
A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed. His murders are introduced with the killing of an asthmatic junkie. The killer settles into a seaside rooming house run by an unhappy married couple and waits for his next victims to unveil themselves. Dream cops plague his nights, while plotting his murders. Meanwhile, he also starts a relationship with a postal cl... (Full plot summary below)
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A cold-blooded serial killer floats around the country and chooses his victims from people who complain about their lives and indicate a willingness to be killed. His murders are introduced with the killing of an asthmatic junkie. The killer settles into a seaside rooming house run by an unhappy married couple and waits for his next victims to unveil themselves. Dream cops plague his nights, while plotting his murders. Meanwhile, he also starts a relationship with a postal clerk.
Leave your thoughts about The Minus Man.
| Boston GlobeJay CarrThe sly and subtle Minus Man is a wicked little sidewinder of a black comedy. |
| Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasEerie, quietly compelling... a fresh and mesmerizing experience...such an unsettling experience you find yourself still taking it all in well after the lights have gone up. |
| VarietyGlen LovellThe kind of muted, anything-but-obvious psychological thriller Hitchcock would have loved. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThis creepy serial killer tale had more fright in it than the more highly touted "Felicia's Journey." |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertLow-key, understated style. The suspense beats away underneath. |
| About.comFred TopelHorrible character piece. Nothing happens and you don't care why. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversExcellent acting and a finely tuned screenplay spark this genuinely offbeat melodrama. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumWith no climactic showdown and no comforting revelation of motive or reassuring psychoanalytic diagnosis, the nerve-rattling potential of this sly, paranoia-inducing story may sink in only later. |
| San Francisco ExaminerWesley MorrisFancher's placid, eerily subdued first directorial feature. |
| Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorDisarming-misfit story, which combines elements of a road movie, romance, small-town idyll, and police procedural. |