
Sadism and masochism beneath a veneer of revenge. Lou Ford is a mild-mannered sheriff's deputy in a Texas oil town in the mid 1950's. His boss sends him to roust a prostitute living in a rural house. She slaps him; he hits her, then, after daily sex for the next few weeks, he decides it's love. She's devoted to him and becomes his pawn in a revenge plot she thinks is to shakedown the son of Chester Conway, the town's wealthy king of construction. Lou has a different plan, and... (Full plot summary below)
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Sadism and masochism beneath a veneer of revenge. Lou Ford is a mild-mannered sheriff's deputy in a Texas oil town in the mid 1950's. His boss sends him to roust a prostitute living in a rural house. She slaps him; he hits her, then, after daily sex for the next few weeks, he decides it's love. She's devoted to him and becomes his pawn in a revenge plot she thinks is to shakedown the son of Chester Conway, the town's wealthy king of construction. Lou has a different plan, and bodies pile up as murder leads to murder. The district attorney suspects Lou, and Conway may have an inkling, but Lou stays cool. Is love, or at least peace, in the cards?
Leave your thoughts about The Killer Inside Me.
| VarietyTodd McCarthyA film that should but doesn't get under your skin and give you the creeps. |
| JoBlo's Movie EmporiumChris BumbrayMany with loathe it, but hopefully, just as many will love it. |
| Electric SheepVirginie SélavyCrucially, the film fails to coherently convey the fact that Lou is an unreliable narrator and that what he tells us might not be true, something that would help explain the characterisation of the women and distance the film from his view of them. |
| DeadspinWill LeitchThe heralded "violent" scene practically screams "We need domestic distribution!" I don't think anyone in this movie actually likes this movie. |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanThis withholding actor's (Affleck) impish smile and mild, pale-eyed stare--not to mention the Clintonesque hoarseness with which he spins his convoluted lies--are sufficiently convincing to keep The Killer Inside Me from being just a steamy, stylish, punishing bloodbath. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThe Killer Inside Me is tough, disturbing stuff: We're tagging along with a sociopath as he explains himself, reveals himself, works things out inside his head. |
| Cinema AutopsyThomas CaldwellThis is compelling and challenging cinema, punctuated with genuinely shocking moments, by a director and a cast of actors who are right at the top of their game. |
| Boston HeraldJames VerniereBoasting a shockingly nasty turn by baby-faced, baby-voiced Casey Affleck in the title role, the film is one of Winterbottom's best (only "Tristram Shandy" and "24 Hour Party People" are as fine), although moviegoers should beware: the film features two h |
| Seattle TimesJohn HartlTo his credit, Affleck avoids making Lou suggest a reboot of Robert. He's pushy and cowardly, but in a more calculating way, and he's sadistically sexual in a way that Robert never was. |
| Mark Reviews MoviesMark DujsikWinterbottom has crafted a handsome film about the ugliness of the worst of human nature and, in the process, given us a fascinating dissection of genre mechanics. |