Stars Zazie Beetz and Patricia Arquette are no strangers to horror, throwing themselves fully into the stunts and action of Kirill Sokolov‘s blood-soaked They Will Kill You.
Beetz stars as Asia, a young woman who must survive the night at the Virgil, a demonic cult’s mysterious and twisted death-trap of a Manhattan high-rise, before becoming their next offering. Arquette stars opposite as Lily, the Virgil’s disarming but ruthless manager.
They Will Kill You unleashes its Satanic splatstick chaos in theaters on March 27, and Bloody Disgusting caught up with the pair at SXSW to discuss Beetz’s impressive stunt work and what keeps both her and Arquette coming back to the genre.
“I love horror, and I’ve always loved horror movies. Yes, because you can examine this darker aspect of certain characters, but also? It sort of immediately breaks all of the rules of film or life. It can go places that our logic or daily life cannot go, and so it opens up the world for the filmmaker, and I, as an audience member, don’t know where I’m going,” Arquette, who started her career with A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, tells us.
The actors weigh in on what makes horror so enduring, while Beetz details her extensive training to prepare for the stunts, in the video below.
The gory horror movie has been rated “R” for “strong bloody violence, gore, language, and brief sexual content/nudity.”
Kirill Sokolov (Why Don’t You Just Die!) directs from a script co-written with Alex Litvak. The film also stars Myha’la (Bodies Bodies Bodies), Heather Graham, and Tom Felton.
I wrote in my SXSW review, “Sokolov’s striking composition, dedication to carnage-fueled stunts and fight choreography, and an all-too-game cast anchored by a dedicated and fierce Zazie Beetz prevent this slight but energetic crowd-pleaser from careening off the rails.”
