Blood Simple.

Theaters: 12 October 1984

Streaming: 6 December 2022

Runtime: 96 minutes

Genre:  Crime – Drama — Mystery — Neo-Noir — Thriller

Els:  7.5/10

IMDB:  7.5/10

Rotten Tomatoes Critics:  95/100

Rotten Tomatoes Audience:  8.3/100

Metacritic Metascore:  84/100

Metacritic User Score:  8.0/10

Directed by: Joel Coen

Screenplay by: Joel and Ethan Coen

Music by:  Carter Burwell

Cast: John Getz, Francis McDormand, Dan Hedaya

Film Locations:  Austin and Round Rock, Texas

Budget:  $1.5 Million

Worldwide Box Office:  $2.7 Million

Blood Simple is a twisted Texas tale of a honky-tonk owner, a cheating wife, contract killings, misunderstandings, and violence.

This is the Coen brothers’ first movie along with the first major film for Barry Sonnenfeld and Francis McDormand. A classic neo-noir crime film setting the stage for Fargo and No Country for Old Men down the road.

The film was ranked at number 98 on AFI’s 2001 movie listing of the top 100 Thrills in American cinema. In case you are wondering Hitchcock’s 1960 film, Psycho was first.

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