Kill Your Lover

Its horror lies in how a certain type of relationship, although so easy to fall into and seek comfort, can also effortlessly create monsters out of any of us.

Is the metaphor obvious? Yes. Would it have made a better short? Also yes. Is it still an impressively gnarly little Crongenbergian indie two-hander? You bet.

By leaning heavily into character and the sometimes claustrophobic nature of spiraling relationships, Kill Your Lover offers an exciting and emotional bit of genre filmmaking.

For all its fantastical traits, Kill Your Lover is an achingly real love story. Come for the smell of toasted appendages, but stay for an openly wounded take on an experience we all probably know too well.

At its worst, Kill Your Lover is a poorly executed pseudo-horror that feels more like something a couple of teenagers threw together one weekend.


Writers/directors Alix Austin and Keir Siewert aren't exactly dealing with subtext here.

Kill Your Lover has a few missteps in its overall production, but it mostly makes up for these flaws by tactfully embracing a classic film trope.

Filmmakers Alix Austin and Keir Siewert give us a unique body horror breakup movie that never shies away from messy, intimate, or gross parts of this doomed relationship. It's an intriguing but brutal look at toxic relationships and how they burn us.

Kill Your Lover is a tense relationship drama oozing from every orifice with gnarly body horror.

Kill Your Lover is a well-made, claustrophobic horror film if you can stomach everything – and things get particularly horrific towards the final act.