The Alphabet Killer

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The Alphabet Killer

R,

2008,

1h 38m,

Crime/

Drama/

Mystery & Thriller/

Horror

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13%

8 Reviews

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23%

5,000+ Ratings

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13%

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8 Reviews

23%

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5,000+ Ratings

Former cop Megan Price (Eliza Dushku) investigates a murder similar to one that drove her crazy.

Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out

Dec 10, 2008

3/6

[Eliza Dushku's] commitment to the material is worthier than the cheesy ghost effects of decomposing children that the filmmakers felt the need to add.

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Gary Goldstein

Los Angeles Times

Nov 14, 2008

2/5

It's too bad there was no way around the story's inherent deficit since this effectively unsettling film, directed by Rob Schmidt, chugs along quite well for a while.

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Luke Y. Thompson

Village Voice

Nov 13, 2008

The Alphabet Killer may well make enough money to justify a Part II.

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Pablo Villaça

Cinema em Cena

Apr 10, 2009

1/5

Chega a impressionar que, em meio a tantos elementos desastrosos, a atuação de Eliza Dushku (que também co-produziu o longa) seja inegavelmente a pior coisa do filme.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

Jan 31, 2009

4.5/10

The Alphabet Killer suffers from the same symptoms as Passengers: both have an unintentionally feeble-minded character who lazily investigates a mystery while the plot itself seems dull and poorly developed.

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Rossiter Drake

San Francisco Examiner

Jan 13, 2009

2/4

Although Schmidt and Malloy have devoted meticulous attention to Megan's manhunt, which is engrossing and briskly paced for the better part of 85 minutes, their final act seems less like a canny trick than a copout.

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Nov 26, 2017

Apparently most others who reviewed this film, fail to realize that a standard viewer doesn't read as many books and watch as many movies as we do (assuming they do anyway.... I could be wrong here). This film was very exciting and interesting. Just because we realized Hutton's character was the suspect before the credits rolled didn't make it a flop. Give credit where it's due and stop being so full of yourselves. Worth the watch.... check it out.

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Sep 2, 2017

A great story ideas, but it needed another draft or two. Too many loose ends. Dushku overacted and there was not a great amount of screen presence in the actors.

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Theodore P

Jan 16, 2017

It feels like it couldn't decide rather to be a supernatural ghost story or a true crime drama thriller and in the process ends up failing at both.

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Rob Schmidt

Director

Eliza Dushku

Megan Paige

Cary Elwes

Capt. Kenneth Shine

Timothy Hutton

Richard Ledge

Tom Malloy

Stephen Harper

Michael Ironside

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Synopsis

Former cop Megan Price (Eliza Dushku) investigates a murder similar to one that drove her crazy.

Director: Rob Schmidt
Producer: Tom Malloy, Isen Robbins, Aimee Schoof, Russell Terlecki
Screenwriter: Tom Malloy
Distributor: Anchor Bay Entertainment
Production Co: Intrinsic Value Films
Rating: R (Language|Some Violence)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 7, 2008, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 8, 2013
Runtime: 1h 38m

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