During the English Civil War, a band of deserters escapes a battlefield and encounters an alchemist. Forced to help him find a hidden treasure in an overgrown field, they descend into chaos amidst arguments and paranoia. As they realize the treasure may not be gold, they fall prey to the field's terrifying energies.
Kill List director Ben Wheatley turns the period drama to his usual subversive ends in a grisly slice of English civil-war psychedelia, writes Peter Bradshaw
If 2012’s ‘Sightseers’ suggested that British filmmaker Ben Wheatley was moving in a slightly more commercial direction following the whacked-out hitma...