Tagline
Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Murder
Elevator pitch
The Incident meets Reservoir Dogs
Summary
A few people late at night in a remote diner are taken hostage... and it only gets worse from there.
Trailers
Personnel
- Director & Writer: Mark H. Young
Cast
- Michael Madsen
- Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Gryphon)
- Harold Perrineau (Jr) (Sabotage, Oz, The Matrix Reloaded)
- Kevin Gage (Con Air, Heat, Blow)
- Jake Busey (Starship Troopers, The Frighteners)
- Danny Trejo
Info
Opinion
With Madsen's recent passing, I decided to find a few of his films I hadn't seen yet. Turns out with him doing 8 to 15(!) flicks a year, it wasn't that hard.
This is a low budget thriller where Madsen probably comes closest to literally reprising his Mr Blonde character from Reservoir Dogs.
Like The Incident, we see that while the bad guy is bad, no doubt about it, the good people were not as good as they first seemed. The Killing Jar doesn't pull it off as well as The Incident (and adds a lot more violence) but it does give a chance for the actors to shine, Harold Perrineau impresses in particular.
Movie
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- Tubi - The Killing Jar (2010) *
- Plex - The Killing Jar (2010)
- Mercado Play - La Cena Mortal (2010) Spanish or Portuguese audio only (that site now blocking my primary browser? maybe because of the ad blocker)