True Crime Movies

[sdreid]

Thanks Zodiac.

Yes, that first one was #3 on my list in my first post on this thread.

Your second movie, I was not familiar with.

The third one, I have heard of but have not had the opportunity to see.

[Zodiac]

Hi Stan,

10 Rillington Place! A true classic! So creepy, so chilling and so "real" not like watching a "movie" at all.

Zodiac... Well I had to didn't I!!! While its by no means as acurate as some people seem to believe, even so, its got to be one of the best true crime movies ever made and proof that US cinema is capable of so much more than the usual brain-dead Hollywood fair that they churn out!

Five Daughters. The story of the Ipswich Murders, told, for once, from the victims perspective.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1642351/

This is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0233115/

Best wishes,

Zodiac.

[sdreid]

I liked The Bronx is Burning.

[Baron of the High Rips]

I have to admit I really liked Summer of Sam, even though it's loosely based. Not just because Mira Sorvino is my favourite actress

[sdreid]

What is the title for JtR 3-D? I can't find it on IMDb.

[sdreid]

But then again, some didn't care about the push button phone in Swoon.

[sdreid]

Mediocre

I watched Stolen last week which was supposedly based on the Boy in the Box Case. It might have been inspired by that crime but it was way too different to be called "Based on" as I define it. The film had potential but failed to deliver especially when attention to detail is considered.

[sdreid]

Also last month, we lost Dorothy Provine who was the first actress to play Bonnie Parker by name in a movie.

[belinda]

Charles B. Pierce, director and actor from the cult true-crime classic The Town That Dreaded Sundown has just died. He was 71.

No. Oh what a shame

[sdreid]

Hi Joan,

I just watched the film Hurt earlier this week and it reminded me a lot of The Bad Seed. Regarding the latter, I need to watch it again and see if I detect any similarities with Gunness.

[Pippin Joan]

Another true crime movie I remember -- "The Man in the Attic", not the JTR/Jack Palance one, but based on the Otto Sanhuber case, starring Neil Patrick Harris. A middle-aged woman keeps her willing boy-toy in the attic for nigh on to 20 years, even moving him cross-country to other houses, all without the knowledge of her husband. The whole thing comes out into the open when hubby is shot.

Wasn't the Belle Gunness case an inspiration for the murderous mother in "The Bad Seed"? Little Rhoda's mother is adopted by loving parents, but she eventually remembers that she is the daughter who escaped being murdered by a psychopathic mother in a prairie farmhouse.

[sdreid]

Decent

A more accurate although not necessarily better List movie from 1993 was Judgment Day: The John List Story starring Robert Blake.

[sdreid]

Charles B. Pierce, director and actor from the cult true-crime classic The Town That Dreaded Sundown has just died. He was 71.

[sdreid]

Decent

I watched The Stepfather the other night. It was said to be inspired by the John List family murder case and was entertaining, I thought. This film was a remake of a 1987 movie that was also from List according to some sources but who knows since that case didn't really get national attention until 1989. Maybe the film maker was just more up to speed on the case back then than I was.

[sdreid]

Thanks for the heads up Mike.