Not exact matches
The new William Friedkin
movie, «
Killer Joe,» starts with thunder and lightning, pelting rain, the yaps of a tethered
dog, a down - at - heel Texas trailer park, and the static fuzz on a TV screen when there's nothing left to watch.
by Walter Chaw The more cynical among us would note that the title might also refer to the time that
movies exactly like Taking Lives have stolen from hapless audiences, but the fact of it is that if not for our mortal curiosity, we might have missed genuinely good mad -
dog killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and
killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial
Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and
Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Se7en.
At first glance, in a
movie industry riddled with remakes, some filmgoers might assume that
Killer Elite, is actually a reimagining of the 1975 film, The
Killer Elite, starring James Caan and Robert Duvall from director Sam Peckinpah (Straw
Dogs).
Director David Robert Mitchell's follow - up to his breakout
movie, the creepily elegant horror film «It Follows,» is something of a change of pace: When a young man (Garfield) befriends a mysterious neighbor at his Los Angeles apartment complex (Keough), and she disappears the next day, he sets off on a surreal search for her through a La - La Land populated, in the words of the film's publicity material, by «
dog killers, aspiring actors, glitter - pop groups, nightlife personalities, «it» girls, memorabilia hoarders, masked seductresses, homeless gurus, reclusive songwriters, sex workers, wealthy socialites, topless neighbors and the shadowy billionaires floating above (and underneath) it all.»
However, for those able to get onto this
movie's wavelength, you will find a very rich comedy, moving along the lines of McDonagh's last feature, In Bruges, but taking up to a notch that involves masked assassins, serial
killer killers and
dog - loving gangsters.