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# I Don’t Like Serial Killer Movies — But I Love This One
- URL: https://www.bensmovieguide.com/i-dont-like-serial-killer-movies-but-i-love-this-one/
- Published: 2026-09-19T03:01:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-21T21:12:16.000Z
- Description: I usually avoid serial-killer movies. Switchback is the exception — a tense, atmospheric ’90s thriller with a great Danny Glover performance and far more personality than most movies in the genre.
- Author: Ben's
- Tags: #movie, thriller, crime, 1990s, #editorial, #Verdict: Rent, #Runtime: 118, Rating: R, Movie: Switchback (1997), #Eyebrow: Underseen Thriller, #featured

I don’t generally like serial-killer movies. I just don’t usually enjoy spending two hours inside that particular kind of story.

[*Switchback*](https://www.bensmovieguide.com/switchback-1997/) is different. It doesn’t feel like a typical serial-killer movie.

It feels more like a thriller that happens to have a serial killer in it.

And that is a big part of why I like it.

Dennis Quaid plays Frank LaCrosse, an FBI agent whose pursuit of the killer has become deeply personal. His investigation takes him through small towns and cold, isolated stretches of the American West.

Meanwhile, Danny Glover plays Bob Goodall, a railroad worker who crosses paths with a young drifter played by Jared Leto.

Goodall is friendly, talkative, funny, and yet slightly odd. Glover plays him with exactly the kind of warmth that makes you want to trust him — while giving you just enough reason not to.

The movie spends a lot of time on highways, trains, diners, snowy landscapes, and remote towns. That setting matters.

Instead of constantly rushing from murder to clue to confrontation, the movie has room to breathe. Characters talk. Relationships develop.

You are watching these people move toward each other without always knowing exactly what is going to happen when they finally collide.

That makes *Switchback* feel much more human than most movies in this genre.

Danny Glover is excellent. Dennis Quaid gives the movie weight. The locations are terrific. And the suspense builds gradually instead of being manufactured every five minutes.

There are dozens of better-known serial-killer movies from the 1990s.

I would rather watch this one.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e9/54/e9540ff8-9c7a-495e-932d-5ba71686447c/content/images/2026/09/tt0119210---Switchback---poster.jpg)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e9/54/e9540ff8-9c7a-495e-932d-5ba71686447c/content/images/2026/09/tt0119210---Switchback---3x1.png)

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![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e9/54/e9540ff8-9c7a-495e-932d-5ba71686447c/content/images/2026/09/tt0119210---Switchback--5x6.png)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e9/54/e9540ff8-9c7a-495e-932d-5ba71686447c/content/images/2026/09/tt0119210---Switchback---6x5.png)