Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Casey AffleckLou Ford
- Kate HudsonAmy Stanton
- Jessica AlbaJoyce Lakeland
- Ned BeattyChester Conway
- Tom BowerSheriff Bob Maples
- Simon BakerHoward Hendricks
- Bill PullmanBilly Boy Walker
- Elias KoteasJoe Rothman
- Liam AikenJohnnie Pappas
- Brent BriscoeBum
Recommendations
- 88
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Killer Inside Me is tough, disturbing stuff: We're tagging along with a sociopath as he explains himself, reveals himself, works things out inside his head. - 75
Portland Oregonian
The Killer Inside Me isn’t for everyone, and even some people who think it’s their sort of thing might be offended. But it’s too well made to dismiss outright for its twisted cruelty. Maybe that’s a compliment, maybe not. - 70
Chicago Reader
In the end, his deadliest weapon turns out to be other people’s trust, something with grimmer philosophical implications than all his acts of violence combined. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
The Killer Inside Me may be the darkest film noir ever made. - 63
Chicago Sun-Times
The reader of a pulp crime thriller might be satisfied simply with the prurient descriptions, and certainly this film visualizes those and has as its victims Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson, who embody paperback covers, but the dominant presence in the film is Lou Ford, and there just doesn’t seem to be anybody at home. - 63
ReelViews
Looks great and has some raw, unsettling moments, but the overall impression is of a production that fails to achieve what it sets out to do. - 60
New York Daily News
Affleck is playing someone split down the middle, but we're stuck seeing only one side of him. - 40
Austin Chronicle
The Killer Inside Me is hardly uninteresting, and you get the sense that everyone involved tried really hard to pull off this difficult adaptation. But it would be impossible to view The Killer Inside Me as anything but a vast miscalculation.
