Almost embodying their characters too well, Harrelson and Lewis make their sadistic lovelorn couple suitably charming considering their roles as media darlings, while Robert Downey Jr.
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Starring Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis, the film centers on two young, attractive serial killers who become TV darling personalities, playing on the idea of sensationalism in the press when covering heinous crimes. More so than most films that also place themselves in the minds of serial killers, Oliver Stone’s “ Natural Born Killers” unnerves you from the opening moments until the credits roll, viewers suitably unsettled. If “The Wicker Man” is the “ Citizen Kane” of Horror Films, then Peeping Tom must be Welles’s “ War of The Worlds” - perversion and subversion beyond the limits of a contemporary audience. This really is top-tier British cinema, on par with sixties classics “ Alfie,” “ Blow Up” and “If…”, few British films would captivate like this for scares until the double bill of “ Don’t Look Now” and “ The Wicker Man” (1973) were released.
Martin Scorsese has pointed to this film as a guide to directing, and it is a director’s tour de force (Powell playing Lewis’s father is a nice touch - directing Lewis’s life et al), behind a flow of killings and acts of sordid re-enactments, re-cut after re-cut of continuous blood spilling and murder. Voyeurism has never been so evil, a tactile Mark Lewis ( Carl Boehm) so grossly engrossed in the acts of killing, to the ever-growing discomfort of the viewers. This is the anti “ A Matter of Life and Death,” the pervasive perverse, the sanguine sickly and severely put-on celluloid. This may have been the film that killed Michael Powell‘s career, but what a career send off (he lamented in his book that nobody wanted the film when it was released, but everyone watched the film in the years after). When it comes from Hitchcock, such madness is exhilarating. Many films have tried to obtain the same theatrical expertise as Hitchcock’s masterpiece, including Gus Van Sant in a widely-considered ill-advised shot-for-shot remake in 1998, but only a few have reached the same rigorously heart-pounding heights.
Taut and graceful in its execution, it’s a beautiful blend of precision and chaos, the craftsmanship of an expert filmmaker at the top of his game. A character study into the twisted, misunderstood mind of Norman Bates, “Psycho” not only became one of the first mainstream installment in the slasher genre but also one of the director’s most compelling, calculated character studies.
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Quite possibly the most well-known and instantly recognizable movie from the master of suspense and his extensive filmography, “Psycho” is a spellbinding, unsettling departure for the established filmmaker, once a risky, unproven indie effort that proved itself to be one of Hitchcock’s most vigorously accomplished creations. The influence and notoriety of Alfred Hitchcock’s chilling, unnerving “ Psycho” is so widespread in our modern culture that it’s easy to forget the film’s effective creepiness.
READ MORE: Martin Scorsese Names His 11 Scariest Horror Movies of All Time With Halloween about to hit and gruesome, twisted moods in the air, we thought the confluence of all the sociopathy and aberrant comportment felt like the perfect time to take a deep look at some of the best serial killer movies ever made. “Stranger Things” might be sucking the Netflix oxygen out of the room, but “Mindhunter” might be the best thing we’ve seen on television all year. READ MORE: The 25 Best Horror Films Of The 1970s Like the title suggests, this is an exploration of pathology and behavior prediction. A type of second-run at “ Zodiac,” Fincher’s serial-killer and obsession film that ran nearly three hours long and taxed audiences at the time, “Mindhunter,” examines serial killers through a similar lens, but from a new angle. Thanks to David Fincher, the troubled minds of serial killers are once again the focus of our attention thanks to his new Netflix series, “ Mindhunter,” a kind of spiritual cousin and continuation of the director’s own preoccupation with killers and what makes them tick.
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READ MORE: David Fincher Digs Deep Into Serial Killers With Netflix Series ‘Mindhunter’ The mind of a killer, their disturbing motivations, their often perverse behavior and their unknownable, sociopathic thinking is not unlike our obsession with the great white shark: culture is always fixated on apex killers and the more mysterious and impossible to peg, the more fanatical we are about their own preoccupations and psychotic neuroses. From movies, documentaries, novels and non-fiction books to plays and podcasts, serial killers have fascinated in pretty much every medium possible.
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