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11 May

Resident Evil Village: Lady Dimitrescu and the Real Serial Killer Who Inspired Her

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Resident Evil Village, Capcom’s newest vision of horror, unleashed its villain, Lady Alcina Dimitrescu, onto the world in January, and the internet has hardly been the same since. Before we’d even seen anything substantial from the new game, the nine-foot “Tall Vampire Lady” was already the sequel’s most popular character, the subject of countless memes and even a few…salacious mods and videos. With the release of the game this month, Dimitrescu’s star is shining even brighter. We just can’t stop talking about our Lady. And when you hear who the developers at Capcom turned to for inspiration when creating this…
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05 May

The Flash Finally Gave Killer Frost the Redemption Story She Deserves

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The following contains spoilers for The Flash through Season 7, Episode 8, Going into an episode of The Flash with a name like “The People v. Killer Frost,” you know there are certain things, you, as a viewer, are just going to have to accept. The CWs’ Arrowverse, writ large, has next to zero understanding of the American legal system and The Flash is one of the franchise’s worst offenders when it comes to creating believable courtroom drama. Remember when Barry went on trial for a murder he didn’t commit but also just strolled out of the courtroom when he…
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14 Apr

Confronting a Serial Killer Review: The Confession Is Chilling, But the Story Is Balanced

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The new Starz documentary series Confronting a Serial Killer is captivating, immersive and infuriating. One of the first things we learn is how victims are parsed through the criminal justice system. On the scale of homicide priorities, “pretty white college students are the most dead, black hookers are the least dead.” Because it tells a story about an under-represented and largely dismissed cross-section of the community, Confronting a Serial Killer focuses on the victims. Even the journalist spearheading the investigation is a survivor. Putting a human face and voice to statistics is a slowly growing trend in true crime coverage.…
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07 Apr

Ed Gein: The Real Psycho Review – Ghost Hunting a Killer

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Ed Gein is watching. The most influential figure in slasher horror may be long dead, but his eyes are upon us. So are his mother’s. The pair cast a long shadow over the American murder landscape, and you can almost feel them breathing down your neck in discovery+’s new Shock Docs special. Ed Gein: The Real Psycho is a surprisingly fun whistle past a graveyard. Documentary film producer and paranormal investigator Steve Shippy heard the infamous proto-serial killer is still haunting the town he terrorized in life, and invites psychic medium Cindy Kaza to probe the inner darkness. Shippy can…
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30 Jan

Best Serial Killer Movies of the ’90s Ranked

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Someone must have left the freezer door in the morgue open, because grisly reminders of the past are thawing before our eyes. You can see it this weekend with the release of John Lee Hancock’s The Little Things, a throwback to the days when movie stars hung out at crime scenes instead of in spandex, and it’ll be more apparent next month with the launch of Clarice, a television spinoff of 1991’s The Silence of the Lambs. All the evidence points to only one conclusion: the serial killer thrillers of the ‘90s are back! Not that we’re complaining. For a…
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11 Jan

Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer Review – Richard Ramirez Docuseries Speaks Plainly

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Netflix dives into one of the most horrifying cases of multiple murders with its eyes wide open in Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer. The documentary is told from the perspective of the investigators at the heart of the case, particularly a veteran homicide detective and his young, enthusiastic partner. They had nothing going into the case, and when they did dig out the clues, they often lost what they had because of its newsworthiness. The series works because it treats the audience the same way as the cops were treated: infuriatingly. Every clue, setback, and recalculation in…
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12 Dec

Zodiac Killer Code Cracked After 51 Years

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The Zodiac Killer attacked at least eight people in California between 1966 and 1969. He claimed to have killed at least 37 people, although only five of those deaths can be definitively attributed to the killer. While the Zodiac Killer has never been caught, his case is still active, and now one major mystery has been solved: an international team of private citizens and codebreakers have cracked the Zodiac Killer’s mysterious “340 Cipher” 51 years after it landed on the FBI’s desk. Zodiac had a habit of taunting police by sending letters to the press, and several of those contained…
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20 Oct

Do You Feel Like I Do? Review: Peter Frampton Lets Loose With a Killer Solo Memoir

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Just to count it off, Peter Frampton’s Do You Feel Like I Do? A Memoir is as much fun as hearing a talking box guitar solo for the first time. Live and with an audience, of course. Each of Frampton’s best-known albums, either with his bands like Humble Pie or in his solo career, are live records. He may also love the studio albums he made, but just like The Who, whose studio albums he loves, those records are a different breed from a live show. Frampton should know, one of the first gigs he ever got was touring as…
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12 Oct

Killer In Question Limited Series Will Look Beyond Closed Cases

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Conviction does not always mean conclusion. Homicide investigators, by necessity, move on to their next case after the one they worked is closed. Investigation Discovery’s Killer In Question explores what happens when a killer is convicted, but the true culprit is still on the loose? The new four-episode limited series premieres on Sunday, Nov. 1, at 9 p.m. “When a murder is committed, it sends shockwaves through a community,” reads the press statement. “But what happens when a case is closed, yet lingering questions remain? When doubt circulates throughout a city, and investigations are put under a microscope, people begin…
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09 Oct

How Hunt A Killer Expands the Blair Witch Universe with New Horror Game

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This article is presented by: Note: Den of Geek may receive a commission from links on this page. The manila envelope is unmarked and tightly sealed. It takes some effort to tear it open, as if the envelope itself is warning me: “Are you sure you want to see what’s inside? Are you entirely certain you’re up for this?” I answer the question by tearing the package open. As the 10 objects within slide across my desk – a journal, incident report, map, newspaper clipping, and more – it would seem I’ve accepted my role as a detective on the…
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16 Sep

