In "The Infernal Machine," Guy Pearce plays a reclusive author lured out of hiding by an obsessive fan. Maybe his character was written in response to cinephiles demanding more leading roles from the star of "Memento." In the past, Pearce has seemed content to inhabit supporting roles, like when he donned old-age makeup for "Prometheus" or played the villain in "Iron Man 3." Occasionally, you'll see him take on a starring role, though, as he did in the Australian Western "The Proposition" or in the sci-fi actioner "Lockout" (that movie that ran into trouble with John Carpenter for its plot similarities to "Escape from New York.")
"The Infernal Machine" puts Pearce front and center for a film that co-stars Alice Eve, Jeremy Davies, and Alex Pettyfer. Writer-director Andrew Hunt has adapted the film from "The Hilly Earth Society" episode of The Truth Podcast, written by Louis Kornfeld. Check out our...
"The Infernal Machine" puts Pearce front and center for a film that co-stars Alice Eve, Jeremy Davies, and Alex Pettyfer. Writer-director Andrew Hunt has adapted the film from "The Hilly Earth Society" episode of The Truth Podcast, written by Louis Kornfeld. Check out our...
- 9/23/2022
- by Joshua Meyer
- Slash Film
The Infernal Machine Review: Guy Pearce Anchors A Twisty Thriller That Can't Quite Stick The Landing
For better and worse, there's more than meets the eye in "The Infernal Machine."
The ever-reliable Guy Pearce shines as the haunted Bruce Cogburn, a reclusive writer hiding out in Southern California over twenty years after first hitting the bestseller lists for his breakthrough novel, "The Infernal Machine." The traumatic reasons why he's shunned the world and never written a single follow-up to such an influential novel remain at the forefront of the story, thanks to the chilling cold open narration of a (seemingly unrelated) decades-old crime, and especially the disturbing deluge of letters sent to Cogburn from an obsessive fan. Pushed far enough to actually call up the mysterious William DuKent and leave a polite-but-firm message asking to be left alone, the script steadily turns the screws until the hidden danger of Cogburn's fixated and unseen admirer practically fills each frame.
Written and directed by Andrew Hunt and based...
The ever-reliable Guy Pearce shines as the haunted Bruce Cogburn, a reclusive writer hiding out in Southern California over twenty years after first hitting the bestseller lists for his breakthrough novel, "The Infernal Machine." The traumatic reasons why he's shunned the world and never written a single follow-up to such an influential novel remain at the forefront of the story, thanks to the chilling cold open narration of a (seemingly unrelated) decades-old crime, and especially the disturbing deluge of letters sent to Cogburn from an obsessive fan. Pushed far enough to actually call up the mysterious William DuKent and leave a polite-but-firm message asking to be left alone, the script steadily turns the screws until the hidden danger of Cogburn's fixated and unseen admirer practically fills each frame.
Written and directed by Andrew Hunt and based...
- 9/20/2022
- by Jeremy Mathai
- Slash Film
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