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The Alphabet Killer (2008)

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Wrong Turn director Rob Schmidt takes the helm for this thriller inspired by the grim true-life exploits of an alphabet-obsessed New York serial killer and starring Timothy Hutton, Cary Elwes, Eliza Dushku, and Michael Ironside. When Rochester, NY-based police investigator Megan Paige (Dushku) discovers that ten year old Carla Castillo was brutally raped and murdered in nearby Churchville, she becomes convinced that the department is dealing with a serial killer. Paige is a driven detective

R, 1 hr. 30 min.

Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense

Tom Malloy

Jan 6, 2009

Anchor Bay Entertainment

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All Critics (8) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (6) | DVD (4)

It's too bad there was no way around the story's inherent deficit since this effectively unsettling film, directed by Rob Schmidt, chugs along quite well for a while.

November 14, 2008 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | Comment
Los Angeles Times
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The Alphabet Killer may well make enough money to justify a Part II.

November 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comments (2)
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Chega a impressionar que, em meio a tantos elementos desastrosos, a atuação de Eliza Dushku (que também co-produziu o longa) seja inegavelmente a pior coisa do filme.

April 10, 2009 Comment
Cinema em Cena

The Alphabet Killer suffers from the same symptoms as Passengers: both have an unintentionally feeble-minded character who lazily investigates a mystery while the plot itself seems dull and poorly developed.

January 31, 2009 Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | Comment (1)
NYC Movie Guru

A decently gripping psychological thriller, loosely based on a series of 1970s 'double initial' murders, that earns its stripes as part of a nutty Eliza Dushku double-dip, alongside the recent Nobel Son.

January 28, 2009 Full Review Source: Shared Darkness | Comment
Shared Darkness

Although Schmidt and Malloy have devoted meticulous attention to Megan's manhunt, which is engrossing and briskly paced for the better part of 85 minutes, their final act seems less like a canny trick than a copout.

January 13, 2009 Comment (1)
San Francisco Examiner

[Eliza Dushku's] commitment to the material is worthier than the cheesy ghost effects of decomposing children that the filmmakers felt the need to add.

December 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comments (2)
Time Out New York

...a big problem is the preposterousness of the mystery's solution...

November 17, 2008 Comment (1)
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Predictable and boring, this movie was stuck somewhere between a horror film and a crime thriller. Even though it may have been loosely based around true life events, as always I think Schmidt's poetic authority as director fabricated the more silly elements of what could have been a really good story. I knew who the

September 9, 2011
theunknownhobo
Unknown Hobo

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Megan Paige: Mostly the job is to ask questions. The frustrating part, the part that drives you crazy, is that the people you really want to talk to are dead. This is how bad this movie is. No when I'm about to go to the bathroom I say, "I'm going to go take an Alphabet Killer." This movie is horrible. I couldn't

July 31, 2011
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Melvin White

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