Kill It and Leave This Town

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Kill It and Leave This Town

2020

1h 28m

Horror

Animation

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Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, a man hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are still alive.

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Anna Smith

Deadline Hollywood Daily

Feb 9, 2021

If Kill It and Leave This Town starts to feel a little self-indulgent, it's forgivably so. While this is an openly personal piece of work, many of its themes have a universal resonance: memories, loss, pain, aging and the general absurdity of life.

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William Repass

Slant Magazine

Dec 1, 2020

3/4

Mariusz Wilczyński's animation style strikes an unlikely balance between the childlike and the proficient.

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Maya Phillips

New York Times

Nov 26, 2020

The grim film feels excavated from the subconscious: The coarse illustration style, with its frazzled, stray lines, emphasizes the bleakness of the images.

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Carson Timar

Filmotomy

Feb 12, 2022

With some of the most captivating visuals of any film this year, a gritty yet undoubtedly cool style, and thematic weight; the film truly stands out as one of the best animated films of 2020 so far.

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Ayeen Forootan

In Review Online

Jun 5, 2021

[That] Kill It and Leave This Town was first conceived as a short film is the most obvious issue and predictive of the ways in which it wears itself thin during its 88 minutes.

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Andrew Stover

Film Inquiry

Dec 10, 2020

Mariusz Wilczynski's Kill It and Leave This Town is art in its purest form; sincere, evocative, and intimate.

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Logan D

@Greynomad38 Sep 9, 2026

A man flees reality, finding refuge within a land of memories. A deeply personal work that some regard as indulgent but I found the nightmarish imagery and surrealistic atmosphere to be engaging. Certainly one of the dream logic films I tend to find palatable. Loved the charcoal lined images, a rough handmade style, giving weight to a thematically deep tale which does meander some. This isn't a story but an experience.

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Oaklee D

@ODie63 May 24, 2025

I loved the style of animation, plot wise it can be very abstract.

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Synopsis

Fleeing from despair after losing those dearest to him, a man hides in a safe land of memories, where time stands still and all those dear to him are still alive.

Director: Mariusz Wilczyński
Producer: Agnieszka Scibior, Ewa Puszczyńska
Screenwriter: Agnieszka Scibior
Production Co: Extreme Emotions, Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej, Instytut im. Adama Mickiewicza, Nolabel, Letko, EC1 Lódz - Miasto Kultury, Gigant Films, Filmoteka Narodowa - Instytut Audiowizualny, DI Factory, Bombonierka
Genre: Horror, Animation
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 28m

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