How Kirill Sokolov Built the Flaming Axe in They Will Kill You

Kirill Sokolov and Zazie Beetz have staged one of 2026’s most talked-about set pieces in they will kill you, an action-horror comedy built around a late-night duel inside a mysterious New York apartment building. The flaming-axe sequence grew out of Sokolov’s childhood memory of living in a Russian apartment block and was executed practically with …