The Killer Inside Me

Unfortunatley, excellent trailers do not mean excellent movies. I always feel particularly betrayed by this since producing trailers might just be the best job in the universe.


So I wanted to like The Killer Inside Me from the basis that Casey Affleck's character was a small town Texas sheriff, who also had the thirst for blood. I expected to see a dark film where I followed this upstanding citizen through his public life and then continued on into the depths of his true self.

Casey Affleck is the stronger actor of the Affleck clan, but I wouldn't give him the master of accents title. Not very convincing as a Texan, and not sure if he could capture any southern state's intonation. Affleck goes to evacuate the town whore (Alba) and in the process they find they are the yin to the other's yang. Affleck gets off on beating and Alba gets off on taking one. Affleck's friend is in love with the whore and the friend's powerful father pays Affleck to run her out of town for good. Affleck decides that the best way out of the predicament is to make love to Alba, then beat her to death with his bare hands. She continues to say she loves him as her face breaks open from his fist. He then kills the friend and tries to make it look like a murder/murder.

Throughout the movie the detective (Baker) is on to him, which is not hard to believe with Affleck being sketchy and unstable the entire time. Another reason to not sing the movie's praises. The killer character is not that interesting, plain and simple. He is a young, handsome lawman, in country ass west Texas. His mother definitely skewed the way he thought one was suppose to care about a person due to her violent and incestuous needs. But once he starts killing he is just reckless, and doesn't even really try to cover himself other than killing more people. Not a planner this man.

Shock value was way up on this film, along with violence. Not sure who to talk to about the story, though I would expect it was lost in translation from writer to screen writer to director. The potential was there, and I bet the original format proves it. On the bright side, it has totally gone under the radar so a remake in the next 5-10 shouldn't be too difficult to conquer.

Ben keep directing, Casey keep acting; you guys are great team and then you only have the other to blame.