Midnight Pals: Kill List (Patreon)

Ben Wheatley: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of the sad hit man
Wheatley: a mind-bending tale of psychological horror with a big twist!
Wheatley: the twist is that its folk horror
Wheatley: for the last 20 minutes

Wheatley: so there’s this creepy cult
Stephen King: sounds scary!
Wheatley: and it’s out in the boonies
Ramsey Campbell: yes!
Wheatley: in England
Campbell: YES!

Wheatley: hope you’re all ready for some English horror
Barker: does it take place in a field?
Poe: Clive
Wheatley: NO
Wheatley: not
Wheatley: not mostly
Wheatley:
Wheatley: I mean, there is a field involved
Barker: ah haha

Wheatley: it’s not the same field!
Wheatley: I have range!
Wheatley: this move’s gonna be totally different!
Barker: oh yeah? Do tell
Wheatley: this time, nothing happens for the first hour
Barker:
Barker: what, nothing happens?
Wheatley: well, I mean a dog gets killed
Koontz: what

Wheatley: I know you’re all excited for the folk horror
Wheatley: but first
Wheatley: an hour and a half of this doughy whiner’s marriage problems

King: so I’d like to know more about this cult
Wheatley: no
King:
King: is it a pagan cult or
Wheatley: not saying
King:
King: maybe a weird harvest-
Wheatley: not saying

King: so is the cult connected with anything that happened earlier in the movie
Wheatley: not saying
King:
Lovecraft:
Poe:
Barker:
Koontz:
King: what about
Wheatley: not saying

Wheatley: this is called the horror of the ambiguous
Wheatley: you wouldn’t get it, it’s an English thing
Wheatley: very English
Koontz: I don’t like when the dog dies

Wheatley: well if it makes you feel any better, a cat dies too
Koontz:
Koontz: why
Koontz: why would that make me feel better
Wheatley: well cuz
Wheatley: cuz
Wheatley:
Wheatley: I don’t know why I said that
Lovecraft: I-i don’t like when the cat dies