KILL ME PLEASE
July 23, 2011 
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A euthanasia comedy from the team behind Man Bites Dog? Sign me up! With additional alumni from A Town Called Panic and Calvaire, this is one Belgian brain-basher you won’t want to miss.
As a means of diminishing the number of buy viagra fed ex violent suicides with traumatic results for those left behind, renegade Dr. Kruger has started an exclusive resort in the Swiss mountains for those wealthy enough to buy their way out of a miserable life. Kruger – clearly modelled on the late, controversial euthanizer Jack Kevorkian with a bit of The Hemlock Society’s Derek Humphry– receives bad press and death threats by the score but those in his care are happy to facilitate his pioneering work.
Their reasons for being at the clinic in the first place are disparate: a man who lost his wife in a poker game, a Canadian (Saul Rubinek) with a brain tumor, a depressed comedian (Benoit Poelvoorde, known to genre fans from his role the charismatic serial killer in Man Bites Dog), a singer who has lost her voice and many other sad-sacks and neurotics. Suicide seems to be a bit of an unconscious theme in this year’s programming, and while it’s certainly no laughing matter (just google ‘Kill Me Please’ and any laughter will be quickly silenced by the number of actual such pleas on online forums and message boards), Olias Barco’s pitch-black comedy works because of the misfit characters and their ability to – in Chapin-esque terms – “smile though your heart is breaking”. With stark black and white cinematography and compelling performances to bolster the uncomfortable, deadpan humour, Kill Me Please is a satire like no other.
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KILL ME PLEASE screens July 23 at 7:30pm and July 26at 5:10pm, both in the Salle JA DeSeve. More info on the film page HERE.
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, buying generic cialis mexico rx publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
