And as he was commandant of a concentration camp, he has lots to tell, like gruesome stories of exactly how people died in gas chambers. Terrified of being found out, Dussander agrees. Todd confronts Kurt Dussander (Sir Ian McKellen) - the boy has photographs and fingerprints lifted from the old man’s mailbox, evidence he threatens to turn over to the authorities unless Dussander tells him about his experiences during the war. All his extra reading on the subject allows him to recognize, from a history book, an old man in his neighborhood as a fugitive war criminal - Apt Pupil is set in 1984, permitting for a still-spry if aging Nazi. History class has enthralled him with Nazism and the Holocaust - a subject that, it’s worth noting, many teenagers find themselves temporarily fascinated with, in a horrified way, without ever joining a white-supremacist group or adopting Nazi attitudes. Precocious Todd Bowden (Brad Renfro, from Telling Lies in America), only 16 years old, is on the verge of high school graduation, and at the top of his class to boot. Pair these two up, and you get the coolly brutal Apt Pupil.īased on a King novella and directed by Singer, Apt Pupil takes on the evil that chillingly lurks in the ordinary world around us, and even more frightening, within us. Director Bryan Singer, with his The Usual Suspects, showed us that he’s aware of the squirmy, manipulative power of evil.
Writer Stephen King has made a career of scaring us not with blood and guts but with cerebral psychological thrillers.
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