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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: ANCHOR BAY ENT.
EAN: 0013131632590
Feature: ALPHABET KILLER, THE (DVD MOVIE)
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Surround
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
MPN: DV16325
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 06, 2009
Running Time: 98 minutes
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Features:- ALPHABET KILLER, THE (DVD MOVIE)
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
10 year old girl found murdered and obsessed police detective megan paige suffers a mental breakdown while trying to solve the crime. The child killings resume 2 yrs later megans return to the investigation brings back her own flashbacks from the past. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 01/06/2009 Starring: Eliza Dushku Timothy Hutton Run time: 90 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com:
In the spirit of suspense films and television shows that focus on the sleuth’s attempt to make something out of senseless violence, Alphabet Killer is less about the murders it details than about the detective, Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku of Buffy the Vampire Slayer), who suffers mentally for studying brutality. Though opening scenes show young girls slayed at various wooded Rochester, New York crime scenes, the film quickly digresses into Megan’s stressed relationship with her co-detective lover, Kenneth Shine (Cary Elwes), who watches her obsession with the case spiral out of control. As murders continue, Megan gets psychic leads and is haunted by the ghosts of the wrongly deceased, but cannot solve the case. Megan’s diagnosis as a schizophrenic complicates matters greatly, and elevates the film into deeper story, especially when one senses, through subtle filmic clues, the creepiness of Megan’s therapist, Richard Ledge (Timothy Hutton). Some silly, dramatized enactments of mental illness on Dushku’s part do not help convince the viewer through fine acting, though one may be willing to look past this in hopes for pending potential spookiness. And the conundrum posed by Megan in her therapy group is engaging: manic people do often excel due to intuition, yet it is their ability to experience the world differently that gets them into trouble. Although the ghosts hallucinations are unconvincing, and Dushku probably could have used more research before she took the role, Alphabet Killer captivates because it shows how convoluted layers of reality can confuse even the sharpest detective. The disturbing thing about Alphabet Killer is not the film itself but the idea behind it: that the majority of what we know and trust is illusory, and that truth is discovered best through madness. --Trinie Dalton
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Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This movie might have been crafted into, at least, a fairly conventional cops & serial killer movie, but fails. It's a waste of a pretty decent supporting cast, including Timothy Hutton, who doesn't appear to get the kind and quality of work he deserves. There are many problems, including a silly answer to the whodunnit that you can see coming up the street way, way early. And then, once revealed, the plot gets even worse. Most problematic, I'm afraid, is Eliza Dushku's performance. Actors talk ... Read More
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This film is well acted and based on a real case from the 1970s. The film has an interesting theme - is being mentally sound a handicap in catching criminal deviants?
Eliza Dushku plays an Upstate NY detective with adult onset of schizophrenia. It brought Nietzsche to mind: when you look into the abyss (or monster), the abyss looks back at you. Did her overwhelming drive to capture mentally unbalanced criminals bring on the mental disorder? Or, did the disorder help her with her ... Read More
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The Alphabet Killer tracks an investigator (played by Dushku) who has the unique ability to become obsessed with cases until they are solved. When a young girl is murdered, she is convinced she can solve it. She quickly slides into a manic/maniac state: talking to herself, not sleeping, and obsessively studying the case. When time elapses without a break, she has what appears to be a nervous breakdown. She is diagnosed with schizophrenia and losses everything. A couple of years later, slowly recovering, ... Read More
Rating: -
The Alphabet Killer was surprisingly a good thriller. The production values were high, the cinematography was adequate though spotty and the actual "visions" of the dead children were bone-chilling. Instead of just being a straight up crime thriller where sanity draws the line between "good guys" and "bad guys,", we get a healthy dose of insanity from both killer and detective, which was a breath of fresh air and an interesting angle.
Naturally, it's always a pleasure to see The Dush, I've never ... Read More
Rating: -
Well, it's hard for me to give a movie more than three stars if I can figure out the ending (right down to the smallest detail) mid way through. This movie wanted to be good, it really did. It wanted to hang with the likes of se7en and Silence of the Lambs (given that's a really big "want"), but in the end this movie will dwindle into renter's obscurity.
The director, Rob Schmidt, does manage a few intriguing moments coupled with a touch of suspense, but if you really pay attention you'll solve ... Read More
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