Anamorph (2007)
Average Rating: 4.6/10
Reviews Counted: 27
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 20
Thin on plot but heavy on academic references, Anamorph proves more derivative than terrifying.
Average Rating: 5/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 6
Thin on plot but heavy on academic references, Anamorph proves more derivative than terrifying.
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A haunted New York City detective must delve into his dark past in order to stop a serial killer whose highly artistic modus operandi seems uncannily similar to that of a madman who stalked the city streets five years prior. When reclusive detective Stan Aubray (Willem Dafoe) gunned down the man suspected of being the "Uncle Eddie" murderer, he thought his nightmare had come to an end. But now a new crop of victims has begun to turn up, each bearing the distinctive mark of the maniac whom
Apr 16, 2008 Wide
Dec 9, 2008
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Cast
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Willem Dafoe
Det. Stan Aubray -
Scott Speedman
Carl Uffner -
Clea DuVall
Sandy Strickland -
James Rebhorn
Chief Lewellyn Brainard -
Peter Stormare
Blair Collet -
Amy Carlson
Alexandra Fredericks -
Yul Vázquez
Jorge "George" Ruiz -
Deborah Harry
Neighbor -
Don Harvey
Killer -
Samantha MacIvor
Crystal -
Paz de la Huerta
Young Woman -
Desiree Casado
Teenage Check Out Girl -
Robert C. Kirk
Heavy-Set Detective -
Robin Goldsmith
Stone-Faced Detective -
Marcia Haufrecht
Diner Waitress -
Monique Curnen
Female Student -
Paul Lazar
Medical Examiner -
Lucy Martin
Uptight Woman -
Mick Foley
Antique Store Owner -
Sharrieff Pugh
Ect Technician -
Ashley Springer
Actor Jeff Sarno -
Gary Ray Bugarcic
Officer #1 -
Amir Arison
Profiler -
Elizabeth West
Reporter #1 -
Stephen Daniels
Reporter #2 -
Edward Hibbert
Gallery Owner -
Barbara Sicuranza
Forensic Technician -
Robert G. Mckay
Detective #1 -
Michael Buscemi
Detective #2 -
Virginia Wing
Board Member -
Jordan Charney
Moderator -
Martin Pfefferkorn
AA Member -
Manny Siverio
Stunt Coordinator -
Eugene Harrison
Stan Stunt Double -
Erik M. Solky
Killer Stunt Double -
Billy Anagnos
Stunt Driver -
Paul McClure
Stand in for Mr. Dafoe -
Jeff Chena
Stand in for Mr. Speedm... -
Yul Vásquez
Jorge "George" Ruiz
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All Critics (27) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (20) | DVD (7)
Director H.S. Miller thinks he's made something broodingly visionary when you're more likely to be aesthetically shaken up by one of Mad magazine's Fold-Ins.
Top CriticA serial-killer flick told like an art lecture, Anamorph manages to be gruesome yet dull.
The long shadow of David Fincher's Seven falls on Anamorph, a moody, ultimately unexciting thriller.
Wears its influences...a little too heavily on its sleeve. But it does effectively convey a lingering sense of dread that can't be easily dismissed.
The serial killer in Anamorph shows promise, even if some of his best moves are derivative. The same is true of the film's director.
The atmosphere created by director H.S. Miller is gothic, tortured, stylized yet tinged with a classicist's sense of composition, symmetry and, yes, perspective.
Creepy, turgid and cerebral mind-game serial killer flick.
No more interesting than any standard episode of "CSI" or any of the other myriad of cop-centric whodunits polluting our airwaves.
O roteiro carregado de clichés desperdiça o que até poderia ser uma premissa interessante, ao passo que os esforços estilísticos de Miller soam patéticos, como uma imitação barata dos trabalhos de David Fincher.
Anamorph dances around ponderous issues and grotesque scenery but fails to really engage, startle or disturb.
A visual treat for Dafoe fans that goes well beyond the conventional horror genre into questions of reality and fantasy and how, or if, we tell the difference.
Sure, it's better than 88 Minutes [what isn't?] but it's still pretty pointless, with unclear exposition and murky plot developments.
Weirdly positioning serial killing as a depraved form of creative expression and the victims as signature works of art, Anamorph has the odd effect of simultaneous repulsion and fascination.
A movie about a premise that metamorphoses into twaddle.
On a scale of one to Se7en, Miller's doomed rip barely rates.
This serial killer movie is nothing but a copycat.
The unfortunate fact is that it's more than a little dull when it isn't preposterous.
An academic thriller likely to engage only avid collectors of serial-killer flicks.
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I like it when movies let you draw your own conclusions, but in this movie, the leads are just so obscure, and the killer's motives only seems to be to make a confusing movie for the movie-going public out there. Saying that, I probably would watch it again, just to see if it makes sense the second time.