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.
― ENBB, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
The guy in Night of the Hunter only kills one family too. Technically he only kills Shelly Winters (the kids get away!)
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I think they made two movies recently about Fish, weirdly enough.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Finding Nemo and Piranha 3D
― thermite art (latebloomer), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ha
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Twin Peaks season 2 episodes with windom earl
― a nan, a bal, an anal ― (abanana), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― THX THO... (Nicole), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 21:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol xp - we seem to have a p fundamental disagreement here.
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:00 (thirteen years ago) link
o wait, never mind. that is what I get for scanning posts too quickly
― jerkstore cowboy (Pillbox), Tuesday, 21 December 2010 22:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Ebert FUCKING LOVES (er, loved) The Cell
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-cell-2000
― écorché (S-), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 04:45 (eight years ago) link
deeply bad last graf there
― playlists of pensive swift (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 19 August 2015 05:38 (eight years ago) link
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.
― The beaver is not the bad guy (El Tomboto), Sunday, 15 January 2017 05:30 (seven years ago) link
-31. Zodiac
― Neanderthal, Sunday, 15 January 2017 06:03 (seven years ago) link
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