British cinema has an exciting new voice, and it belongs to director Ben Wheatley. After making his directorial debut with the quietly mental Down Terrace in 2009, Wheatley goes all out with Kill List.

You’re never quite sure what’s going on. A husband and wife fight. Their houseguest scratches a strange insignia in the back of their bathroom mirror. The husband goes out with his buddy and kills somebody. His son finds a dead animal in the garden…

Delirious, violent as hell, more confusing than a Japanese thriller without subtitles, Kill List had us scratching our heads and contorting ourselves in terror. The hammer. Dear God, the hammer…