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You Gotta Have No Illusions, Just Keep Going Your Way Looking Over Your Shoulder: Cillian Murphy Looks Sharp Under the Red Lights

By Cindy Davis | Posted Under Trailers | Comments (14)

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Having personally studied the paranormal and hoaxes for over a year, writer/director Rodrigo Cortés (Buried) became interested in exploring the way different people approached the subject and decided to turn his ideas into a film. In Red Lights, Sigourney Weaver stars as a psychologist trying to debunk paranormal activity with the aide of her hot scientist assistant, Cillian Murphy. It Girl and festival darling Elizabeth Olsen plays Murphy’s girlfriend, but the kicker here is Robert De Niro as the world-renowned psychic whom our heroes take on. The trailer has De Niro doing that enraged yelling thing he likes to do so much when he’s being a bad guy, but word on the street is (unsurprisingly) that Cillian is the one to watch. With sharply divided reviews (varying from love to hate) and lots of discussion following its Sundance premiere, Red Lights was quickly picked up by Millennium Entertainment.

Here’s the requisitely ominous trailer:


I’ve gotten to the point where I’ll watch just about anything with Murphy—he has a way of elevating whatever he’s given. At the same time De Niro (in this type of role) is to the film’s detriment; Sigourney could push things either way. What do you think, is this a Netflixer?

Red Lights begins its theater run in Spain, March 2nd.

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Comments

Even in that toque Murphy manages to look freaky. I'm not scared so much as I'm impressed.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at February 2, 2012 3:12 PM

Mmmmm, Cillian Murphy. He's just damn delicious.

Posted by: luthien26 at February 2, 2012 3:17 PM

Freaky, but hot. In a hot freaky kinda way.

Posted by: layla at February 2, 2012 3:54 PM

Ya, no.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at February 2, 2012 3:59 PM

Cillian Murphy gives me the same amazing otherworldy alien vibe as Tilda Swinton.

Posted by: Nimue at February 2, 2012 4:10 PM

and by "otherworldy" you mean androgynous?

(isn't it interesting how often the two are conflated?)

Posted by: Sara Tonin at February 2, 2012 5:34 PM

Cillian has done drag and he makes a damned pretty girl, that's for sure. Bottom two photos.

Posted by: Genevieve at February 2, 2012 5:41 PM

I'm in! I love Cillian Murphy SO much. I hope there's nothing left of the scenery when DeNiro's done.

Posted by: ChickaBoom! at February 2, 2012 5:46 PM

I am now scarred for life from seeing those Cillian Murphy in drag pictures. He is one hell of a woman!!

Posted by: MM at February 2, 2012 5:54 PM

Nimue, I'd say it's the eyes. In Swinton's case, they're unhumanly wide, in Cillian's unhumanly blue, and in both cases they just seem to sit in an odd place. An inch and a half from where they were expected to be. Add to that the strangely shaped upper lip or the strong lower eyelids - otherworldly look it is.

And I think I'll put this movie on my list, into the upper quarter, even though I have the feeling that I'm going to hate it eventually. Because in the trailer it really looks a lot like DeNiro will end up having supernatural powers and it'll all be magical and every skeptic in Weaver's team will be convinced (and end up dead or in the nuthouse while still being perfectly sane), instead of him being found out as a really nifty fraud who spiked Murphy's drink with hallucinogenics or something.
Those kind of movies tend to irritate me. It's just so cheap and undignified.
But it's Cillian Murphy. I really like Cillian Murphy.
I'm torn.
I'm all out of faith, this is how I feel.
I'm cold and I am shamed...

Posted by: Rooks at February 2, 2012 6:34 PM

C'mere Cillian...I'll protect you from the freaky psychic DeNiro.

What, pants? Oh honey, where we're going...you don't need pants.

Posted by: MissAmynae at February 3, 2012 12:08 AM

MissAmynae, save some for me. Not pants. Some Cillian.

Posted by: cinekat at February 3, 2012 4:45 AM

Jumping on the Murphy-bandwagon.

And what a fine bandwagon it is.

Posted by: Zirze at February 3, 2012 11:24 AM

After watching Cortes' last film, Buried, I became enough of a convert to keep his movies on my short list. That movie was fantastically done with so little... well, everything.

Posted by: luckypetes at February 7, 2012 10:38 AM