I could make a more obscure or "cool" choice. The Manchurian Candidate would be a good choice- especially if you happened to be specifically whacking John McCain. Senator, why don't you pass the time with a game of solitaire?

It would be different to blame your killing spree on a comedy. They wouldn't see that one coming. Pulp Fiction would be an obvious candidate.

Now a GOOD killing spree should be done in love, not hate. You know, where you kill someone to impress a chick. Shooting the president to impress Jodie Foster was the classic example. I can see how the Taxi Driver thing might push a fella the rest of the way off the hinges. Classic choice of focus for your crazy fit, but it's been done.

Looking for a movie performance that would inspire my killing spree, there are a few. The first two Hannibal movies have a nicely evil romanticism about them, but it's still Foster territory.

If I could get myself crazy enough not to remember that the actress is 90 something years old now, Simone Simon as Belle, the demonic French nanny from "over the mountain" in the 1941 classic The Devil and Daniel Webster might inspire crazed violence. That would be an excellent and less than obvious choice.

Looking for something more modern, there's Juliette Lewis as Mallory Knox in Natural Born Killers. But that would just be redundant to the movie, wouldn't it?

WILDCARD: If you REALLY want to go for crazy, you could tell 'em you shot the congressman to try to get a date with Jessica Rabbit.

I'm still not quite satisfied with my choices. I'm looking for suggestions. I suggest two-fold entries, for the "good" spree and the "bad" spree.