"The Killer Inside Me" tells the story of Lou Ford (played by ... well Winterbottom and screenwriter John Curran can capture the book's eerie, haunting power, or Lou's willful lack of self-knowledge.

The book's first-person perspective offers ... I could only see "The Killer Inside Me" as an auteur pushing the envelope for the sake of pushing the envelope.

In fundamental ways, Michael Winterbottom’s film of “The Killer Inside Me” is not the Jim Thompson novel it’s based on. Thompson’s book, published in 1952, is a shocking piece of pulp ...

Spoilers ahead – although one of these books only wants you to think the ... fun with the pulpiness of the storyline. 9. 'The Killer Inside Me' (1952) by Jim Thompson Another classic American ...

STEPHEN KING once said of the novelist Jim Thompson: “He was crazy. He went running into the American subconscious with a blowtorch in one hand and a pistol in the other, screaming his goddamn ...