True Crime Movies

[sdreid]

I see that The Galapagos Affair is due out next year. It looks like a sort-of Nazi White Mischief - wait a minute - concerning Errol, White Mischief was a Nazi White Mischief.

[sdreid]

Malcolm McDowell played Chikatilo in a movie about a year or so ago that's supposed to be closer to the real story.

Yes, Evilenko my #54. They change the killer's name for some reason but the case is basically the same.

[LTowell]

Oh, and Santiago's first appearance in Interview with the Vampire is fantastic.

[LTowell]

No, he played a Russian forensics expert who was put in charge of a murder case and sees similarities between his case and others-all the while having the higher-ups telling him that there's no such thing as serial killers in Russia, etc. Very good movie. The man who plays Chikatilo was good as well. Malcolm McDowell played Chikatilo in a movie about a year or so ago that's supposed to be closer to the real story.

[kensei]

True. He was in a very good HBO production about Chikatilo, speaking of true crime, called Citizen X.

Really. Did he play Chikatilo?

[LTowell]

I may only be familiar with a few of Stephen Rea's movies but I have trouble picturing Santiago from "Interview with the Vampire" or Detective Finch from "V for Vendetta" being in a weird comedy like that. One never knows.

True. He was in a very good HBO production about Chikatilo, speaking of true crime, called Citizen X.

[SRobinson]

T be honest, i haven't seen many true crime movies, one that springs to mind is The Manson Family, made by VanBebber. a tad gory, and surreal, also quite laughable in places

[kensei]

I may only be familiar with a few of Stephen Rea's movies but I have trouble picturing Santiago from "Interview with the Vampire" or Detective Finch from "V for Vendetta" being in a weird comedy like that. One never knows.

[sdreid]

The only thing funny about that case would have been if the woman had gotten the electric chair.

[LTowell]

There's a movie called Stuck with Stephen Rea It's a dark comedy based on the incident involving the woman who hit a man and drove home with him stuck on her car.

Wow, that's a really messed-up sentence!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758786/

[JSchmidt]

39-Pandora's Box [Die Buchse der Pandora] (1928-Gr.-1:50) Silent, black & white JtR
Finally a Ripper flick!

Based on this drama by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wedekind. Gotta see the Lulu plays someday, they were rather controversial in their time.

[sdreid]

I liked Hit and Run. It reminded me a lot of the case where the woman allowed the man to die in her garage even though she knew he was alive and stuck in the front of her car when she got home. I don't know if there is any connection with this film but, if not, it's some coincidence.

[Magpie]

I finally saw Reversal of Fortune, about the Von Bulow case. Good movie, and raised a lot of questions.

[sdreid]

I don't know if it's been available in the U.S. At any rate, I haven't seen it.

[ianincleveland]

Hi Ian,

Do you mean Conspiracy of Silence about the murder of Helen Betty Osbourne?

Thats the one,thanks.Just checked it on IMDB and that was the movie.Can remember seeing this on UK television about 5 yrs ago and somehow its always stuck with me though obviously not the title