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The Killer Inside Me is a 2010 American crime drama and an adaptation of the 1952 novel of the same name by Jim Thompson. The film is directed by Michael Winterbottom and stars Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba, and Kate Hudson. It is the second film adaptation of Thompson's novel, the first being 1976's The Killer Inside Me, directed by Burt Kennedy.
Published in 1952, The Killer Inside Me is a true classic of noir crime fiction--a dark, disturbing tale that seems somehow to improve with each reading, in this case, the third for me. The story is narrated by Lou Ford, a deputy sheriff in the small west Texas town of Central City.
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Jun 25, 2010 · Jim Emerson June 25, 2010. Tweet. Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of Jim Thompson's "The Killer Inside Me" is one of the deepest, darkest films noir ever made -- an unflinchingly nasty, nihilistic piece of work that pulls no punches, literally or figuratively.
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1h 49m. IMDb RATING. 6.1 /10. 36K. YOUR RATING. Rate. Play trailer 2:32. 1 Video. 99+ Photos. Crime Drama Mystery. A West Texas Deputy Sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer. Director. Michael Winterbottom. Writers. John Curran. Jim Thompson. Stars. Casey Affleck. Kate Hudson. Jessica Alba. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. +6.
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Jun 23, 2010 · What Thompson saw in his character Lou Ford ( Casey Affleck) was a mild-spoken, intellectual psychopath with no understanding of good and evil. He murders people he loves, while loving them, and has no idea why. The story's insights into this seem limited to the title. There is a killer inside him.
The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications. [1] In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s , it is described as "one of the most blistering and uncompromising crime novels ever written."
Jun 17, 2010 · Based on Jim Thompson's seminal first-person crime novel, The Killer Inside Me casts Affleck as a small-town deputy in 1950s West Texas, a man who cuts a clean figure but harbors a penchant...
