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Adam Wingard’s acclaimed serial killer road movie,
A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE, is set for a DVD & Blu-ray release in the UK, Mar 19, 2012

In big Hollywood movie, serial killers take a few standard forms. There’s the erudite, educated man of letters, well versed in the classical arts, with the ability to quote the great philosophers as he eats your brain. There’s also the swivel-eyed lunatic, obvious and exposed, unable to hide his madness to such an extent that it becomes hard to believe that no one arrested him at birth thus preventing a future spate of horrific slayings.

A Horrible Way To Die takes a different path. One in which a shut-down killer dispatches victims in a flat, emotionless fashion that seems somehow crushingly real. The Hannibal Lector characters that populate the movies fascinate because the disconnect between insanity and outward respectability is so profound. The cookie-cutter lunatic is a carnival grotesque. We can revel in his madness; his walls made invisible with newspaper cuttings and satanic graffiti; his mannequins and dolls heads ticking creepy boxes; his outwardly expressed internal dialogue a comfortable check list featuring fear of women,separation anxieties, mother love and self-pity.

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But the killer in A Horrible Way To Die appears to be different. He seems to echo the stories we hear in the tabloids about the very occasional real life ghouls whose crimes are amplified by the oxygen of lurid publicity. Those guys who seemed normal, kept themselves to themselves or had wives, daughters and good friends down the pub. The psychos who are adept at sorting their lives into separate compartments. The ones that seem capable of kindness to some and sadism to others. You know, the really scary ones you don’t notice. Just relax…