The Killer Inside Me is set in the 1950s and is based on the novel by Jim Thompson. The film is about a handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff’s deputy named Lou Ford (Affleck). Bored, he slowly turns into a ruthless, sociopathic, two-timing murderer. When eyes turn to him, he’s on borrowed time and quickly running out of alibis. However in Thompson’s savage, bleak, blacker-than-noir universe nothing is what it seems and it seems that those pursuing him might just have a few secrets of their own.

The Killer Inside Me is a classic thriller filled with suspense, drama, violence and steamy action. It is a fast paced film with more twists than a cork screw. So if you are up for a good old fashioned detective thriller The Killer Inside Me is a film not to be missed. I’ll definitely be watching this one.

Jess (George) is the single mother of a small autistic boy. Worn down by the constant need to keep an eye on him, and in bad need of a break, she is able to leave him one sunny weekend to head off on a yachting trip with a group of friends. But it’s just not her day. The boat is capsized by a freak storm and Jess and three other survivors are rescued by an ocean liner that appears – once they set foot on board – to be completely abandoned. What’s more, Jess has the unshakable feeling she has been here before.

Of course, she has been there before, and piece by piece we’re given an explanation of why she has this strange sense of déjà vu, how she’s connected to the other people on board, and why she’s too fuddled and tired to put the pieces together to save her companions from the horrible events about to unfold. (Not to give anything crucial away, let me say that the explanation we’re given does not make the slightest bit of sense – but this is less of a flaw than it sounds.)

Not a great horror film, but always a competent one, and one which keeps us at least a little uncertain, until the very end, as to whether or not the characters really are doomed, or if there is perhaps a way out.