A psychological-thriller in the haunting tradition of films like Taxi Driver and Monster, The Grief Tourist takes us into the chilling labyrinth of a man’s dark hobby and his even darker mind. JIM TAHANA doesn’t leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you’ll sense his hunger - the […]
Dark Tourist (2012) | |
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Rating: 4.9/10 (702 votes) Director: Suri Krishnamma Writer: Frank John Hughes Stars: Melanie Griffith, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Michael Cudlitz, Suzanne Quast Runtime: 84 min Rated: R Genre: Drama, Thriller Released: 23 Aug 2013 |
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Plot: A psychological-thriller in the haunting tradition of films like Taxi Driver and Monster, The Grief Tourist takes us into the chilling labyrinth of a man's dark hobby and his even darker ... |
A psychological-thriller in the haunting tradition of films like Taxi Driver and Monster, The Grief Tourist takes us into the chilling labyrinth of a man’s dark hobby and his even darker mind. JIM TAHANA doesn’t leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you’ll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the searing, unexplained void within him. Jim obsesses over the hobby that has been part of his DNA since he was a young boy: grief tourism - the act of traveling with the intent to visit places of tragedy or disaster. Every year his week-long vacations from work are spent going to grief tourist locations in the lives of different serial killers he is fascinated with. This years obsession is Carl Marznap, a mass murder from New Orleans, Louisiana. But this trip is no ordinary vacation as Jim’s rancid sexual impulses and weakening grip on reality deteriorate into a violent…