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A Horrible Way to Die
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  • Summary: Forget everything you’ve ever seen in a serial killer movie and get ready for the chiller that stunned festival audiences around the world: Notorious murderer Garrick Turrell has escaped from police custody and resumed his killing spree. His former girlfriend Sarah is a recovering alcoholic trying to put her life back together in a new town with a new man. Her past continues to haunt her. And now her ex-boyfriend is leaving a trail of slaughter in his hunt to find her. (Anchor Bay Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 1 out of 5
  1. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Aug 18, 2011
    80
    Viewed simply as a horror movie, A Horrible Way to Die is diverting; viewed as commentary on our willingness to tune out evil for the sake of emotional connection, it's devastating.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Sam Adams
    Aug 17, 2011
    58
    The credibility Bowen and Amy Seimetz, as his fearful ex-girlfriend, bring to their roles nearly legitimizes the movie's underlying silliness.
  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Kalvin Henely
    Aug 15, 2011
    38
    The adventitious use of loud and strange blasts of music may theoretically make sense to heighten the film's creepiness, but here, like everything else, they don't exactly make a perfect fit and serve more as the final nail in the coffin for the film's lack of tonal cohesion.

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