Kill Your Darlings (2006 film)

Kill Your Darlings
Promotional poster
Directed by	Björne Larson
Written by	Björne Larson
Starring	Lolita Davidovich Andreas Wilson Fares Fares Alexander Skarsgård Julie Benz John Larroquette Greg Germann Benito Martinez
Release date	2006 (2006)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	Sweden
Language	Swedish

Kill Your Darlings is a 2006 film directed by Björne Larson and written by Björne Larson and Johan Sandström. In an interview with Svenska Dagbladet, Larson said that the film is based on a real event in his life when he met a seemingly nice man at an internet cafe in Los Angeles who ended up leaving Larson bound and restrained in a desert. The film features a cast of many of the most popular contemporary Swedish actors (Fares Fares, father and son Stellan and Alexander Skarsgård, and Andreas Wilson from Oscar-nominated Evil) and some less famous U.S. actors Julie Benz and Greg Germann, and Canadian Lolita Davidovitch.

The title seems to be a reference to the popular advice for writers, "Murder your darlings," commonly misattributed but written by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.