Adapting Truman Capote’s true-crime novel about the senseless murder of a family in rural Kansas, In Cold Blood is a grimly authentic American horror story. Shot in the same house, courtroom and penitentiary that were splashed across front pages less than a decade earlier, Brooks’ fever dream noir is a haunting journey inside an atrocity that struck a chill in America’s heartland. Robert Blake would go on to work memorably with Lynch.
In Cold Blood
Directed by Richard Brooks