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The Film That Most Scared Me as an Adult: Kill List

The Film That Most Scared Me as an Adult: Kill List

A frightening car journey returning from the cinema added extra terror to my experience of Ben Wheatley’s soul-shaking film

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Oct 18, 2023
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As newly appointed Film Editor at Fanfare, it’s time I set an example and answered my own prompt. I’m ducking out of the film-that-most-scared-me-as-a-child prompt because films didn’t really scare me as a child. For instance, I saw Jaws (1975) around the age of eight, and thought it was a straightforward adventu…

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