakes are higher, and the confined, goretastic action is superior.
What a time to be a horror fan!
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