They will kill you is a thriller-horror drama following Asia Reaves, who infiltrated an exclusive Manhattan high-rise called The Virgil to rescue her estranged sister, Maria. She discovers the building is run by a wealthy satanic cult that uses human sacrifice to achieve immortality.
The story begins with a frantic, rainy prologue where young Asia Reaves shoots her abusive father in self-defense at a gas station. Asia is sent to prison and is separated from her younger sister, Maria who is left in their father’s custody.
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Ten years later, a vengeful Asia secured a job as a live-in maid at The Virgil, an opulent and secretive New York City apartment building. Once inside, she realizes the building has a sinister history of mysterious disappearance. On her very first night, she is attacked in her quarters by masked, hooded residents but fights them off with an arsenal of weapons she smuggled in.
Asia confronts the building’s superintendent, Lilith Woodhouse and demands to see Maria. She soon learns that Maria also works as a maid in the complex and has become entangled with the building’s inhabitants. It is revealed that the Virgil operates as a temple to Satan. The wealthy residents maintain their youth and immortality through an annual pact involving human sacrifice.
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As the night spirals into a hyper-violent, blood-soaked battle royals, Asia slices and shoots her way through floor after floor of the cult’s deadly followers. She discovers that Maria cannot simply leave, as she was designated to be the centerpiece sacrifice for the night’s dark ritual.
The ritual involves a severed pig’s skin upon which the names of the cult’s immortal members are inscribed. During the climax, when Maria is expected to sacrifice Asia to save herself and claim mortality, Maria subverts the ritual. Instead of killing her sister, Maria sacrifices herself to destroy the cult’s pact.
Asia burns the pig’s head, shattering the group’s immortality.
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She then fights her way out of the high-rise, carrying her sister’s body. Outside, she meets up with her getaway contact. When she checks the skin of the pig head used in the ritual, Asia is stunned to find that Maria slithered the names, sacrificing herself but making Asia immortal in the process. The sisters finally reunite and drive off together in the morning.
Directed by: Kirill Sokolov
Cast: Zazie BeetZ, Myha’la, Paterson Joseph, Tom Felton, Heather Graham
Running time: 94 minutes
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