"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.

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The savage wit of Jim Thompson is just another casualty, albeit the only unintentional one, in "The Killer Inside Me," an adaptation ... and Thompson’s book is a page-turning series of episodes ...

Ferguson), partly to settle an old score but also because the virulent urge “inside” has come to the ... period when the novel was written, this “Killer” lacks punch, dynamism and ...

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