For our Houston readers, there is a special screening TONIGHT of TEXAS KILLING FIELDS with a special Q &A featuring Texas City detectives Mike Land and Brian Goetschius (whose true stories inspired the film). Trust me when I say that seeing a movie followed by a Q&A with the “real” people who influenced it can be a very special treat.
WHAT: TEXAS KILLING FIELDS Screening and Q&A with Texas City detectives Mike Land and Brian Goetschius
WHEN: Friday, October 21st at 7:45pm
WHERE: Regal Greenway 24 in Houston, Texas
MORE INFO: Tickets can be purchased at www.fandango.com.
TEXAS KILLING FIELDS opens in Houston on 10/21 and is now playing in select theaters nationwide.
Inspired by true events, this tense and haunting thriller follows Detective Souder (Sam Worthington), a homicide detective in a small Texan town, and his partner, transplanted New York City cop Detective Heigh (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they track a sadistic serial killer dumping his victims’ mutilated bodies in a nearby marsh locals call “The Killing Fields.”
Though the swampland crime scenes are outside their jurisdiction, Detective Heigh is unable to turn his back on solving the gruesome murders. Despite his partner’s warnings, he sets out to investigate the crimes. Before long, the killer changes the game and begins hunting the detectives, teasing them with possible clues at the crime scenes while always remaining one step ahead. When familiar local girl Anne (Chloë Grace Moretz) goes missing, the detectives find themselves racing against time to catch the killer and save the young girl’s life.
Directed by Ami Canaan Mann, Produced by Michael Mann and Michael Jaffe, Texas Killing Fields also stars Jessica Chastain (Tree of Life, The Help), Jason Clarke (Public Enemies, FOX’s “Chicago Code”) and Stephen Graham (Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, HBO’s “Boardwalk Empire”). Executive Producers Bill Block, Paul Hanson, Justin Thompson, Anthony J.A Bryan, Jr., Ethan Smith, John Friedberg and Michael Ohoven, with music by Dickon Hinchliffe.
TEXAS KILLING FIELDS opens in select theaters October 21, 2011
Born and raised in Dallas, Mark has been a movie critic since 1994, with reviews featured in print, radio and National TV. In 2001 he started the Entertainment section of the Herorealm website, where he contributed film reviews and celebrity interviews until 2004. After three years of service there, he started Bigfanboy.com, which has become one of the Dallas film community's leading information websites. Bigfanboy hosts several movie screenings in the Texas area, and works closely with film and TV studios and promotional partners to host exciting events and contests. The site also features a variety of rare celebrity and filmmaker interviews, and Bigfanboy.com regularly covers the film festival circuit as well. In addition to Hollywood reporting, Mark has worked for many years as an advertising and sci-fi/comic book artist. Clients have included Lucasfilm Ltd., Topps Trading Cards, The Dallas Mavericks and The Dallas Stars. From 2002 until 2015 he managed the Dallas Comic Con, Sci-Fi Expo and Fan Days events in the DFW area. He currently catalogs rare comic books and movie memorabilia for Heritage Auctions, and runs the Dallas Comic Show conventions, but remains an avid moviegoer and cinema buff. 
Is Brian Goetschius a native of Wellsville NY?
Ann, I have no idea. I think he’s mostly a Texas guy though, as “Texas City detective” is how he’s usually described. However, in the movie Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays a NYC cop transferred to Texas City, and Brian Goetschius was half of the film’s inspiration, so…
Im unusually proud that I live maybe half a mike from the killing fields….