Cult Killer is a 2024 American crime thriller film directed by Jon Keeyes and written by Charles Burnley, starring Alice Eve and Antonio Banderas.
Premise
In order to discover the killer of her mentor, a young investigator forms an alliance with a serial killer.
Cast
Production
Written by Charles Burnley, it is directed by
Jon Keeyes. The film originally had the working title
The Last Girl. The film is produced by Jordan Yale Levine, Jordan Beckerman, and Michael J. Rothstein for Yale, as well as Richard Bolger and Conor Barry from Hail Mary Pictures, and Richard Clabaugh.
Casting
Alice Eve,
Shelley Hennig and
Antonio Banderas joined the cast in June 2022.
Filming
Principal photography took place in Ireland and was completed in September 2022.
Release
The film received a token theatrical release in the United States on January 19, 2024, before being made available to streaming services,
with very limited releases in other territories.
registered no box office domestically (United States and Canada), and in other territories, for a worldwide total of $78,474 at the box office.
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Critical response
Julian Roman of MovieWeb gave the film a rating of 3 out of 5 and wrote; Cult Killer is fervently gripping and even impressively appalling despite a major flaw. There's little backbone to flimsy investigative elements.
Giving the film a rating of 1.5 out of 4 Roger Moore of Movie Nation is unsatisfied and he wrote; A most peculiar Irish spree-killer thriller about the trauma of abuse, the monstrous sins of the super rich and some bizarre quirks of the Irish criminal justice system that one suspects are just clumsy inventions of the screenwriter.
Brian Orndorf of Blu-ray gave the film a rating of 6 out of 10 and wrote; Thespian commitment is much better than the B-movie deserves at times, and it’s a good reason to stick with “Cult Killer,” which is absolutely disturbing, but kept in play by interesting acting.
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