An academic thriller likely to engage only avid collectors of serial-killer flicks.
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04/18/08
Anamorph (2008)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:6
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: Thin on plot but heavy on academic references, Anamorph proves more derivative than terrifying.
Theatrical Release:Apr 18, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: Willem Dafoe (THE ENGLISH PATIENT) plays an NYPD detective who grapples with a string of unusual serial murders, perpetrated by a killer who fashions himself an artist. As the detective... [More]
Starring: Willem Dafoe, Scott Speedman, Peter Stormare, Clea DuVall
Director: H.S. Miller
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Reviews for Anamorph
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.
07/10/08
No more interesting than any standard episode of "CSI" or any of the other myriad of cop-centric whodunits polluting our airwaves.
12/04/08
A movie about a premise that metamorphoses into twaddle.
04/21/08
A pale imitation of David Fincher's Seven.
04/16/08
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.
04/18/08
Sure, it's better than 88 Minutes [what isn't?] but it's still pretty pointless, with unclear exposition and murky plot developments.
05/01/08
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.
05/02/08
Top CriticThis serial killer movie is nothing but a copycat.
04/18/08
Anamorph dances around ponderous issues and grotesque scenery but fails to really engage, startle or disturb.
06/19/08
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.
05/10/08
On a scale of one to Se7en, Miller's doomed rip barely rates.
04/18/08
The long shadow of David Fincher's Seven falls on Anamorph, a moody, ultimately unexciting thriller.
04/18/08
A serial-killer flick told like an art lecture, Anamorph manages to be gruesome yet dull.
04/18/08
Top CriticA grimy, ugly film about death and the living dead in New York City, without the redeeming ambition of Seven or even the cultural commentary of Summer of Sam.
04/16/08
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.
04/18/08
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.
04/27/08
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.
04/18/08
Top CriticSuspense is something foreign to Anamorph.
04/16/08
Though this snuff flick takes its title from an asexual stage of reproduction in the life of a fungus, don't expect to find any fungi, I mean fun guys, in this lame excuse for graphic displays of vivisection.
04/16/08
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January 17, 2009:
EMarketingMag.com: 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. 
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December 18, 2008:
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.
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