The reason why Robert Mitchum's in Killer in the Family worked so well is Robert's eyes, the shape, the dilation in the pupils set against a face made of stone, in this stolid almost turgid performance , we get stoic reactions against the most horrifying evil doings ever and that is why its so creepy, it stays with the anyone who has experienced it forever for it its the vast contradistinction between Mitchum's undertones as he downplays these incredibly heinous acts that ring only in our darkliest fancies as some raving lunatic runs about half crazed with wild eyes committing them, not someone who looks like your everyday father with indifference in his mien that appears to have come home after a hard day of work in a 9-5 office or farming job it would be the same to watch Mitchum milk a cow all day or kill a bunch of people , his reaction would not change, that is what is so eerie and echoes hauntingly into the offing scarily, verily...
Review of A Killer in the Family
