Set in rural Texas, Blood Simple combines chilling suspense with offbeat humor to create an all-American classic. Abby (Frances McDormand) is cheating on her saloon-keeper hus ... more

Set in rural Texas, Blood Simple combines chilling suspense with offbeat humor to create an all-American classic. Abby (Frances McDormand) is cheating on her saloon-keeper husband Matty (Dan Hedaya). The object of her affections is Ray (John Getz), one of Marty s bartenders. Marty hires Visser (M. Emmet Walsh), an unscrupulous detective, to kill them but Visser has other, more lucrative plans of his own. So begins a calculating round of double and triple crosses that build to a blood-curdling surprise-filled climax. less