2010 · crime · drama · thriller
The Killer Inside Me
Directed by Michael Winterbottom1h 49m2010
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.
Our read: The Killer Inside Me (2010) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crime · drama · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme crime / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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“You want noir cruelty exposing a charming small-town deputy's monstrous sickness.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if graphic assault scenes will haunt you; this is punishingly grim.
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