Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me was perhaps the most controversial film at this year’s Sundance FIlm Festival. Its extreme violence left many critics fuming, saying it was sadistic and gratuitous, excruciating to watch and would never a distributor willing to take it on. They were wrong on the last part, with IFC buying it for the US and Icon taking it on in the UK. The film, based on Jim Thompson’s novel, stars Casey Affleck, Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson, with Affleck as a West Texas deputy sheriff who is slowly unmasked as a psychotic, sexual serial killer. The controversy comes from the fact it’s all told from the killer’s point of view and Winterbottom doesn’t hold back of the gruesomeness of his crimes. We’ve now be sent the UK trailer for the film, which you can watch by clicking below. The Killer Inside me hits British cinemas on June 4th.