Wow, this was...wow. I can't believe this was written in 1952. Thie Killer Inside Me was an excellent noir story set in small town Texas in the 50's. Spare lean prose and a first person perspective that was extremely well done, this is a fine example of noir fiction, as dark as it gets.
This was an interesting story but it was told in the first person and sometimes these are hard to read for me. Lou is a friendly and nice enough guy, most of the time. Sometimes the darkness gets out!
Ever meet someone at a party and think they're pretty cool until they let something slip and you realize they may in fact be bat-shit psycho? That's how Lou Ford, the protagonist of The Killer Inside Me is. I also suspect that Jim Thompson may have been that way as well.The Killer Inside Me is the...
This was my orginal thoughts with which I was never satisfied:Until I saw this my gut feeling was that it would be impossible to take Jim Thompson to the screen, but I stand corrected. Fabulous movie which precisely captures the spirit of Thompson’s writing. I first suggested seeing this to a male w...
Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson describes the obsession of a small-town deputy sheriff. He is beloved by the community for his uncommon ability to calm violent prisoners. Told in the first-person, we soon learn of the narrator's dark past and even more foreboding future.
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