Fans don't get to see too much of TV's Dexter in movies, but Michael C. Hall turned up in a surprisingly polished American independent film earlier this year that would play as an interesting double feature with The Guest, another stylish thriller which throws back to the 80s. Cold In July's murky, noirish storyline sees Richard Dane (Hall) moving rapidly from having to protect his wife from a vengeful intruder to uncovering a plot involving organised crime and police corruption. It's a film about a seedy, sordid underworld and the morally ambiguous characters who haunt these places and commit heinous crimes. One such crime is seen on a video Dane and his associates stumble across - at first, the viewer thinks they're watching cheap soft porn, as men dressed as American football players fool around with a scantily clad woman on a bed. But then they take out a baseball bat... Cutting to Dane's reaction so that only the audio of the tape remains doesn't take away from the fact that the genre of video they're watching is best summed up as "snuff porn".
