monkeyboy12121-414-225890 Well, i did see the trailer for this film quite a while ago and i thought, wow this looks good. Only recently did i watch the film and I wish i didn't. The story of the film is basically that a detective (dafoe) re-opens a series of murder cases by a well known killer he was investigating. The story is mainly focused on Dafoe with minor characters such as his prostitute friend (Duvall) and his detective partner (speedman). I thought this film had loads of potential but it fell short because it lacked a few things. 1) the character development- although they established a few elements to Dafoes character, I thought they should have gone further to develop his character. Speedman and Duvalls characters have the typical stereotypes associated with any rookie detective and prostitute friend. I didn't feel that these characters had anything interesting to add to the film and were there really to just infill any film clichés the director wanted to add. I must say that the idea is very original and the victim scenes were interesting to watch but I was not at all satisfied with the ending as it was more of an anticlimax more than anything and the killer said 3 lines in the whole film.

dilaraarslan1998 This film is thriller and horror film. Actually, I watched this film for Willem Defoe. I think, Willem Dafoe is the best actor. First, I didn't understand the subject of this film. Thete were a lot of name and different events in there. But after, I understood events. Willem Dafoewho is a police in the film is Stan Aubray. There was a serial killer and he pursuit of Stan. The serial killer killed people looks like a picture. This is very disgusting for me. The killer killed a person and he cut him looks like masterpiece:( Stan found the killer but at the end of the film he was died. Stan shouldn't be dead, for me. I am very disappointed about it.

merklekranz This is an interesting idea gone bad. The hidden meanings in art left as clues by a serial killer sounds intriguing, but the execution in "Anamorph" is excruciatingly slow and without much interest. There is no other way to describe the film except boring. The death clues are the only interesting part of "Anamorph". Everything connecting them is tedious. Willem Dafoe gives a credible performance as the investigator, but he has little to do with a script that is stretched to the limit. Several supporting character actors are wasted , including Peter Stormare as the art expert, James Rebhorn as the police chief, Paul Lazar as the medical examiner, and most notably Deborah Harry, who is featured on the back of the DVD case, yet only has a couple lines spoken through a cracked door. Not recommended. - MERK

p-stepien Willem Dafoe plays Stan Aubray, a detective hunting for a supposedly copycat serial killer with a knack for art. His murders are his art. As was with the original killer - someone named Uncle Eddie by the press. But that was 5 years ago. The killer was tracked down and found dead in his apartment. Or was he? Willem Dafoe as always excels in the role of a rundown pedantic detective haunted by the past. This is basically his movie, so it is him that makes the movie watchable and engaging. Stan Aubray feels very dysfunctional and his disregard for his colleagues leads him to have a very vague working relationship with his peers. The crimes are gruesome and nicely presented - a far cry from '7even' with a similar feel to the ways crimes are filmed. The movie is very dark and almost claustrophobic, especially conveying a feeling that the truth hides somewhere in the darkness and what is seen is only a fragment of reality.All in all quite involving. But somehow lacking... The end result feels disjointed with most characters not properly presented (except for Aubray). Also for a movie focused around a murderer the serial killer seems dull and uninteresting (maybe this was a deliberate ploy - it is his art that matters, not him himself?). There isn't much as far as explanation as to motives are concerned, but this is especially problematic because we never really get a feeling why Dafoe's character is so key to the murderer's overall plan.