Tag: Adapting True Crime
Cults, American Xenophobia and Outsiders in Borderland (2007)
America’s never had a rosy image of Mexico, seeing it either from a flawed economic perspective— assuming everyone south of the border is poor—...
Citizen X (1995) and the Failure of Soviet Bureaucracy
Not long ago, Serial Killer Celluloid took a look at Joon-ho Bong’s Memories of Murder (2003)— a fantastic film about South Korean police’s first...
ZODIAC (2007): Never Let Ethics Get in the Way of a Good Story
Anybody who’s serious about appreciating film, and filmmakers, can admit that David Fincher— whether you like him or not— is one of the great...
The Police Incompetence and Widespread Societal Misogyny of The Chaser (2008)
Apart from the loss of lives, one of the saddest parts of any serial killer investigation is often realizing many of the victims were...