William Friedkin was an American filmmaker who made films across numerous genres throughout his directing career, which lasted over half a century. His earliest release goes back to 1967, and though he passed away in August 2023, he has one final movie scheduled to come out in 2023: The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, which was completed before his death, and will be a posthumous release.
It's got certain aspects of supernatural horror that make it feel like an Evil Dead movie but not as good, which is fitting, considering Sam Raimi was once attached to direct it. The Guardian may have some appeal for those who like so-bad-they're-good horror movies, but anyone hoping to experience something genuinely scary will be let down.
Broadly speaking, it's a comedy/musical movie, but then feels like it crosses into numerous genres, given the entire movie is really just a series of skits that parody various types of movies popular in Hollywood at the time. It's messy and chaotic, but in its own strange way, it foreshadowed Friedkin's chameleonic ability to make movies in just about every genre under the sun.
14 'The Hunted' The Hunted doesn't mess around, with its simplicity inevitably being one of its greatest strengths. The premise is that there's a highly-trained killer in the wilderness, on the run after murdering two hunters, with a former Special Operations instructor getting assigned to track this killer down and apprehend him.
12 'Rules of Engagement' Neither one of 2000's best movies nor one of the year's worst by any means, Rules of Engagement is just pretty good, and will hopefully prove engaging to most viewers. It's a war/legal drama movie, mostly revolving around a court-martial that takes place after a Colonel is accused of ordering his men to kill several demonstrators outside the U.S. Embassy in Yemen.Samuel L.
It has some of the broadest comedy of any William Friedkin movie, and it largely balances crime and comedy well throughout. It also has a hugely impressive cast that includes Peter Falk, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands, and Paul Sorvino, and it's overall decent, albeit not nearly one of the best crime-themed films in Friedkin's body of work.
7 'Cruising' Cruising was a hugely controversial and divisive movie upon release, and it's taken some years for the film to be reevaluated and given the respect it deserves. It stars Al Pacino as a police officer who goes undercover in New York City's gay underground scene to find the identity of a serial killer who's been targeting gay men in the city.
5 'Killer Joe' Returning to the crime genre with a vengeance in 2011, William Friedkin, then in his 70s, made a surprisingly good film that ranks among his best: Killer Joe. It's an extremely dark movie about a cop/hitman getting involved with a family's exceedingly dramatic life and agreeing to commit a murder for them, only for things to devolve into chaos.
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