'They Will Kill You' Test Audiences Made Director Soften the Violence Against Zazie Beetz

"They Will Kill You" co-writer/director Kirill Sokolov once rented an apartment in what he describes as a "strange building." "Mostly lonely old ladies lived there for some reason," Sokolov said. He and his wife were the only couple in the building younger than 65. One day he discovered a hole behind the kitchen cabinet that led to another apartment unit. He and his wife started joking that they were in a building run by a bloodthirsty cult. One night, Sokolov imagined, the cult members would climb through the hole and sacrifice them to a Pagan god. A few years ago, Sokolov . . .