The Killer Inside Me (2010)

A West Texas Deputy Sheriff is slowly unmasked as a psychotic killer.

Director:

Michael Winterbottom

Writers:

John Curran, Jim Thompson (novel)

Stars:

Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba

2 wins & 5 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Casey Affleck	...	Lou Ford
Kate Hudson	...	Amy Stanton
Jessica Alba	...	Joyce Lakeland
Ned Beatty	...	Chester Conway
Elias Koteas	...	Joe Rothman
Tom Bower	...	Sheriff Bob Maples
Simon Baker	...	Howard Hendricks
Bill Pullman	...	Billy Boy Walker
Brent Briscoe	...	Bum / Stranger
Matthew Maher	...	Deputy Jeff Plummer
Liam Aiken	...	Johnnie Pappas
Jay R. Ferguson	...	Elmer Conway
Ali Nazary	...	Max Pappas
Blake Lindsley	...	Waitress
Zach Josse	...	Lou - 13 (as Zachary Josse)

Storyline

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?

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Plot Keywords:

bare butt | brief female frontal nudity | neo noir | nude photograph | female rear nudity | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for disturbing brutal violence, aberrant sexual content and some graphic nudity

Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site

Country:

UK Sweden Canada USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 June 2010 (UK)

Also Known As:

El demonio bajo la piel

Filming Locations:

Cattlemen's Steakhouse, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$13,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

£124,006 (United Kingdom), 6 June 2010, Limited Release

Opening Weekend USA:

$11,083, 20 June 2010, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$214,966, 15 August 2010

Company Credits

Production Co:

Hero Entertainment,Muse Productions,Stone Canyon Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

109 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Andrew Dominik had written a highly stylized screenplay for the movie in 2003, and was at one point considered to direct it. Not long afterward in 2004, Dominik would accidentally stumble across an obscure western epic novel by Ron Hansen in an Australian bookstore, which he later adapted as The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007).

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Goofs

The gun that Lou kills Elmer with and then puts into Joyce's hand was manufactured by a company called Lorcin Engineering that operated between the years of 1989 and 1999, and therefore could not have existed during the time-frame in which the movie was set.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Sheriff Bob Maples: Name of Joyce Lakeland. Lives about four or five miles out on Derrick Road past the old Branch place.
Lou Ford: Oh, I know the old Branch place. She a hustling lady, Bob?
Sheriff Bob Maples: Well, I guess so, but she's - she's been pretty decent about it.

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Connections

Version of The Killer Inside Me (1976)

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Soundtracks

Al's Steel Guitar Wobble
Written by Al Petty
Performed by Jack Rhodes and Al Petty
Courtesy of Gusto-King Records and Glad Music Publishing LP and Pappy Daily Music LP

User Reviews

Disappointing

Cant help expecting more.....

The good things -

Casey Affleck and the character of Lou Ford as the baby faced psycho who thinks he is smart but isn't as clever as he believes Plausible violence - It wasn't good to watch but the situations felt real. I am still not convinced it was so necessary to have so much as you can get the point fairly quickly and then it just starts eating up film time which you could probably use better doing other things.

The bad things The ending - was stupid on so many levels. If by some chance it wasn't in his imagination then what are the chances that so many people have no sense of smell... Would have been much better to finish the film 10 minutes earlier. Dialogue. Maybe its just me and maybe it was the cinema but I just didn't catch what was being said a lot of the time. The Elias Koteas character in particular was hard to understand, and with so many little clues and pointers to whats happening and the different relationships its frustrating when you start missing things

The film as a whole felt incoherent, and I cant help thinking that there are much better films covering the same sort of area