Blood Simple

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• Year: 1984
• Running time: 99 Minutes

The Coen brothers' critically acclaimed directorial debut combines chilling suspense with offbeat humor to create an all-American version of the classic "film noir."

Set in rural Texas, Abby (Frances McDormand) is cheating on her saloonkeeper husband Marty (Dan Hedaya). The object of her affections is Ray (John Getz), one of Marty's bartenders. Marty hires Visser (M. Emmet Walsh), an unscrupulous detective, to kill them but Visser has other, more lucrative plans of his own. So begins a calculating round of double and triple crosses that build to a bloodcurdling, surprise-filled climax. It's an evil-minded masterpiece from the exciting filmmaking team of Joel and Ethan Coen. In Blood Simple, when someone's gone...it's never for good!

Blood Simple had its US premiere at SIFF in 1984, and went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1985.

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