No Country for Old Men

This is one of the most blood chilling movies I've dared see in a long time. As usual, Tommy Lee Jones captures a sheriff in 1980's West Texas with dead-on accuracy. And the villain was as evil as my imagination will allow. The Coens manage to evoke the spirit of the time and place, which for me, added to the movie's menace.

I must say, however, that McCarthy's book is more horrifying still. While I could sit through the movie, I couldn't endure the book. The violence took too long to get through.