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Is IFC Midnight's Brutal Pick-Up Kill List the Dogtooth of SXSW '11?

Is IFC Midnight's Brutal Pick-Up Kill List the Dogtooth of SXSW '11?

The psycho-sexual anthology Little Deaths made a minor splash at SXSW as the Serbian Film of this year's fest, leaving many searching for the film most analogous to Ben Wheatley's even better-loved SXFantastic buzz film Kill List. But while parallels to previous SXSW hits like Monsters and Wheatley's own Down Terrace have been drawn, another entry from last year's festival circuit instead comes to mind: Yorgos Lanthimos' crazypants domestic drama Dogtooth.

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