Thriller · Mystery

The Infernal Machine

Name: The Infernal Machine
Director: Andrew Hunt
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Released: 2022-09-23
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Guy Pearce, Alice Eve, Jeremy Davies, Alex Pettyfer, Iris Cayatte

What he created will destroy him.

6.2(306) 9/23/2022 1h 47m

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Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. Cogburn's search for who is behind the manipulation and mental torment he encounters leads to an emotional roller-coaster ride full of fear and danger, where things are not always as clear as they seem to be, and where past deeds can have dire consequences.

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Top Cast

Guy Pearce

Bruce Cogburn

Alice Eve

Officer Higgins

Jeremy Davies

Elijah Barett

Alex Pettyfer

Dwight Tufford

Iris Cayatte

Us Marshall Perez

Rachel De Fontes

Copy Store Clerk

Ana Lopes

Woman at DCC

Georgia Goodman

Francesca

Directed by

Andrew Hunt

Production

Filmology Finance Moviebox

Reviews

CinemaSerf

6/10

12/3/2022

A lot of this reminded me of "Unhinged" (2020) with Guy Pierce here delivering a strong and characterful performance just as Russell Crowe did back then. Again, like that film, the rest of this story is weak and far-fetched, though. Pierce is reclusive British author "Cogburn" who finds himself being pursued by researching novelist "William DuKent". Initially hostile, for some reason he takes to calling this man from a local phone box and leaving his machine messages telling him to get lost. (Just quite why he doesn't just ignore him... well?). Anyway, this persistence unleashes in the writer the need for a dog and a bottle, and it's after a little too much one night he encounters a local law officer "Higgins" (Alice Eve) and the story lurches from a curious and intriguing personality anal