Is it because they seem to be the go - to
style of serial killers?
Not exact matches
I try writing them down on scraps
of printer paper, which get tacked to an adjacent bulletin board in the finest
serial -
killer style.
But when Thomson accidentally kills someone with his
styling shears, he quickly finds himself at the centre
of a large
serial killer investigation, championed by two
of Scotland's most incompetent task forces.
The spirit
of a vicious child
serial killer resurfaces in the nightmares
of teens in modern - day and is responsible for their subsequent and shocking deaths in this tense, spooky thriller from who else, but Wes Craven (I'm actually not that familiar at all with his
style, but since this is a horror film for the ages I figured I'd best get ahead and jump on the bandwagon as quick as possible to make up for lost time).
«So he's into low - budget slasher flicks... with really, really big special - effects budgets,» Ollie (Chris Dinh) glibly says to Blair (Katie Savoy) moments before their sickening realization that they are trapped inside a
serial killer's dungeon fitted with Temple
of Doom -
style moving walls.
An expressionist, southern gothic noir, The Night
of the Hunter (adapted by James Agee from Davis Grubb's novel) tracks the devious exploits
of self -
styled reverend and
serial killer Harry Powell (Mitchum) as he gets out
of jail and sets out to wed Willa Harper (Shelley Winters), the widow
of his deceased cellmate, and murder her for her hidden fortune; it falls to her children to stop the madman living in their house.
Particularly cunning are a series
of neatly embedded vengeance fables in which assassins eat their own, Ouroboros -
style:
killers who target
serial killers;
killers who target child
killers; and
killers who target «only mid - to high - ranking members
of the Italian - American crime syndicate or the Yakuza.»
One
of the latter recruits is Zachariah (the hoarse - voiced Tom Waits) who hilariously describes his life travelling around America with his black lover killing notorious
serial killers in appropriate
styles.
He breaks from the
style of that film for a psychological - horror / neo-noir starring Christopher Abbott as a
serial killer who runs into a victim for whom he was not entirely prepared.
Instead
of a medical fight, though, Muntor becomes a man on a mission, hellbent on taking down the tobacco industry,
serial killer -
style.