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The Killer Inside Me

2010Movie1 h 49 minR

CrimeDrama
54
MediocreGoodWatch score
IMDb6.1Letterboxd2.9/5Metacritic535.6Rotten Tomatoes56%40%
54
MediocreGoodWatch score
IMDb6.1Letterboxd2.9/5Metacritic535.6Rotten Tomatoes56%40%

Summary

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his "sickness": He is a brilliant, but disturbed sociopathic sadist.

Good for

  • Friends night
  • Thought-provoking
  • Adults

Skip it if

  • You need an uplifting mood
  • You want fast pacing
  • Graphic violence bothers you

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  • Puts you inside a crime.
  • Leaves you shaken.
  • Keeps you on edge.
  • Feels like real life.
  • Weighs on you.

Not for warmth, uplift or comfort.

The whole fingerprint· the print and its 12 scales

At a glance

Tropes

Manipulative Bastardin 1,723 titlesLou, given his reputation as a perfect Southern Gentleman in the town, gets people to have total faith in him and so they naturally tend to confide to him.Bondage Is Badin 169 titlesSubverted, despite Lou being a sociopathic and sadistic killer, having sadomasochistic fantasies is in no way described as wrong.All 24 tropes

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