Michael Winterbottom's "The Killer Inside Me", an adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1952 underground classic book, is a meaty tribute to pulp fiction (a work celebrated, among others, by Stanley Kubrick).
Rough sex, murder, blood, and gore withCasey Affleck -- a sadomasochistic Texas police deputy who beats his hooker girlfriend to death (Jessica Alba) and chokes to death Kate Hudson.
Scenes of ultraviolence are -- in a very Kubrickian touch -- all accompanied by the music of Mahler and Bellini (Norma).
We're just so happy they didn't go with Orff's Carmina Burana or Wagner.