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Leading the way is Jake Gyllenhaal, but his emotionally distressed character would be nothing without the terrifying Texas psychopath played by Aaron Taylor - Johnson.

Not exact matches

The results of that study played a big part in stoking fears, still common today, that psychopaths exploit psychological treatments to become better criminals.

In last Sunday's Film of the Week, the protagonist, a Hollywood screenwriter played by Colin Farrell, had a title for his drama, «Seven Psychopaths», but no plot.

Filmmaker Rob Zombie returns to Haddonfield for this Dimension Films sequel that finds the murderous psychopath Michael Myers (once again played by Tyler Mane) out on the loose again.

More recently Ethan played young Henry Mesner in the episode «Born Psychopath» for LAW & ORDER: SVU.

Playing every nuance of his part, Baldwin paints a marvelous psychopath who is two - thirds evil and one - third intellectual.

Alec Baldwin gives a great performance as a halfcocked psychopath whose love of life is so strong, mixed up and unscrupulous, he can't help but enjoy breaking fingers, busting jaws, playing cops - and - robbers, shooting people on a gut feeling and answering questions about his preferred vegetables with a pause to think out the words «I don't want to talk about that at this time.»

A lot of this comes into play when facing off against the game's psychopaths, who act as boss enemies.

Sure, but that's a pretty safe prerequisite for a film to demand these days, and the fact that it plays off them brilliantly with a mix of subtle and over-the-top performances makes Seven Psychopaths all the more enjoyable a comedy.

In Seven Psychopaths, he shockingly played the least psychotic of the bunch — a sage, sensible old man who attempts to go on living after his wife, the love of his life, passes on.

How did you learn to play such a convincing psychopath?

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Then came 2012's «Seven Psychopaths,» a violent, self - aware comedy in which Farrell plays a frustrated writer who dreams up a deranged scenario that includes Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Woody Harrelson and others.

Stephen Curry and Emma Booth play a married pair of serial killer psychopaths in Perth, circa the late 80s, who target teenage school girls.

And at the center of it all, there's Captain Daly, played by Jesse Plemons, that master of the cheerfully dead - eyed TV psychopath.

Luckily for Marty he's about to get all the inspiration he needs because Billy just happened to nab the dog of a real life psychopath (Woody Harrelson) and he doesn't play nice.

If you recall, Dandy Mott was played by Finn Wittrock in «Freak Show,» who was a immature, sadistic psychopath obsessed with the conjoined twins played by Sarah Paulson.

There's Brian Van Holt (TV's Cougar Town) playing a treacherous psychopath.

Martin McDonagh (In Bruges) wrote and directed Seven Psychopaths which reunites him with actor Colin Farrell who plays a screenwriter struggling for inspiration for his script, which just so happens to be called Seven Psychopaths, who gets drawn into the dog kidnapping schemes of his oddball friends (played by Sam Rockwell & Christopher Walken).

In this biopic, Depp plays Southie mob king James «Whitey» Bulger, a «ripened psychopath» who strikes a sweet deal with neighborhood pal turned FBI agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton).

This fall sees him reuniting with his In Bruges director Martin McDonagh for Seven Psychopaths, in which Farrell plays a screenwriter who gets tangled up in a dog - kidnapping scheme gone awry.

Christina Hendricks plays a modestly dressed psychopath of a teacher, while Tracy Morgan plays Tracy Morgan, and there is nothing wrong with that.

Jamie Foxx plays Bats, the requisite psychopath of the group, although he performs the role with enough restraint that the character is genuinely both funny and a threat in equal measure.

Starring Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) as the titular psychopath and Marion Cotillard (Two Days, One Night) as his lady fair and foul, this adaptation of the «Scottish Play» offers startling visuals and brutal violence as complements to the great Bard's already evocative text in a boiling broth of madness that is ultimately be a hot mess, but a gorgeous one (or, at least, one gorged with blood).

After all, the main character is a screenwriter named Marty (played by Colin Farrell) who is writing a movie called Seven Psychopaths, and wants it to be about psychopaths who arenPsychopaths, and wants it to be about psychopaths who arenpsychopaths who aren't killers.

Whereas Nicholson played the Joker as a portly, slightly menacing clown, the younger Ledger plays him as a dangerous psychopath with makeup by Francis Bacon.

Perhaps the rating was due to the fact that Culkin's biggest fans are primarily children, many of whom had already learned to emulate his behavior from the Home Alone films, and parents would have been concerned about the possibility of kids acting like their role model when he plays an amoral psychopath.

