That was an excellent one.

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

( In Cold Blood (film) (1967) ) encapsulates everything scary I remember from the 1960s when I was young.And it's all black and white like it was in the sixties, right?The actual event happened not far from here, movie recalls the fear each time I view it, similar to whenever I read about a tornado that hit around here something like 60 years ago, same chills.In fact in some of the ICB scenes, I remember being in those places at some time when I was alive.Before I could read, when life was like ICB in the places I ever went, I thought every highway sign said Coffee on it, speed signs, turn signs, overhead directional signs, yield signs, stop signs, do not enter signs, one way signs, cliff signs, all said Coffee. Neon "PAY TOLL" spelled neon "Drink Coffee", coffee right here, coffee.It was impossible to walk down the street and back in those days and to not be reminded of Coffee for some reason. Or was it Coffeyville?Back then all the signs said Coffee but who knows if that wasn't just a finger boner or autocorrect boner. I do not know, I was too young.For those reasons I hate everything about ICB and therefore give it 10 because I hate it so much. It's so real, it's scary, 10, automatic, case dismissedThat's confusing enough and not too confusing.Also a teacher at my HS was cast as a constable or something in ICB. I'm sorry now I tormented him.Maybe not the best movie ever but doggone scary and definitely well above the 90th percentile. The scariest, most visceral depiction of a perception of reality I am able to recall without thinking harder than I prefer to do.I always shudder thinking about "Psycho" for the same reasons, also

There's something about older movies like this and "A Streetcar Named Desire" that feels real. I don't know if it's the way the films are shot, if it's the acting, or if it's the black-and-white color-scheme. Whatever it is, I like it, and I want more of it. Covering a truly disturbing crime like the Clutter murders, and going so far as to film in the house where they were murdered is an insane attention to detail. That's something I'd expect Kubrick to do, it just adds another layer of terror. The acting is incredible, these don't feel like actors playing people, it feels like they are the people, if that makes sense. Even though their crime is deplorable, the movie does a great job of making them relatable. You feel like this whole thing could've been avoided had things gone differently.

Perry Smith (Robert Blake) and Dick Hickock (Scott Wilson) are life long criminals. They plan to rob a safe in the Clutter family farm in Holcomb, Kansas. They find no money and massacres the family. They go on the run first intending to get into Mexico. The guys are caught. Police detective Alvin Dewey (John Forsythe) leads the investigation. The duo are interrogated until they confess and then convicted.It's fittingly a black and white movie. It is not colorful or sensationalized, and the tense atmosphere is elevated. These are cold hearted killers. Director Richard Brooks gets nominated for his faithful interpretation of Truman Capote's book. The two leads Robert Blake and Scott Wilson are great especially Blake as the damaged and deranged Perry. The killings are left to the last part of the movie and it's very haunting.

Richard Brooks's In Cold Blood shows a film interpretation of Capote's book. I feel that he depicts Dick and Perry accurately as described in Capote's words. Both characters appear the same to me in the In Cold Blood film as they did in the book where Dick shows confidence in his actions but in reality comes across not as battle-hardened as he believes while Perry holds a troubled past that molds his criminal caricature. Dick walks around in the film dressed in business attire using blank checks to get by in life capturing Dick's smooth personality. Nevertheless, Brooks's film shows Dick's pathetic nature when talking with Dick in the privacy of an empty room as he stresses over Perry's "nonsense". Perry first appears in the film as a delinquent in jail talking about a heist that will set him for life. His character's outfit looks like a stereotype of a high school delinquent with a leather jacket, greasy black hair, and long jeans. However, throughout the film the director reveals Perry as an innocent person with a troubled past containing violence and trauma that leads him to evolve into a killer. While characterizing Dick and Perry through their appearance and actions, Brooks also builds the story through the sequence of scenes accompanied with background musics to signify the type of scene approaching. The scenes sequence in an order that builds a short back story for Dick and Perry and leads on to when both end up in death row with a few glimpses to effectively explain later scenes. For example, the audience does not get to see the murder of the Clutter family underway until after Dick and Perry head to jail. These glimpses into the past such as the murder and even when Perry remembers his troublesome childhood help explain the story and build an emotional, logical connection with the audience. The music accompaniment helps depict these scenes as people associate music and tones with certain emotions. For example, part way through the movie Dick and Perry travel down the highway and the music begins to speed up to make the audience aware of Perry's anxiety as he remembers his motorcycle accident. Also, at death row the music creates a rhythmic beat as one of the fellow inmates walks towards his sentence at "the corner" as the others locked away watch from their cells. Through certain elements such as the sequence of the film's scenes and characterization of Dick and Perry on both an emotional and physical level, I believe Brook's cinematic version of In Cold Blood provides an insightful and clear look into the killers' experience before, during, and after the Clutter family massacre.