Crimewave
A pair of whacked-out cartoon-like exterminator/hitmen kill the owner of a burglar-alarm company, and stalk the partner who hired them, his wife, and a nerd framed for the murder, who tells the story in flashback from the electric chair.
Why it matters
Crimewave delivers a delirious collision of slapstick violence and off-kilter noir, a cult oddity that defies conventional genre logic with gleeful anarchy.
- Early Sam Raimi and the Coen brothers’ sensibilities clash in a chaotic tonal stew of cartoonish brutality and dark comedy.
- A surreal, hyper-stylized crime spree fueled by pratfalls, pratfall-adjacent deaths, and an elastic sense of physics.
- For fans of B-movie weirdness and offbeat ’80s genre mashups—this is a fever dream in neon and blood.
- The framing device of a nerd on death row unspools a fractured narrative that’s more puzzle box than straightforward thriller.
Director
Cast
Horror DNA
Gore
0
Slow Burn
33
Psychological
14
Supernatural
0
Creature
0
Disturbing
0
Fun Factor
100
Cerebral
14
Survival
50
