Couple of off the beaten track serial killer movies for you to see.

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Silence of the Lambs is usually the first one most think of when serial killer movies crop up but I've seen one recently and bought one I had seen before that may have been overlooked.
The first was an HBO special called Citizen X based on a true story of a Russian serial killer in Soviet Russia. The film is focused on a forensics expert(Stephen Rea) who has been put in charge of an investigation when several children turn up dead. The movie is about the difficulties Rea goes through just to get government support (as one bureaucrat notes "We don;'t have serial killers in Russia - that is a Western Phenomenon.")
The Film Stars Stephen Rea and Donald Sutherland and is thoroughly enjoyable.
The other film is Atom Egoyan's Felicia's Journey starring Bob Hoskins - My choice for best actor in 1999 - typical of Egoyan's films character is placed above plot - and we get a wholly realized serial killer more believeable than the Fun but shallow Hannibal Lecter. There is a slow boiling uneasiness about Hoskins and an Oedipus psychology intertwine and curtling the milk of his present existance. Both actors are a treat as their lives are pitiable and sewn together reminiscent of Hitchcock. It's intelligent - a slight contrivance can be forgiven in lieu of its plausability. IMO this is a vastly superior film to Silence of the Lambs - Felicia's Journey is more believable, more intricate, smarter and yes even better acted than Silence. It is also an eerily creepy film.
Most remember The Sweet Hereafter and Exotica as Egoyan's best films but Felicia's Journey is right there and I think I like this one best.

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Topic - Couple of off the beaten track serial killer movies for you to see. - RGA 22:01:32 07/20/04 (1)

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