After finding mainstream success with “The Fast and The Furious” in 2001 and its sequel, “2 Fast 2 Furious” in 2003, Paul Walker went through a strange time in his career.
The Southern California native tried to capitalize on his image with 2005’s “Into the Blue,” which flopped about as bad as a movie can flop at the box office.
And so Walker turned to director Wayne Kramer.Having caused a considerable stir with his previous effort, “The Cooler,” the director doubled down on the whole dark, disturbing thing with his next project.
“Running Scared” was an intense, violent, and strangely haunting crime thriller that resurrected the rawness of similar crime outings from the 1970s.
Showcasing a grim desaturated look that heightened its overall sense of doom and seediness, “Running Scared” was an outlier at a time when the adult demographic was seemingly being ignored by mainstream films.Kramer was likely hoping
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