A thrill kill is premeditated or random murder that is motivated by the sheer excitement of the act. While there have been attempts to categorize multiple murders, such as identifying "thrill killing" as a type of "hedonistic mass killing", actual details of events frequently overlap category definitions making attempts at such distinctions problematic. Thrill killers have been frequently romanticized in films. A British tabloid headline inspired the name of the band My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult.