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"Anamorph": Dafor goes daffy over artistic serial killer . . .

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This Netflix (2007) film is about a serial killer who specializes in artistic, graphic murders. After 5 grisly murders Dafoe and his detective team break into his house and kill him in the process of arrest. Well, let's just say the trigger fingers were a tad aggressive on entry. Dafoe has many Monk-like OCD tendencies and has a thing for chairs. Peter Stormare is his antique chairman and a real light in this story.
Well, five years hence the murders start again! Same MO and scary like the "Uncle Eddie" murders of yore. The cry of 'copy cat' goes up and the weirdness resumes.
I really liked this as it blended weird art with murder and some of it is real butcher shop. Dafoe never plays a cheezy film so don't worry about production values or script.
Gets a plus four for the weirdness. Not streamable.

Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.

Edits: 10/06/10

Follow Ups:

Glad you liked it....A dreadful excercise in weirdness - danj 22:49:11 10/06/10 (8)
Was what I saw. Film noir as done by the Ken Russell school of schlock.
Not good.
Willem Dafoe's talents wasted in yet another stinker.

Edits: 10/06/10
- I learned something from the film and that's always a big plus. * - mr grits 10:17:59 10/07/10 (0)
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- What's with Willem? Extreme talent, extremely poor film and role choices. nt - tinear 08:51:33 10/07/10 (6)
  dfs
  - I'm 100% in agreement - danj 10:18:04 10/07/10 (4)
    He's been in some great films - PLATOON and MISSISSIPPI BURNING come immediately to mind - but too often he's in films in which his presence is the only positive. He must be like DeNiro and Pacino, two other great actors who have been in way too many stinkers. I guess they do it because they just want to keep working.
    - Don't forget "To Live and Die in LA" and "The Last Temptation..." * - mr grits 10:29:15 10/07/10 (3)
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      Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
      - RE: The last temp...the best movie Dafoe ever did. - Gandra1 08:24:35 10/08/10 (2)
        
        In Reply to: RE: Don't forget "To Live and Die in LA" and "The Last Temptation..." * posted by mr grits on October 07, 2010 at 10:29:15
        
        ...and the interesting personal view on Jesus life. Did they ever show it in Mississippi?
        
        I don't think so......it would show now but not back then. * - mr grits 15:07:24 10/12/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: The last temp...the best movie Dafoe ever did. posted by Gandra1 on October 08, 2010 at 08:24:35
        
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        Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.
        
        It doesn't hold a candle to the book - Jazz Inmate 20:39:13 10/08/10 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: The last temp...the best movie Dafoe ever did. posted by Gandra1 on October 08, 2010 at 08:24:35
        
        Scorsese could have done something great, worthy of Kazantzakis. Instead it was just mediocre.
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        We must be the change we wish to see in the world. -Gandhi
  - He's not getting any prettier or yonger....he's a niche character actor. * - mr grits 10:17:14 10/07/10 (0)
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    Share a bowl of grits with someone you love tonight.

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