Kill Me Later is a 2001 film directed by Dana Lustig and starring Selma Blair, Max Beesley, Brendan Fehr, Keegan Connor Tracy and Lochlyn Munro.

Kill Me Later
Directed byDana Lustig
Written byDana Lustig
Annette Goliti Gutierrez
Produced byDana Lustig
Ram Bergman
Carole Curb Nemoy
StarringSelma Blair
Max Beesley
Brendan Fehr
Keegan Connor Tracy
Lochlyn Munro
CinematographyDavid Ferrara
Edited byGabriel Wrye
Music byTal Bergman
Release date
  • September 14, 2001 (2001-09-14)
Running time
89 minutes
CountryUnited States

Synopsis

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Blair plays Shawn, a loan officer at a bank who is having an affair with the bank’s married vice-president. After discovering that his wife is pregnant, Shawn has a meltdown and goes to the roof to kill herself.

At the same time, bank robbers hijack an armored car. When the police arrive to stop Shawn from jumping, one of the bank robbers (Thompson) accidentally gets caught. The cops thwart the robbery, but one of the robbers, Charlie Anders (Beesley), takes Shawn hostage at gunpoint. They make a deal: she will help him escape if he promises to kill her afterwards.

Production

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A large number of filter effects, shutter effects, and jump cuts are used to make long dialogue scenes (particularly between the two cops and between the two lovers) more visually interesting. The audio itself on both is done as a single long take.

Dana Lustig, the director, makes an on screen appearance as Shawn's stepmother.

It was filmed in Canada.

Soundtrack

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Kill Me Later's opening theme was the dream pop song "The Old Fashioned Way" by the New York-based band Luna.

No.TitleArtistLength
1."The Old Fashioned Way"Luna 
2."Havin' a Bad Day"Blue Flannel 
3."House is Falling"The Geraldine Fibbers 
4."Eilat"Danny Lerman 
5."She's Still in Dallas"Hal Ketchum 
6."For Now You're Just a Dream"Danny Lerman 
7."Yeghish Manoukian"Following the Banks of the Arax River 
8."Fiction"Yve Adam 
9."Streets"Camillia 
10."Growing A Way"Remo 
11."Shady"Paul Christian Gordon 

In 2005 the German Industrial metal band Rammstein released Spring. Although the song did not have a promotional music video, an unofficial version which features scenes from the film Kill Me Later, became one of the most watched videos of the band on the Internet.

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