While there’s no doubt Hollywood will be pushing their horror-centered features come Halloween, we doubt there’ll be a more entertaining dark thriller than Dan Gilroy’s directorial debut. Nightcrawler follows Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a shady but passionate go-getter than discovers a talent with capturing horrific, news-worthy events before the police even arrive in a Robert Elswit-lit Los Angeles.
We said in our TIFF review it’s “a gem of a lean, mean film that never let’s its foot off the gas pedal with an iconic antihero in Jake Gyllenhaal’s Lou Bloom who might currently be tops on hardcore cinephiles’ Halloween costume lists come October. Even though there isn’t a conventional plot since the film is more concerned with delivering high octane suspense and extremely high (and warped) entertainment value, you won’t be able to get it out of your head.”
Also starring Rene Russo, Bill Paxton, and Riz Ahmed, the first clips, new stills and posters have landed, which can be seen below. For more on the film, check out two extensive conversations with Gyllenhaal here.
NIGHTCRAWLER is a pulse-pounding thriller set in the nocturnal underbelly of contemporary Los Angeles. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Lou Bloom, a driven young man desperate for work who discovers the high-speed world of L.A. crime journalism. Finding a group of freelance camera crews who film crashes, fires, murder and other mayhem, Lou muscles into the cut-throat, dangerous realm of nightcrawling — where each police siren wail equals a possible windfall and victims are converted into dollars and cents. Aided by Rene Russo as Nina, a veteran of the blood-sport that is local TV news, Lou thrives. In the breakneck, ceaseless search for footage, he becomes the star of his own story.
Nightcrawler opens on October 31st.