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Blood Simple
Directed by
Joel Coen
R
1984
1h 37m
Drama
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Crime
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7.5
94%
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The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
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Cast of Blood Simple
John Getz
Ray
Frances McDormand
Abby
Dan Hedaya
Julian Marty
M. Emmet Walsh
Loren Visser
Samm-Art Williams
Meurice
Deborah Neumann
Debra
Raquel Gavia
Landlady
Van Brooks
Man from Lubbock
Señor Marco
Mr. Garcia
William Creamer
Old Cracker
Loren Bivens
Strip Bar Exhorter
Bob McAdams
Strip Bar Senator
Shannon Sedwick
Stripper
Nancy Finger
Girl on Overlook
William Preston Robertson
Radio Evangelist (voice)
Holly Hunter
Helene Trend (voice) (uncredited)
Barry Sonnenfeld
Marty's Vomiting (voice) (uncredited)
Blood Simple Ratings & Reviews
AngusMcNutz
January 5, 2025
The beginning of the Coen brothers’ addiction to tracking shots. As far as noir thrillers go, it’s pretty airtight. Nice film to have on during a quiet night in.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
It's a trailblazing masterpiece in any form.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Black humor, abundant originality and a brilliant visual style make Joel Coen's Blood Simple, a directorial debut of extraordinary promise.
Houston Chronicle
Louis B. Parks
The movie is as dark, ironic and fatalistically comic as modern film noir comes.
Slant Magazine
Chris Cabin
There's a simple magnetism inherent in this kind of filmmaking, and the Coens know how to orchestrate it.
The Ringer
Adam Nayman
What holds up best about Blood Simple, besides its vice-tight plotting and the rotten charisma of M. Emmet Walsh's evil, manipulative private eye Visser, is the sheer exuberance of the Coens's visual style.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
"Blood Simple" becomes a dazzling comedie noire, a dynamic, virtuoso display by a couple of talented fledgling filmmakers who give the conventions of the genre such a thorough workout that the result is a movie that's fresh and exhilarating.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
Watching this beautiful restoration of "Blood Simple" I was actually struck by how non-bleak it is, how much the strength of the film lies in images of beauty, defiance and survival.
Village Voice
Chris Packham
Though the film has a few exposed seams, it's tightly composed and beautifully shot in a way that easily rivals more expensive features.
The New Yorker
Pauline Kael
It isn't really about anything except making a commercial narrative movie outside the industry.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Watch this film, and these film makers, closely. Neither will disappoint.
Variety
Variety Staff
An inordinately good low-budget film noir thriller.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
The movie remains mired in a smart-alecky film-school sensibility.
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
The whole dusty, humid landscape is satanically alive...
L.A. Weekly
Manohla Dargis
Blood Simple is so derivative -- of Dashiell Hammett and James M. Cain and a thousand and one noirs -- that who or what is being ripped off is essentially beside the point.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
From first shot to last, the Coens seldom miss an opportunity to suggest that theirs is a movie made by evolutionarily advanced life-forms touring a primitive planet.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
The Coens, then as now, are alive to the possibilities of movies. So savor their technique and the sizzling performances.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
...for all its delirious impudence and film school showiness, it's so clearly a movie made by guys crazy about moviemaking.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It tells a story in which every individual detail seems to make sense, and every individual choice seems logical, but the choices and details form a bewildering labyrinth in which there are times when even the murderers themselves don't know who they are.
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