The Iceman

The Iceman (2012) is Ariel Vromen's crime thriller, and you can watch it online on iFILM. Michael Shannon plays a doting suburban husband who, off the clock, kills people for the mob.

The film draws on Richard Kuklinski, a contract killer who claimed roughly 250 hits across two decades. His wife Deborah (Winona Ryder) and their daughters never learn the truth; they believe he dubs cartoons for a living. He stays calm at the dinner table and colder still on a job, which is where the nickname comes from. Working for crime boss Roy DeMeo (Ray Liotta), Kuklinski crosses paths with a freezer-truck partner known as Mr. Freezy (Chris Evans) and edges closer to exposure every year.

Shannon builds the monster with stillness instead of theatrics: a heavy stare, few words, a flatness that unsettles. David Schwimmer, James Franco and Stephen Dorff fill out the cast. The story is pieced together from prison interviews with the real Kuklinski and the case files that followed. Watch The Iceman (2012) online on iFILM.