It’s harrowing stuff, as the corpses pile up in “The Iceman.” Eventually, numbness sets in as we watch Kuklinski’s body count rise, all the while as he maintains a semblance of suburban normalcy, marrying a mousey wife (Winona Ryder) and raising a couple of clueless daughters. A later scene shows him visiting his incarcerated little brother (Stephen Dorff), who alludes to at least one earlier childhood murder. This may or may not have been Kuklinski’s first killing. Kuklinski follows the jerk outside, where he casually slits the man’s throat. Most people would shrug it off a hothead might pop the guy in the mouth. The cold-bloodedness, at least, Shannon gets exactly right.Īriel Vroman’s film (written by the director and Morgan Land) shows Kuklinski committing his first on-camera murder after he’s been disrespected by a guy in a bar. That - or possibly the fact that he sometimes froze his victims’ bodies before dumping them - was the reason for his chilling nickname.

Kuklinski, who died in prison in 2006, is notorious for having murdered, by his own imperfect recollection, at least one or two hundred people, without apparent compunction. It’s somewhat difficult to judge Michael Shannon’s performance in “The Iceman,” which is based on the true story of Richard Kuklinski, a serial killer and mob assassin. ‘The Iceman’: A portrait of a frightening family man (review) – The Mercury News Close Menu

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