100 Stupid Movies About Ridiculously Improbable Serial Killers

once again you prove to be a woman after my own heart!

*sigh*

house of 1000 corpses? supposed to be pretty dud, so I've actually never seen it.

so yeah, TDR is just fine as a standalone narrative (if, by narrative, u mean cavalcade of violence & grotesquery)

-30. the stepfather (& sequels)

Loosely based on a real guy, although he only killed the one family.

It strikes me that, among real-life dudes, the BTK and Green River killers were almost as ludicrous as any of these fictional guys. They got away with that shit for a loooooong time. Also the Zodiac, obvs.

Have there been movies about the Green River Killer? I'm sort of obsessed with that story.

so yeah, TDR is just fine as a standalone narrative (if, by narrative, u mean cavalcade of violence & grotesquery)

― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:44 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah, I need to see it. Also want to see it for the final "Freebird" scene which I hear is pretty epic.

although he only killed the one family. - thus not engaging in the ridiculously improbable repeat activity of marrying, mudering, remarrying, murdering etc.

pretty sure this was borrowed (stolen) pretty blatantly from Night of the Hunter, now that I think about it.

he BTK and Green River killers were almost as ludicrous as any of these fictional guys.

yeah, even the most shameless & exploitative of directors wouldn't go near the sort of irl behavior exemplified by someone like Albert Fish, for example (at least I hope not..) - unless it were done as something like a "true crime" police procedural, like Citizen X (about an equally reprehensible soviet-era russian sk).

Personally, I can indulge in the ott fictional stuff all day, but anything having to do with the irl guys just leaves me feeling terrible about humanity, empty inside, nauseous etc. Similarly, I'll gladly take in something absurdly bloody & pus-filled like Martyrs, but try to get me to watch an irl surgery or something & I'll probably faint.

The guy in Night of the Hunter only kills one family too. Technically he only kills Shelly Winters (the kids get away!)

I think they made two movies recently about Fish, weirdly enough.

Finding Nemo and Piranha 3D

ha

I like the less fantastical serial killer movies myself. One of the things I like about Zodiac and Memories of Murder is that both movies make it pretty clear that the main obstacle to catching these guys isn't that they are mad geniuses, it's that the police are poorly equipped to catch people who commit serial murders.

Loved se7en, especially the cinematography, twas ruined by pitts overacting at the end.

is there a thread on pretty looking films/great cinematography type of thread discussions on one of the threads?

Twin Peaks season 2 episodes with windom earl

One of the things I like about Zodiac and Memories of Murder is that both movies make it pretty clear that the main obstacle to catching these guys isn't that they are mad geniuses, it's that the police are poorly equipped to catch people who commit serial murders.

I agree -- most irl serial killers are more likely to be of low or average intelligence, they aren't criminal masterminds.

he main obstacle to catching these guys isn't that they are mad geniuses - gotta admit that those dudes are p interesting, but most sks are just sadistic perverts who get away with it as long as they do b/c of the randomness of their crimes.

lol xp - we seem to have a p fundamental disagreement here.

o wait, never mind. that is what I get for scanning posts too quickly

Ebert FUCKING LOVES (er, loved) The Cell

http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-cell-2000

deeply bad last graf there

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/se7en-screenwriter-how-a-mixup-david-fincher-led-gutsy-ending-963957

Screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker was working at Tower Records in New York when he wrote Seven, which was optioned in the early 90s with Christmas Vacation director Jeremiah Chechik coming on board to direct. Chechik wanted to make a very different movie. Among the changes Chechik requested from Walker was one to alter that inventive ending. There was to be no head in a box.

-31. Zodiac

God what's that fucking movie with Annabella Sciorra where Alan Alda turns out to be the psycho murderer? Was he serial in that?

― Jon Lewis, Friday, September 7, 2007 5:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"The West Wing"?

― HI DERE, Friday, September 7, 2007 5:28 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink