The Killer Inside Me (2010)

Cautiously Recommended

UK/Canada/USA

Feature Film

Director: Michael Winterbottom

Writers: John Curran, Michael Winterbottom, Jim Thompson

Cinematographer: Marcel Zyskind

Composer: Melissa Parmenter

Cast: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower, Simon Baker, Bill Pullman, Brent Briscoe, Matthew Maher, Liam Aiken, Jay R. Ferguson

Those not familiar with Jim Thompson’s 1952 novel may well find themselves struggling to understand the motivation of the central character in Winterbottom’s (rightly) sickeningly violent portrait of a meek small town deputy sheriff who commits a series of brutal murders, which, though generally well crafted, really struggles to get beneath the skin of its killer. Iain.Stott