The Killer Inside Me is a 2010 American film adaptation of the 1952 novel of the same name by Jim Thompson. The film is directed by Michael Winterbottom and stars Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, and Jessica Alba. At its release, it was criticised for its graphic depiction of violence directed toward women. The violence has colored most critical reviews of the film ever since.
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient, dependable, and well-liked. Beneath his pleasant facade, however, he is a sociopath with violent sexual tastes. As a teenager, Lou was caught raping a five-year-old girl by his older step-brother, Mike. However, Mike pleaded guilty to the crime and served prison time to protect Lou. After Mike's release, he was hired by the construction firm of Chester Conway (Ned Beatty). One day on the job, Mike had a fatal accident. Lou believes that Conway planned the accident.
At the prodding of Sheriff Bob Maples (Tom Bower), Lou visits Joyce Lakeland (Jessica Alba), a prostitute who is having an affair with Conway's son, Elmer (Jay R. Ferguson). When Joyce objects to Lou's treatment of her and slaps him, he throws her on the bed and uses his belt buckle to spank her until her buttocks are bruised and bleeding. Joyce enjoys pain, and she and Lou begin a passionate love affair. When Joyce suggests that he would never leave town with her, they devise a plot to extort $10,000 from the Conways. Sheriff Maples and Chester Conway ask Lou to oversee the payoff. Lou has another plan, however: Before Elmer arrives, Lou viciously beats Joyce, intending to kill her. When Elmer arrives, Lou shoots and kills him. He then plants the gun on Joyce, hoping to make the scene look like a murder/suicide. Joyce survives, however, and Conway announces his intention to see her executed for killing Elmer.
Lou's reputation begins to falter: His longtime girlfriend, Amy (Kate Hudson), suspects he is cheating on her, and the county district attorney, Howard Hendricks (Simon Baker), suspects that Lou was behind the murders. Lou, Sheriff Maples and Conway take Joyce to a hospital in Dallas where doctors can operate on her; Conway wants her alive so he can interrogate her as soon as possible. Lou waits in a hotel room while the surgery takes place. Later, a shaken Maples arrives and tells Lou that Joyce died on the operating table. Lou and Maples return to west Texas by train.
Hendricks calls Lou to tell him that a local youth, Johnnie Pappas (Liam Aiken), has been arrested and is now a suspect in the murders of Elmer and Joyce. He was found with one of the $20 bills Elmer was to give Joyce in the payoff; Conway had the bills marked in order to blackmail Joyce if she didn't leave town. Because Lou is close to Johnnie, Hendricks asks Lou to persuade him to confess. But Lou had given Johnnie the marked $20 bill after he had taken it from Elmer. Lou confesses to Johnnie, who promises to protect him. Lou hangs Johnnie, making it look like a suicide.
Johnnie's death only makes the town more suspicious of Lou. Journalist and union organizer Joe Rothman (Elias Koteas) implies that he knows Lou killed Elmer and Joyce and suggests Lou leave town. Amy persuades him to elope and acquiesces to his desire to spank her roughly in bed. At first Lou is satisfied, but his homicidal urges begin to resurface and he contemplates killing Amy. One night, an alcoholic bum who Lou had previously brutalized (Brent Briscoe) visits Lou at home and reveals that he knows Lou killed Elmer and Joyce, and announces he expects $5000 in order to keep quiet. Lou asks him to come back in two weeks, the day that he and Amy plan to elope. That day, Lou beats Amy to death, then chases the bum down the street, accusing him of the crime. The bum is shot and killed by another deputy, Jeff Plummer (Matthew Maher).
The next morning, Plummer appears on Lou's porch to tell him that Maples committed suicide the previous night, heartbroken over Lou's crimes. Hendricks and Plummer try to get Lou to confess, but he cockily refuses. Then they show him a letter that Amy intended to give him before they left town to elope, in which Amy begs him to come clean about any trouble he is in. Lou is arrested and sent to an insane asylum. After a few weeks, a slick lawyer, Billy Boy Walker (Bill Pullman) has him released and drives him home. Knowing that the authorities probably have evidence against him — and that the evidence could only be Joyce, who did not die after all — Lou begins to plot his own death. Hendricks and Plummer bring Joyce, now able to walk but still bearing the scars of that brutal night, to Lou's house. She tells Lou that she refused to provide the authorities with any information because she loves him. Lou tells her he loves her, too — and then stabs her. Plummer opens fire, igniting the gasoline and alcohol Lou had spread around the house and causing an explosion that kills everyone inside.
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