Casey Affleck made a real breakthrough performances in 2007 in The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford and Gone Baby Gone which showed he had the potential to be a real acting heavyweight.
He returns to the big screen later this year with The Killer Inside Me, the Michael Winterbottom directed movie, which also stars Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba.
Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) has a bunch of problems. Woman problems. Law enforcement problems. An ever-growing pile of murder victims in his west Texas jurisdiction. And the fact that he’s a sadist, a psychopath, a killer.
Suspicion begins to fall on Lou, and it’s only a matter of time before he runs out of alibis.
As a lifelong resident, Ford has difficulty juggling his long-term girlfriend Amy (Kate Hudson), the prostitute named Joyce (Jessica Alba) that he mistakenly falls for, and the sociopathic tendencies inside him. In Thompson’s savage, bleak, blacker than noir universe nothing is ever what it seems
The film is based on the novel by pulp writer Jim Thompson which legendary director Stanley Kubrick described as “the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered.”
Take a look at the trailer for the movie:
