Killers #8

Jean-Pierre Melville's "Le Deuxième Souffle", 1966.

Killers #7

Anthony Mann's "T-Men", 1947.

The hitman emerges slowly from the blackness.  It's the best shot of the film and it happens about two minutes in.

Killers #6

From Abraham Polonsky's "Force of Evil", 1949.

Killers #5

From William Wyler's "The Letter", 1940.

Orpheus Descending; Killers #4

From Marcel Camus' "Black Orpheus", 1959.

The rings of hell.

Death appears at the window.

"The 39 Steps": Essential Films #2, Killers #3

Alfred Hitchcock, 1935

The assassin.

"Atlantic City": Killers #2

Louis Malle, 1980.

Robert Joy's peaceful expression suggests a minimal acquaintanceship with the condition of being stabbed in the chest.

"Blind Shaft": Killers #1

An early scene from Yang Li's "Blind Shaft", 2003.

Two partners will murder a fellow worker, pass it off as accidental and extort hush money from the owner of the mine.

Of the two, I find this shot more chilling for the man's casualness as he cracks his victim's skull.

Here the expression on the other conspirator's face reminds me of Goya.  For example:

Goya's "Hobgoblins".

Take a few minutes and be humbled by Goya's Caprichos.