This adaptation of Thompson's 1952 novel about a cunning, psychotic sheriff's deputy in a small Texas town locates the killer inside him and immerses us in the cold calculation and horrible logic that pull him from one murder to the next.
The Killer Inside Me
Nobody Sees It Coming
2010 · 1h 49m · R
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Michael Winterbottom
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The Killer Inside Me
Overview
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.
Director and cast
- Michael Winterbottom Director
- Casey Affleck as Lou Ford
- Kate Hudson as Amy Stanton
- Jessica Alba as Joyce Lakeland
- Ned Beatty as Chester Conway
- Tom Bower as Sheriff Bob Maples
- Simon Baker as Howard Hendricks
- Bill Pullman as Billy Boy Walker
- Elias Koteas as Joe Rothman
- Liam Aiken as Johnnie Pappas
- Brent Briscoe as Bum
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
What a crock.
Little, however, can save The Killer Inside Me from its worst impulses, its reveling in brute violence that makes it hard to watch and nearly impossible to admire, even though it's carefully crafted.
As for the misogynist brutality, it is indeed depraved, made more so by the fact that its female victims are depicted as loving their abuse right up until it turns murderous.
The question of Winterbottom's intent here isn't easily answered, but the power of his abuse scenes is undeniable.
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