Depp plays Bulger as a pale - eyed, eerily controlled psychopath - next - door — and if the intense, unsettling trailers are anything to go by, it'll be his best performance in years (which isn't saying much, but still).

In this moment and throughout the film, Christopher Walken reminds us that although he often plays caricatures and joins in kidding his mannerisms (see the recent «Seven Psychopaths»), he can be a deep and subtle actor, particularly good at suggesting deep intelligence.

Although unconfirmed, it seems likely that Ganz will play the serial killer, but it may very well be the younger Dillon who dons the mask of the»70s era psychopath.

Nothing can prepare him, however, for the arrival of a brilliant psychopath and the games he wants to play.

Fans of Miami Metro's blood - spatter specialist and everyones favourite secret psychopath will want to check out this latest featurette looking at intriguing new character Dr. Evelyn Vogel played by veteran Britisah actress Charlotte Rampling.

Samuel Goldywn Films recently debuted this official trailer for the new horror thriller titled Psychopaths, which first played at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year.

McDonagh, who previously wrote and directed the hysterical «In Bruges,» also brought back his «Bruges» star Colin Farrell, suggesting there may be some connective tissue between that acidic gut - buster and this go - round, with Farrell playing the author attempting to pen his opus «Seven Psychopaths.»

Colin Farrell plays a writer who is blocked after creating the perfect title... «Seven Psychopaths».

Even the Midnight Madness screenings have red carpets now, if a movie as star - studded as Seven Psychopaths is playing.

She argues with the sheriff and a corrupt police officer, played respectively by Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell, two of the stars of Seven Psychopaths.

«Three Billboards» marked the pair's third collaboration following a stage play and the film «Seven Psychopaths.»

But at least they are compelling characters: the sadly clairvoyant Dr. Manhattan (Billy Crudup), who knows to much and is watching his faith in humanity ebb in to the ether; the vampirish Ozymandius (Matthew Goode), an effete tycoon who is the smartest man in the world; the embittered Rorchach (Walter Kovacs), a psychopath whose toxic moods swim across his masked face as shifting ink blots; Nite Owl II (Dan Drieberg), who is basically Batman with a Clark Kent - like alter ego as a mild - mannered model of mid-life impotence; and the latex - sheathed, dominatrix - next - door, Silk Spectre II — played by Toronto actress and Maxim cover girl Malin Akerman, who made an appearance at the Toronto premiere I attended last night.

Best known for his plays, including Beauty Queen of Leenane, McDonagh is a master at crackling dialogue, a talent he also displayed in his previous two crime movies, In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths which both starred Colin Farrell.

That's saying a lot since the British / Irish filmmaker is one of our greatest living storytellers, from the exceptional «In Bruges» with Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell and the underappreciated «Seven Psychopaths» to the shocking play «The Pillowman,» among others.

And Farrell gets to play a writer, like McDonagh, although in Psychopaths, you hardly see him writing.

Three Billboards... feels like it was the ideal project to take Martin McDonagh to the next stage in his career, moving on from the well - written and well - played, but perhaps slightly indulgent, Seven Psychopaths.

Farrell plays Martin Faranan, an alcoholic Irish screenwriter in Los Angeles who is struggling to get going on a screenplay titled Seven Psychopaths.

Domestic animals play a significant role in McDonagh's body of work (consider the cat in The Lieutenant of Inishmore, the cow in «Six Shooter,» McDonagh's Oscar - winning short), and in Seven Psychopaths the canines run amok.

In terms of tone, John Michael McDonagh's first film shot outside in the United States feels a bit like the latest U.S. - based film turned in by his filmmaking brother, Martin McDonagh, Seven Psychopaths, another film that I compared to the post-Pulp Fiction clones that came out in the late 1990s, full of bloody violence, brash attitude, and peppered with jokey moments that play to the crowd, such as one of the characters musing on whether a mime will make a sound when he is hit with a car.

And Depp plays a psychopath very well which this film, to its detriment, never misses an opportunity to show.

Director: Martin McDonagh Cast: Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken, Colin Farrell, Woody Harrelson Watch Seven Psychopaths online in the UK: TalkTalk TV Store / iTunes / Amazon Instant Video / Google Play

Willem Dafoe generally nails it when it comes to playing weirdos, creeps, and psychopaths.

But there's no excuse for the rest of the townspeople: The police department is filled with racist psychopaths, led by deputy Dixon, played by Sam Rockwell — whose behavior goes completely unchallenged for most of the film.