When Kick-Ass is finally released next week, for a lot of people it’s going to be like a shock to the system. How’d they get away with it? How did they do it? At least some of the answers are right here.

Below we have ten minutes of candid video taken from behind the scenes of the Kick-Ass set. Click play and you’ll see how some of the movie’s most exciting scenes were put together, as Matthew Vaughn directs his cast through a variety of stunts, fight sequences, and emotional outbursts. It’s a fascinating and completely unfiltered way to look inside the filmmaking process. Take a look:

Set Video 1


Set Video 2


Now see some of those under construction scenes completed. Below we have clips from three finished Kick-Ass sequences: