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Released
2010 · FILM

The Killer Inside Me

A small‑town deputy sheriff struggles to preserve his respected reputation as his hidden sociopathic urges begin to surface, threatening to destroy the community he outwardly protects.

Nobody Sees It Coming

Runtime
109 min
CrimeDramaMystery

Synopsis

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is regarded as a respected and seemingly considerate figure in his small west Texas town, known for his patience and outward thoughtfulness. While some residents find him slow or unexciting, no more negative opinions are generally expressed about him. However, Lou harbors a secret he refers to as his "sickness"—a condition that reveals him to be a brilliant yet disturbed sociopathic sadist.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 25

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Mags ArnoldShot by Marcel ZyskindScored by Joel CadburyDesigned by Rob Simons

Box Office

2010 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$4.1M

Budget$13.0M
Worldwide gross$4.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening week (7-day): $18K

Peak 1 theaters

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