Top cast:Lily Bird,Nicolas Cage,Julianne Nicholson
Director:Ryan Coogler
Genre:Thriller
Region:United States
Year:2016
Storyline:Riggs recommended calling in a bomb squad, and Murtaugh reluctantly agreed if things were kept quiet - but soon the neighborhood was blaring with sirens and swarming with police and fire/rescue squads.He left his own blood drippings on her cutting board.The worried young neighbor Alice (Anne Bruner), came out of her next-door house when she heard screams, and became the killer""s first victim inside her living room when she was stabbed in the chest with the butcher knife and blood spurted onto her neck(# 1 death).Nicknamed "Bloodthirsty Bessie" by her friends, the elderly woman is amusing herself by reading a "wonderful" murder novel about a man who married a woman while having six wives buried in the cellar.Other characters include a small-town sheriff, a drunken Irish gardener, a big-game hunter, and two Brazilian leopards.Plot SynopsisThe film opens with an upward-scrolling preface or itle-card disclaimer - to waylay expected fears that the film (considered unsuitable for the big-screen) would cause resentment (and possibly cause it to be banned for its offensive nature) because of its caricatured portrayal of a degenerate revivalist religious figure:"We believe that certain aspects of Revivalism can bear examination -- that the conduct of some revivalists makes a mockery of the traditional beliefs and practices of organized Christianity! We believe that everyone has a right to worship according o his conscience, but --Freedom of Religion is not license to abuse the faith of the people! However, due to the highly controversial nature of this film, we strongly urge you to prevent impressionable children from seeing it!"After the opening credits with a stark and stylized image of a tilted cross (and then a more traditional wooden cross casting a long dark shadow), a close-up of the first textual page of Sinclair Lewis"" novel is then portrayed, beginning with the first paragraph: "Chapter 1 - Elmer Gantry was drunk.