Sentence examples for killer in which from inspiring English sources

Theater for a New Audience has revived Ionesco's "The Killer," in which an Everyman tries to track down the source of evil that is leaving people dead in an otherwise idyllic place.

He tackled destitution and unemployment in The Man Without a Past and Drifting Clouds, criminality in Ariel and Lights in the Dusk, suicide in I Hired a Contract Killer, in which Jean-Pierre Léaud, unable to kill himself, pays a hitman to do the job.

From South Korea we've had the hammer-wielding antics of Oldboy, whose star ate a live baby octopus, while from Japan we've had Takashi Miike's Ichi The Killer, in which a severed face hits a wall and slides down it – in one of the film's lighter moments.

He also starred in the 2008 TV movie, Kung Fu Killer, in which he played a Chinese martial arts master very similar to his Kung Fu series "Caine" persona his character in this movie named "White Crane", and mostly referred to or addressed as "Crane", frequently spoken with a sort of accent that minimized the R sound.

Well, they do have those league tables for serial killers (in which Team GB GB GB!'s is a contender), so perhaps for 2012.

Despite its contemporary milieu and restive camerawork, "Rapt" brings to mind classic films noirs like "Laura" and "The Killers" in which somehow physically absent characters come into focus through investigations.

I had Lee Marvin on my mind last week after discussing Don Siegel's 1964 film "The Killers," in which he plays an updated and analytical version of one of Ernest Hemingway's sardonic hit men.

When I'm in the chair, I sit there thinking, I wonder what they're doing in China right now?" Between speeches, there are quorum calls, time killers in which a Senate clerk calls the roll at the rate of one name every few minutes.

According to his biographer, Gail Levin, he was inspired to paint his most famous picture, Nighthawks (1942), after reading Ernest Hemingway's story The Killers, in which two hitmen arrive at a small-town diner to murder a burnt-out prizefighter for some undisclosed offence.

Dennehy also appeared in such television movies as To Catch a Killer (1992), in which he portrayed serial killer John Wayne Gacy, and Fail Safe (2001).

William Friedkin ("The Exorcist," "The French Connection") directs "Killer Joe," in which a young drug dealer, Chris, whose mother steals his stash, has to find $6,000 fast.