A film we have not covered here on Bloody Disgusting is Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler, which stars Donnie Darko fav Jake Gyllenhaal as a self-made journalist in a very dark and violent social commentary on the “American Dream.”
The buzz out of the Toronto International Film Festival is that not only is the film right up Bloody Disgusting’s alley, but that Gyllenhaal could be in the running for an Oscar.
We caught wind of the hype and wanted to push it on over to you. Open Road is releasing in theaters October 31, so maybe it truly is the perfect movie for Halloween night?
“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.“