#suspect zero

Scream Queen - Carrie-Anne Moss

Neverwas (2005)

I'm a bit slow in the posting of this I would have done it Tuesday but didn't get the chance and this is a part 1 being a couple of other things are apparently be shipped separately from this, but.. this is the majority of our Amazon Prime Day(s) purchases! we looked at a bunch of stuff but didn't get anything gaming or for the house but they had tons of movies on sale for cheap! we got Suspect Zero, The Fall Guy and Kindergarten Cop on 4K and then The Flintstones,The Skeleton Key, The Land Before Time and the 2 movie set of Conan on Blu-ray! which I think was awesome! If you are going to get stuff try and get it when its on sale and cheap! Now we just gotta wait for ones that were missing to arrive. but that is what we picked up for Amazon Prime Day(s)

never occurred to me to use the phrase “eerily tranquil” amazon but thank you

At least he didn’t kill in between!

“Suspect Zero" is about a killer (Sir Ben Kingsley) who stalks serial killers. His pursuers are a pair of FBI agents (Aaron Eckhart and Carrie-Anne Moss) who suspect that he may actually be a former agent turned vigilante. Despite its blood-soaked premise, director E. Elias Merhige, visiting the Screenland Theatre in August to promote the film, insisted he didn't want to make a serial killer movie. "I just wanted to go off-road with it and take it to a different place, just give people a meaty psychological thriller and still be entertaining and exciting," he said. "I really wanted to make it more as a meditation on justice in a post-9/11 world where, is it really clear there's good and evil? I don't think so. I think that there's this big fat gray area where it's almost like to catch the monster you almost have to become the monster." To put his viewers into the minds of his characters, Merhige uses techniques similar to those of his 1991 $33,000 debut feature "Begotten," a silent, black-and-white creation story that defies easy classification. There are interludes where he breaks into flashbacks that are presented using battered film stocks, giving the scenes an eerie, archival feel. They often force viewers to reach their own conclusions. "It's sort of like the Dead Sea Scrolls," he said. "There are these areas where it's just gaps and voids, and voids interest me more than texts. What is in that nothing space between these two pieces of text? That really drives my imagination." Another customization that Merhige and screenwriter Billy Ray ("Shattered Glass") brought to the story, which was originally written by Zak Penn ("X-Men 2"), was giving O'Ryan (Kingsley) the ability to sense other serial killers' actions through remote viewing. O'Ryan develops his gift through a fictional FBI program. Merhige has explored the subject for more than the scope of the current feature. "I'm actually doing a documentary that's going to be part of the DVD, where I'm interviewing the original guys that started this program, you know when the government initiated it," he said. "I was taken through a session by Dr. Hal Puthoff, one of the original program directors of Stargate, which was this top-secret remote viewing unit from the 1970s, '80s and early '90s. The hairs on the back of my neck went up after I realized that I had got within 75 percent of what the target was." In addition to helming the Oscar-nominated "Shadow of the Vampire," Merhige is a stage director who has presented everything from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to Henrik Ibsen plays. He has also taught classes for actors wanting to learn how to perform for the screen. "It's a way for me to very passionately and in an unbridled manner give something back to people that are finding their way through the art form and to also help give them short cuts," he said. "And yes, I learn from them. I learned a great deal from watching them go through the process." "Vampire" is a speculative film about the making of F.W. Murnau's 1922 horror film "Nosferatu," so it's not surprising Merhige is a silent movie buff. He expressed astonishment to discover that film pioneers as diverse as Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and Walt Disney all came from Kansas and Missouri. "I'm going to have to move to Kansas," he said. "I keep hearing a new thing that I didn't know about Kansas. You look at Buster Keaton, Walt Disney. They're people that transformed cinema." MELISSA MOSELEY Director E. Elias Merhige on the set of `Suspect Zero' SHANE KEYSER/The Kansas City StarE. Elias Merhige, director of the psychological thriller "Suspect Zero," visited the Sceenland in Kansas City last month.

Benjamin O'Ryan - Suspect Zero (2004)