Tag: True Crime

In a new episode of One Missed Pod, Zack and Kelly discuss Shohei Imamura's 1979 true-crime serial killer thriller, Vengeance is Mine. Anchored by...

You can tell this week was a Zack pick by the dark subject matter in Guilty of Romance (2011). This film by legendary director...

In 1993 on death row in Chester, Illinois, John Wayne Gacy said: “If you serve other people, it will come back to serve you.”...

Societal shock gripped the Washington, D.C. area in October of 2002. Over the course of twenty days, ten people were shot and killed by...

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—...

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...

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...

In the city, people are often scared by serial and spree killers because of the anonymity involved— amongst a large population, a multiple murderer...

America’s all but resigned itself as a nation to being rocked every week or so by new gun massacres. People who’ve seen it as...

Apart from the loss of lives, one of the saddest parts of any serial killer investigation is often realizing many of the victims were...

In 1990, Keith Hunter Jesperson would turn thirty-five years old. He had recently received two major blows to an already dangerously fragile ego. The...

It was July 6th of 1993 when Karla Homolka was convicted on two counts of manslaughter for her involvement in Paul Bernardo’s spree of...

SCRIPTOPHOBIC NOTE: We don't normally do spoiler warnings, however The Clovehitch Killer is a recent release, so be warned! The Clovehitch Killer (2018) is a great...

During the mid-1980s, serial killers were already a staple of American media— everybody knew the names Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Richard Ramirez and...

We’re unsettled by anyone who kills another human being. The idea of taking a person’s life, to the vast majority of us, is morally...

In the summer of 1977, New York City was suffering after a year of young people being murdered. An unknown man - a human...

Gerard Johnson’s 2009 indie film Tony is about a meek Englishman living alone in a flat on a council housing estate and harbouring dark...

In North America, the name John Bunting isn’t particularly well known. But in Australia, his name continues to instil a sense of dread in...

People love real stories about death, murder, and all varieties of human atrocities. This predilection for tragedy extends all the way back into the...

Since the heyday of the big four - Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Chucky - slasher movie fans have continually searched for...

When 10 Rillington Place was released in 1971 the disturbing sting of serial killer John Reginald Christie was still lingering in the United Kingdom’s...

What happens when a person’s psychopathy isn’t exactly definable as typical mental illness? What do we, as a society, do for and with these...

In this week’s Serial Killer Celluloid, we’re going to cheat— just a little. Ed Gein isn’t classified as a serial killer. The man was...

Sometimes art imitates life. Other times, life imitates art. Suddenly there’s no line between what is fiction and what constitutes reality. In August of...

The name Aileen Wuornos conjures to most the image of a wild eyed, crazed woman who shouted profanities in court after being condemned to...