Hillside Strangler (R-Rated Edition)

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Summary: This Movie IS SO Incredibly....
Review: Dull,
Stupid,
Boring,
But the casting was really bad. Direct to vid star C. Thomas Howell still can't act his way out of a paperbag. Nicolas Turturro (NYPD Blue) is equally unapealling as Angelo. Both are losers who take out their aggression on females. Not much character development. But not much fear or menace either. I know less about the infamous case than I did when I saw this movie. I enjoyed the bio-pics "Gacy," "ED Gein," and "Ted Bundy." This is not in that league. Skip this one folks and buy the three mentioned above, or the director's earlier work "Dahmer." Those movies capture the real menace and horror of their crimes. This movie is just criminal.

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Summary: This movie took me to a place I really didn't want to be
Review: I'm usually not bothered by violence in movies. Even if it is based on a true story. Movies about serial killers don't bother me either. I have even liked one or two that came out. But this movie's depictions of the violence that befell these women is really horrific and in bad taste. There are times in films when you just have to be suggestive towards what happens. You just have to do that so the person watching it doesn't turn it off in disgust. There were a couple of times in this movie that I was tempted to turn it off for the sake of my girlfriend watching it. I'm no sissy, I don't have christian values, I'm not a parent, but I can tell when a film is depicting violence tastefully and artistically (yes artistically), with good nature or just for theatrics, and when a film is just trying to make you sick. The fact that this is a true story has no barring on me. If it was completely fictional, I'd still feel the same way. This movie just made me sick to my stomach. It didn't make me sympathetic, I didn't feel sad, I was just wondering to myself "why am I still watching this?" Just because what happened is true doesn't make it all right to graphically display it in a move and make me watch it.
Other than that, the acting wasn't really that great. The dialogue at times was cheap, the ending was anti-climactic and the director obviously has no sense of morality what so ever. I wouldn't let my mom view this garbage.
Two stars for the women who had to die so they could have an excuse to make a movie like this.

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Summary: Abbott and Costello become serial killers...
Review: Seriously, this movie was supposed to be based on a very disturbing (yet compelling) true story, and just fails miserably in the translation. Between the class Z acting, total lack of suspense, weak script, and predictability of virtually every scene, I had a hard time sitting through this in its entirety. In fact, the only reason I did sit through it is because after about the first 20 minutes, I realized there were promising signs of an unintentional comedy (which it failed at as well to some degree). Gratuitous sex and violence is the order of the day here, no substance whatsoever. This is one that is best left out of any DVD collection.

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Summary: AN ALRIGHT MOVIE ABOUT THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER SPREE; 3.5
Review: TWO COUSINS EMBARK ON A BRUTAL KILLING SPREE WHICH WOULD HOLD LOS ANGELES IN FEAR FOR 2 YEARS. THE ACTING IS GOOD AND THE MOVIE IS KINDA ENJOYABLE AS WELL AS SUSPENSEFUL, BUT THE MOVIE JUST TENDS TO NOT ALWAYS BE ON THE MONEY. BUT, IF YOU WANNA WATCH A DECENT MOVIE, DON'T HESITATE TO GIVE THIS ONE A TRY. FOR ANOTHER MOVIE ABOUT THIS BRUTAL KILLING SPREE THAT TOOK PLACE IN 1978 AND 1979, TRY TO FIND THE 1989 MADE FOR TV FILM ''THE HILLSIDE STRANGLERS''. BASED ON A TRUE STORY.