But there's a killer inside … The movie is about a sociopath. Now "The Killer Inside Me" is a film, starring Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson. Lou Ford spends most of his time keeping the sickness inside him in check. Killer does its due diligence with regard to traditional noir tropes. Kubrick called “The Killer Inside Me,” which came out in 1952, “probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered.” One argument has it that Lou's depravity didn't have to be so specific, that this is an arty snuff film. The answer is yes: even with due warning, The Killer Inside Me is nauseatingly brutal, and probably impossible for some viewers to sit through. That's how Lou Ford, the protagonist of The Killer Inside Me is. That's why they are so dangerous. On the outside, he's a mild-mannered small town guy. Who was the guy who collected him, was he on behalf of the police presumably? Why did they let him go home then take his girlfriend to his home. Because they act like normal people and act like they have feelings but they're completely cold inside towards other people. Sociopaths don't love anybody. The Killer Inside Me R | 1h 39min | Crime , Drama | October 1976 (USA) Everyone figures Lou Ford, a small-town, Montana, deputy sheriff, to be a normal, good-old-boy kind of regular Joe. The other is that the logic of the story commits us to witness … Michael Winterbottom's The Killer Inside Me has all the elements of a film that I should have loved: a dusty West Texas landscape, the period setting of the 1950's, Jim Thompson's great pulp novel as its source material, the always underrated Casey Affleck in the leading role. Or he would have you believe. The Killer Inside Me is the story of Lou Ford, a small town sheriff who's a little slow and a little boring. One could argue that Winterbottom is simply following the letter of his source material, Jim Thompson’s deeply disturbing 1952 novel of the same name, which was filmed once before in the seventies. A controversial film --- ever since it made its debut at Sundance, critics have debated whether the sustained, close-up violence against women is necessary. I have just watched The Killer Inside Me film. I also suspect that Jim Thompson may have been that way as well. Could anyone please explain why they let Lou (the Killer policeman) out of the hospital to return home. Nowhere is this relationship more evident than in Thompson’s 1952 masterpiece The Killer Inside Me.