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Shades of early Tarantino, Edgar Wright and Sam Raimi abound in this violent, stylish and riotously entertaining slice of family life, Moscow style, described as "a splatterpunk action comedy drenched in gleefully dark Russian humor" (The Hollywood Reporter) and "an amazing first feature from a filmmaker to watch" (Screen Anarchy).
Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend's parents' apartment and kill her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) with a hammer to restore her honour. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey's attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don't quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable – not to mention ruthless – opponent than he anticipated… and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.
Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov presents a rousing tale of family, modern relationships and the dark places they can take you to when things turn sour. Featuring a soundtrack that veers between Ennio Morricone-esque western riffs and toe-tappingly catchy pop numbers, Why Don't You Just Die! delivers laughs, shocking twists and copious quantities of blood and gore, and establishes Sokolov as one of cinema's brightest rising stars.
Special Features
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
- Original lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles
- Brand new interview with author and critic Kim Newman, exploring Why Don't You Just Die! within the context of the long-standing tradition of single location cinema
- Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from rehearsals and the film set
- Four short films by Kirill Sokolov: Could Be Worse, The Outcome, The Flame and the award-winning Sisyphus is Happy (Best Director and Gold Frame awards, 2013 Unprecedented Cinema International Festival of Short Film)
- Theatrical trailer
- Kirill Sokolov's complete original storyboard for the film (BD-ROM content)
- Reversible sleeve featuring two choices of artwork
- Arrow Video
- 95 Mins Approx.
- 18
- 2.35:1
- Russian
- 1
- Arrow Video
- Kirill Solokov
- Aleksandr Kuznetsov
- Vitaliy Khaev
- Evgeniya Kregzhde
English
- 2018
- B
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Arrow Films
Shades of early Tarantino, Edgar Wright and Sam Raimi abound in this violent, stylish and riotously entertaining slice of family life, Moscow style, described as "a splatterpunk action comedy drenched in gleefully dark Russian humor" (The Hollywood Reporter) and "an amazing first feature from a filmmaker to watch" (Screen Anarchy).
Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) has just one objective: to gain entry to his girlfriend's parents' apartment and kill her father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev) with a hammer to restore her honour. But all is not as it initially seems, and Matvey's attempts to bludgeon the family patriarch to death don't quite go to plan as Andrey proves a more formidable – not to mention ruthless – opponent than he anticipated… and Matvey, for his part, proves stubbornly unwilling to die.
Making his feature debut, writer/director Kirill Sokolov presents a rousing tale of family, modern relationships and the dark places they can take you to when things turn sour. Featuring a soundtrack that veers between Ennio Morricone-esque western riffs and toe-tappingly catchy pop numbers, Why Don't You Just Die! delivers laughs, shocking twists and copious quantities of blood and gore, and establishes Sokolov as one of cinema's brightest rising stars.
Special Features
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
- Original lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles
- Brand new interview with author and critic Kim Newman, exploring Why Don't You Just Die! within the context of the long-standing tradition of single location cinema
- Exclusive behind-the-scenes footage from rehearsals and the film set
- Four short films by Kirill Sokolov: Could Be Worse, The Outcome, The Flame and the award-winning Sisyphus is Happy (Best Director and Gold Frame awards, 2013 Unprecedented Cinema International Festival of Short Film)
- Theatrical trailer
- Kirill Sokolov's complete original storyboard for the film (BD-ROM content)
- Reversible sleeve featuring two choices of artwork
- Arrow Video
- 95 Mins Approx.
- 18
- 2.35:1
- Russian
- 1
- Arrow Video
- Kirill Solokov
- Aleksandr Kuznetsov
- Vitaliy Khaev
- Evgeniya Kregzhde
English
- 2018
- B
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'Why Don't You Just Die!' isn't just cinema, it's blunt force drama par excellence!'
With grisly humour blacker than Stalin's heart, and the ghastly excesses of Rasputin's wrong-headed repertoire, the visually exciting, persistently playful, gallopingly gory, diabolically deadpan, audaciously blood-drenched thriller is a cordite-sharp breath of fresh despair, like 'Blood Simple' before it, 'Why Don't You Just Die!' has a relentless, glasspaper dry wit, a seismically sanguineous brutality, and a wickedly warped mystery at its immoral, crime-calcified core which maintains a murderously vice-like grip throughout. Fundamentally a terminally twisted immorality tale, wherein dangerous duplicity, unleavened greed, and old fashioned barbarism frequently confounds our young handsome hero's especially grievous undertaking. Ostensibly tasked by his vulpine, witheringly attractive, strong-willed girlfriend Olya (Evgeniya Kregzhde) to kill her brutal, slovenly cop father Andrey (Vitaliy Khaev), and not long after brave young Matvey (Aleksandr Kuznetsov) has fatefully struck his first heroic hammer blow of justice, the splendidly dynamic director Kirill Sokolov gorily unleashes a stomach-churning salvo of excruciating ultra-violence that reaches a bizarrely edifying apotheosis of savagely shot-gunning, ferociously flesh-filleting, boisterously bullet-shredded, bone-breaking brilliance, 'Why Don't You Just Die!' isn't just cinema, it's blunt force drama par excellence!'
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