Texas Killing Fields

Texas Killing Fields

Scary because it’s true

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Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on April 2012

Police procedural from Ami Canaan Mann (daughter of Michael) is scary because it’s true. Title refers to a bayou body dump on the outskirts of Texas City, Texas. The film is nicely atmospheric, and the acting is uniformly good despite poorly fleshed-out characters. Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain and Jeffrey Dean Morgan are the cops, and Chloe Grace Moretz is a young girl criminally neglected by her skanky mother during a spree of disappearances of young girls. So while it’s engaging to a point, the graceless editing makes it hard to follow, and it leaves you with a feeling of missed opportunity.