Signature Entertainment is gearing up for tomorrow’s theatrical release for the bombastic Boy Kills World. Today the team has dropped a brand new clip from the film which is directed by Moritz Mohr.
Skarsgård stars as Boy, a deaf-mute with a vivid imagination, driven by his inner voice, one which he co-opted from his favourite childhood video game. He avows revenge after his family is murdered by Hilda Van Der Koy, the deranged matriarch of a corrupt post-apocalyptic dynasty that left the boy orphaned, deafened, and voiceless. Boy trains with a mysterious shaman to become an instrument of death and is set loose on the eve of the annual culling of dissidents. Bedlam ensues as Boy commits bloody martial arts mayhem, inciting a wrath of carnage and bloodletting. As he tries to get his bearings in this delirious realm, Boy soon falls in with a desperate resistance group, all the while bickering with the apparent ghost of his rebellious little sister.
In our four-star review Matt says Boy Kills World is “a thoroughly enjoyable if not empty experience in the cinema. An entertaining cast and some truly intense fights littered throughout and its tongue firmly in its cheek, its entire premise is to mindlessly entertain which it delivers with unapologetic pride.”
Watch the clip in full in the player below:
Starring Bill Skarsgård (It), Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day), Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Brett Gelman (Stranger Things), Isaiah Mustafa (It: Chapter Two), Yayan Ruhian (The Raid), Nicholas and Cameron Crovetti (The Boys), Quinn Copeland (Punky Brewster), Andrew Koji (Bullet Train), Sharlto Copley (District 9), Famke Janssen (X-Men) and H. Jon Benjamin (Archer, Bob’s Burgers) as the voice of ‘Boy’, Boy Kills World is directed by Moritz Mohr from a screenplay by Arend Remmers (Oderbruch) and Tyler Burton Smith (Alan Wake II) and from a screen story by Mohr and Remmers.
Sam Raimi produces alongside Zainab Azizi, Roy Lee, Wayne Fitzjohn, Simon Swart, Alex Lebovici, Stuart Manashil and Dan Kagan for US outfits Raimi Productions, Vertigo Entertainment, Hammerstone Studios and U.S. and South Africa-based Nthibah Pictures. Executive Producers include Sipho Nkosi, Mxolisi Mgojo, Humphrey Mathe, Bill Skarsgård, Reza Brojerdi, Christian Mercuri, Moritz Mohr and Andrew Childs.
Boy Kills World is only in UK and Irish cinemas April 26. Distributed by Signature Entertainment.