Des Episode 3 Review: a Serial Killer Drama With Brains and Heart

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This Des review contains spoilers. Serial killer dramas have a grimy reputation. The phrase conjures up lurid magazine headlines promising Sick! Twisted! Depravity! and Never-Seen-Before Crime Scene Photos! Think ‘true crime serial killer’, you think of Jack the Ripper tours and David from Psychoville poring over victim stats and working himself to a froth over all the gory details.   To shake off those associations and emerge as nuanced, intelligent and non-exploitative, a drama has to work hard. It has to foreground the human cost and trace a story that doesn’t revel in gore. It requires scripts that build in context and narrative…
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14 Sep

Des Episode 1 Review: David Tennant is Scarily Good as Real-Life Serial Killer

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This Des episode one review contains spoilers.  ITV must be feeling confident about the nation’s emotional resilience. While other channels are scheduling there-there comfort shows to hug us through These Unprecedented Times (there’s a new James Herriot on 5, and the BBC has just finished series four of Strike – a murder show, yes, but one overwhelmingly focussed on the immediate and pressing need for its two comely leads to start boning), ITV brings us the true crime tale of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. From Monday to Wednesday, ITV’s bedtime story will be about decomposing corpses, boiled human heads and a psyche…
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11 Sep

Why Hunt A Killer Is the Perfect Murder Mystery Game for Amateur Sleuths

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This article is sponsored by: Have you ever watched a crime show and thought you could solve the mystery better than the detectives? Is your ideal night out a Murder Mystery Dinner Theater? Are you a true crime aficionado? Do you love deciphering coded messages? If you answered yes to any of those questions, Hunt A Killer may be the game for you. While I will admit to having a low scare tolerance, I’ve loved murder mysteries since growing up on reruns of Murder She Wrote. Given the inaccessibility of events like dinner theater during the pandemic, the idea of…
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11 Sep

The Babysitter: Killer Queen Review

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Just when you thought it was safe to check out Netflix tonight, the streamer has dumped a sequel to its 2017 hit The Babysitter into its endless river of algorithm-calibrated goo. But while some critics apparently found the first movie charming–and appreciated the presence of rising horror-comedy star Samara Weaving (Ready or Not)–The Babysitter: Killer Queen fails on every level to make even a perfunctory case for a follow-up. For one thing, Weaving is not the lead baddie this time around, even if most of the rest of the cast from the original encore here. Now you may ask how…
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05 Sep

BTK: Chasing a Serial Killer Review – A Self-Aggrandizing Psychopath Gets His Wish

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“How many do I have to kill before I get a name in the paper of some national attention,” Dennis Rader asks early in BTK: Chasing a Serial Killer. The elusive strangler wanted to be a hall of famer, along with Jack the Ripper and the Son of Sam. He got off on the killings, and wanted everyone to know it. Investigation Discovery closes out Serial Killer Week with a three-part documentary exploring the psyche of the infamous “BTK” killer, and the devastating effects he had on the community around him. Like many of the murderers profiled during the week,…
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31 Aug

I Didn’t Know It Was Blood Review: One Survivor’s Ordeal Encapsulates a Killer’s M.O.

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Investigation Discovery is premiering all new specials every night for five days during Serial Killer Week. The majority of them are similar in format to many true crime documentaries. But there is a recurring theme among these killers. No one pegged them for psychopathic or sociopathic tormentors in day to day life. They all could have been the guy next door, down the block, or in the next room. That is, until they were trying to escape a room. That’s how “I Didn’t Know It Was Blood,” a special extended 90-minute episode of the series Evil Lives Here, opens. The…
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12 Aug

Serial Killer Week Starts August 30 on ID

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Sharks look out. People are far more vicious, especially when it’s hot. ID is inviting audiences to chill out with America’s most prolific and elusive machines on “Serial Killer Week.” Starting Aug. 30, ID will premiere all-new specials every night at 9 p.m. Over the course of five days, ID will air over 12 hours of original programming. The premieres will include revelations about the infamous “Butcher Baker,” the notorious BTK Killer, and video confessions of Samuel Little, who is rumored to have killed 93 women. “We chose these cases not just because of these macabre monsters, or that each…
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17 Mar

What Lost Girls Didn’t Tell You About the Long Island Serial Killer True Story

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Netflix latest true crime drama Lost Girls tells the story of the Long Island Serial Killer – or elements of the case at least – but there is plenty more to learn about this strange and horrible series of crimes that didn’t make it into the movie. If you’ve seen Lost Girls and want to know more about the true story of the Long Island Serial Killer (aka the Craigslist Killer), here are some of the things the movie changed, omitted or chose not to focus on. This article contains spoilers for Lost Girls (but check out our spoiler free…
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13 Mar

Lost Girls Review: Netflix Takes on the Long Island Serial Killer

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Netflix feels like the right home for this compelling but low-key feature about the Long Island Serial Killer which wisely opts to focus on the families of the victims rather than the unsolved case itself. Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) is sympathetic as Mari Gilbert, a hard-working and harassed single mother whose somewhat estranged eldest daughter Shannan goes missing after making a panicked 911 call from a gated community near Ocean Parkway, NY in the early hours of the morning. But the police take almost an hour to respond to the call, fail to request CCTV footage which might have…
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