Sommardåd

Filmens enda stora behållning är - Ian McKellen som gör en suverän insats...

...it's in the slow transfusion of Dussander's infamous criminality to Todd's bad veins that Singer tells a story with serious moral resonance.

Like The Usual Suspects, Apt Pupil is readable as an interrogation of the Devil.

Apt Pupil uses the horrors of the Holocaust as an atmospheric backdrop to the more conventional horror devices of a Stephen King story.

...Apt Pupil is an expert exercise in domestic horror, with master and pupil getting drawn deeper into a chess game of blackmail and counter-blackmail around the kitchen table.