Sentences with phrase «story of the serial killer»

Looking at the billboard posters for «The Snowman» (2017, Tomas Alfredson), I had the feeling that if I paid close attention while watching the movie, I might see a red flag or perhaps spot a clue that the police miss in a complex and carefully constructed story of a serial killer on the loose.

The film is based on an acclaimed graphic novel and tells the story of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who murdered 17 men and boys in the Midwest United States between 1978 and 1991 before being captured by police.

April 2004: Sleeping Beauty by Phillip Margolin In Margolin's chilling novel, true - crime author Miles Van Meter's bestseller told the story of the serial killer who killed several people in Miles» life and put his sister in a coma.

Douglas Preston's latest book, the true story of a serial killer in Italy, shows that the world is far from exhausted for those who want to travel deep.

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You want to talk about serial killers, I can give you the names of some midwives...), and the fourth is the forceps story AGAIN.

The source for the quote meant to serve as a character witness for Latimer may be the family dog walker but presenting her to readers as the family dog walker without mentioning she is a reporter for the Rye Record and former employee of Craig is like doing a story about serial killers and presenting Dennis Radar as an alarm system installer without mentioning he is the BTK Killer.

Even American Horror Story Hotel was inspired by H.H. Holmes one of America's notorious serial killers.

Although Abel is still hoping for an email inviting him to a wedding from two people who met at his event, he said he has heard many stories of people dating and even falling in love at Serial Killer Speed Dating.

To cut the long story short, Plenty of Fish (POF) got itself into a surreal cinematic thriller involving Argentinean hackers, Russian gangsters, American dating site owners, Capitol Hill reporters, website serial killers, and an e-mail to a mother to stop all the madness.

Playing Contestant on Dating Game Show Turned Out to be a Serial Killer A bachelor looking for love on The Dating Game in the 70s, who wound up sitting Claims about hot dog invention are difficult to assess, as stories assert the creation of the sausage, the placing of the sausage (or another kind of

«Beast,» however, is not a typical, superficial treatment of the subject of serial killers but a story with enough depth that even European history becomes a player.But blink, and you'll miss a key point, when Pascal (Johnny Flynn) informs snobbish family members at a family dinner on the British island of Jersey that they, despite their wealth and haute manners, are sitting on land that belonged to his ancestors.

... But in the middle of this comes a brand new kind of story for the show, and one that made me cringe not with delight at Banshee's latest impressive bit of the old ultraviolence, but with concern that Banshee had become TV's latest drama to prominently feature a serial killer.

Focusing on a serial killer, the story begins with the capture of the suspect and moves backwards in time to the crime itself.

Bolstering her TV series fame with TV movies, beginning with the adaptation of the Danielle Steele romance Star (1993), Garth also played the eponymous abused wife in Lies of the Heart: The Story of Laurie Kellogg (1994), a serial killer target in Falling for You (1995), and executive - produced and starred in the teen psychiatric drama Without Consent (1994).

by Walter Chaw The more cynical among us would note that the title might also refer to the time that movies exactly like Taking Lives have stolen from hapless audiences, but the fact of it is that if not for our mortal curiosity, we might have missed genuinely good mad - dog killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and killer flicks like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Killer, Manhunter, The Untold Story, and Se7en.

Working from a brilliant screenplay by Steven Zaillian, Fincher's take on the story focuses more on what I've come to understand is really a classic locked room mystery in the Agatha Christie mode — in the case of the murder / disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the locked room is an island whose sole entry point is blocked by an overturned tanker truck — that is concealed within a study of unlimited misogyny and sidetracked into the discovery of a serial killer.

Based on the true story of John Christie, serial killer in WWII - era England.

Kevin Phillips's Super Dark Times is a coming - of - age story that unexpectedly transforms into a serial - killer thriller.

In his brilliant and haunting first feature, he tells the story of a vicious young serial killer and his impassive underage girlfriend, both perfectly rendered by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

The dark tone was set in part through the use of flashbacks to a 1995 serial killer investigation framed in the context of interviews with the two primary detectives, with McConaughey's intense Rust Cohle looking and acting like a burned out alcoholic as he told his part of the story.

The story of the film follows a mentally fragile college student named Ashley (Caitlin Gerard from «Magic Mike» and «The Social Network») who, after learning of an urban legend in which a mysterious serial killer named «Smiley» can be summoned through the Internet, must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley «s next victim.»

Instead, in telling this bizarro story of Wallace (Justin Long), a brash podcaster who goes to interview an old seafarer (Michael Parks) up in Manitoba only to discover the guy's a serial killer with an unthinkable predilection, Smith too often kneecaps the picture's would be terror and urgency.

(Surely, the star of one of cinema's most notorious serial - killer stories has been cast as the most vicious character, right?)

Considering King's love for the sensational, the upsetting and the obsessive, it is only natural that some of his stories would feature serial killers of the human, non-supernatural kind.

DEADLIER THAN THE MALE (working title) Picked up to series STUDIO: Made Up Stories / Studio T TEAM: Harriet Warner (w, ep), Houda Benyamina (d), Bruna Papandrea (ep), Casey Haver (ep) LOGLINE: Follows a trio of characters, each with a mysterious and troubling past: a young woman who once looked into the eyes of a dangerous killer, a former serial predator desperate to find redemption and Mary, a grieving mother obsessed with finding her missing daughter.

