THEY WILL KILL YOU

Here's the honest answer up front: this one isn't worth your time or your conscience. THEY WILL KILL YOU has a premise with a flicker of heart — a woman risking everything to rescue the sister she lost a decade ago, and two heroines who protect one another and stand against evil. Satan and his cult are unmistakably the villains.

But the movie drowns whatever it has going for it. The violence is extreme, bloody, and unpleasant — decapitations, blasted heads, gruesome reattachments played for spectacle. There are at least 56 obscenities. And the tone lurches into the absurd, right down to the Devil possessing a pig's head. It's excessive, unacceptable, and, frankly, too stupid to defend.

So skip it. There's no version of this you can recommend to your family, and nothing here rewards the older viewer willing to endure it either.

Ten years ago, Asia Reeves and her younger sister Maria fled an abusive father — and were separated in a night that changed everything. Now Asia, trained in martial arts, poses as a new maid to infiltrate The Vigil, an exclusive New York high-rise where she believes Maria is being held.

The building's wealthy residents are not what they seem. When Asia is attacked her first night, she discovers the tenants belong to a Satanic cult that has bargained for immortality. Against a group that cannot die, she has to find her sister — and a way out.

Two stars, and that's generous. The setup isn't the problem: a lone fighter infiltrating a fortress of immortal cultists is a serviceable horror-action hook, and the early scenes establish it clearly enough.

The execution is where it collapses. The violence isn't just intense, it's relentless and gruesome to the point of numbness — reattaching heads, hopping eyeballs, blood sprays staged for shock rather than tension. The action grows absurd, and the film keeps undercutting itself with silliness, most memorably the Devil possessing a pig's head. The result is a movie that can't decide whether it wants to horrify you or make you laugh, and manages neither. It's excessive and, in the end, too stupid to work.

There's a faint Christian, redemptive thread buried in here. A woman enters a building ruled by a Satanic cult to save her long-lost sister, the villains are plainly evil, and by the end a sacrifice solves the story's central problem and tricks the Devil. The two heroines do genuinely redemptive things to protect each other. It's there — but it's undeveloped, and the film never builds anything meaningful on it.

What overwhelms it is everything else. The occult Satanic imagery is strong, not incidental: Satan possesses both a pig's head and a woman's body, and the cult's immortality is purchased with human sacrifice. That's the engine of the whole plot, and there's no keeping it at arm's length.

The film also carries a pointed political streak. The cultists are all rich people, and the movie leans into a strong anti-capitalist, implied-communist attitude — wealth itself treated as the mark of evil. It's a distracting frame that flattens the characters into a message.

Beneath it runs a real longing the movie can't satisfy: the hope that evil and death can be beaten, that the Devil can be outmatched. Scripture answers that hope, but not with a clever sacrifice that fools the enemy — with the one true sacrifice already made. "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil" (1 John 3:8).

A whisper of a good idea — a rescue, a sacrifice, evil named as evil — is buried under extreme gore, dozens of obscenities, and moments too silly to take seriously. There's nothing here worth the cost. Our verdict stands: skip it. For a movie night that actually feeds your family, start with our latest family-friendly picks.