The brilliantly perverse story of a Victorian serial killer waging a one - man class war is captured in 2001's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert featuring Tony - winning Patti Lupone, George Hearn and Neil Patrick surrou... more

However, when a brutal serial killer begins to dispatch victims, by recreating famous murders from Poe's published stories, including «The Murders in the Rue Morgue» as well as «The Pit and the Pendulum,» the author is thrown into a malicious battle of wits — with life and death hanging in the balance.

«The Factory», directed by Morgan O'Neill, tells the story of partnered detectives Mike (played by John Cusack) and Kelsey (played by Jennifer Carpenter) working in New York City as they track a serial killer that has been targeting prostitutes.

The Manson Family isn't a perfect film by a long shot (framing stories are the pits), but it portrays atrocity as atrocity with the mean precision of John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.

This feeling is only heightened by the film's framing device, the conversation between FBI agent Wesley Doyle (the late Powers Boothe) and Fenton, the killer's son (played by Matthew McConaughey) who narrates much of the film, with it feeling like it's going to also double as a serial killer origin story, albeit one with a big twist that we think we can see coming a mile off.

Many expectant moviegoers had been describing McTeigue's Poe film as Se7en in 19th Century Baltimore but, sadly, The Raven lacks nearly all the aspects that made David Fincher's serial killer film so captivating — i.e. jaw - dropping reveals, smart twists, and — despite loads of Poe stories to pull from — intriguing murder scenes are all in short supply.

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Alack - alay, what should happen but a wax museum breaks out as a critics - hating serial killer (just like Theatre of Blood, which I should've revisited instead) enacts scenes from Poe's stories whilst dressed in the hat and cape of McTeigue's V for Vendetta protag.

Seven Psychopaths constantly detours to short stories about other psychopaths like Zachariah (Tom Waits), a serial killer of serial killers, who now goes around carrying a bunny.

But there's a moment — just a flash, and a twisted one — where you catch a glimpse of light for the story's most reprehensible character, who is not the serial killer but the racist, narcissistic grandmother.

Three renowned directors from Hong Kong (Fruit Chan), Korea (Chan - Wook Park) and Japan (Takashi Miike) team for a trio of artistic, thoughtful, yet profoundly disturbings stories, evidence that «extreme» horror doesn't have to involve backwoods serial killers torturing victims for 90 minutes.

Justin Kurzel's directorial debut was marred by controversy for telling the true story of the «Bodies in Barrels Murders», which occurred in Snowtown, a tiny town north of Adelaide, and were committed by Australia's most notorious serial killer John Bunting.

Along the way, we hear the stories of invented psychopaths, like a Vietnamese man in priest garments (Long Nguyen) still bitter over the war, a Quaker (a silent, powerful Harry Dean Stanton) who isn't about to let his daughter's repentant killer rest easy, and a couple of serial killer killers.

The Australian newcomer makes his television début as David Madson, ex-boyfriend and second murder victim of serial killer Andrew Cunanan, in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story.

There's a potentially engaging jurisdictional triangle at the heart of his story, but it's largely obscured by what amounts to mediocre amalgam of a basic, post-CSI procedural and a serial killer B movie, in which a devilish antagonist does things like phone the police to taunt them as he's snuffing his latest victim.

«Our film tells the story of Nathan, a young student in the city who struggles to forget his childhood trauma at the hands of the serial killer dubbed «The Sandman»: a masked killer who murders his victims with a lethally jagged melon spoon (yes, you read that right!)

Based on the acclaimed graphic novel by John «Derf» Backderf, My Friend Dahmer tells the story of infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

Those gripped by Making a Murderer turned to Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer and Josef Fritzl: Story of a Monster, to delve deeper into the mind of the convicted.

The «Wolf of Wall Street» duo will reteam for this true story about a serial killer at the 1893 Chicago World Fair

At 60, the great auteur was at the height of his fame and yet was unable to convince Paramount to finance his next film, «Psycho,» a story based on Robert Bloch's lurid novel about a serial killer.

For the new The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story, Criss is playing serial killer Andrew Cunanan who murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace.

As the countdown begins for the motel's guests, so does the countdown begin in another side story involving the potential stayed execution of a deranged serial killer (Vince, Simone), where his psychiatrist (Molina, Frida) is trying to convince a panel that his client suffers from a disorder where a separate identity did the murders, an identity he feels that no longer is part of him.

Or make that: we seldom manage to outguess movies that play fair (like Sixth Sense, The Crying Game, the original 1960s Planet of the Apes) instead of cheat — usually the «brain in the vat» type of story such as Fight Club, Vanilla Sky and Identity — that thing about the serial killer at the abandoned motel during a rainy night starring John Cusack.

From the director of V for Vendetta, The Raven starring John Cusack, is about a serial killer who uses the stories of Edgar Allan Poe as the inspiration for a series of grisly murders.

Only Donald wants to write the epitome of the brain - dead Hollywood product, a serial killer story with a stupid twist ending.