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David Tennant Stars As Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen In Limited Series “Des”

There are a lot of true crime fans, including myself. There are a lot of reasons why humanity is obsessed with serial killers and murders, be a it morbid curiosity or the desire to understand why they kill and what drives them. We often see films and series based on killers such as Charlie Manson, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dohmer, this time we will see the story of a lesser-known, but still deadly killer, Dennis Nilsen. A new limited series is coming to ITV that delves into Scottish killer and necrophile Dennis Nilsen who viciously took the lives of twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London. His victims were lured to his home, strangled, and sometimes drowned. Then he would bathe and dress the body which he kept for a time, before dissecting and destroying the remains by either fire or by flushing small segments at a time down a toilet. In the three-part series titled

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 27, 2020
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This September ‘The Silencing’ Will Have You On The Edge Of Your Seat

“Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars in the edge-of-your-seat thriller The Silencing out this September from Lionsgate. Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders,” The Mummy) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) also star in the film about “a reformed hunter (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and a sheriff (Annabelle Wallis) are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse when they set out to track a killer who may have kidnapped the hunter’s daughter five years ago.” Directed by Robin Pront and written by Micah Ranum, The Silencing arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on September 29, 2020. Check out the riveting trailer! BLU-RAY / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES Making The Silencing Creating a Weapon: The Silencing Spear

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 18, 2020
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A Serial Killer Stalks The New ‘Open 24 Hours’ Trailer

Ahead of it release this August, we’ve got the new trailer for writer-director Padraig Reynolds‘ serial killer thriller Open 24 Hours. In the film, “a paranoid delusional woman, Mary White, has just been released from a mental hospital for setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire. Mary suffers from severe paranoia and hallucinations. Her boyfriend, James Lincoln Fields, is a brutal serial killer known as The Rain Ripper. He enjoyed murdering people and making Mary watch. After being released from the Hospital, Mary’s vulnerable demeanor aids her in obtaining employment at an all-night gas station. However, left alone to her own devices, her paranoia and hallucinations return with furious consequences. Things take a gruesome turn when customers and friends suddenly start turning up dead and mutilated all around her… Vanessa Grasse (Mary), Brendan Fletcher (Bobby), Cole Vigue (The Rain Ripper), Emily Tennant (Debbie), and Daniel O’Meara (Tom Doogan) star in the film produced by Shibani Kapur and R.P. Khemanand. Open

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 12, 2020
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Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer

Before the days of YouTube, Netflix and other at-your-fingertips entertainment, staying home sick from school consisted of watching daytime TV. My personal favorite when I was resting on the couch was watching game shows (I loved The Price is Right). I often wondered how people were chosen for participate on the shows, what they did after their 15-minutes of fame, and who they were off the show. For the audience watching The Dating Game in 1978, they didn’t know that they were watching a serial rapist/murderer/child molester with over 100 possible victims. Rodney James Alcala was born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor on August 23, 1943. This man had some of the best luck I have ever read about and the disgusting failures of law enforcement and the judicial system led to so many more victims suffering at the hands of this monster. Alcala’s family life, like many killers, was not ideal. His father, Raoul, left when Alcala was about 11

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Capt McNeely
Jul 9, 2020
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True Crime Doc ‘Yancey McCord: The Killer That Arizona Forgot About’ Now On Prime

True crime buffs, we’ve got news for you, the documentary Yancey McCord: The Killer that Arizona Forgot About has just landed on Amazon Prime Video. Who is Yancey McCord? He is believed to have committed the familicide of the Jenkins clan in Kindred Township, Arizona in 1961. The victims included both parents, three children, and two visiting cousins resulting in seven gruesome deaths in one home. McCord was taken in and held in custody. But sixteen hours later, he went missing after either an escape or release by the community’s only police officer. McCord was never pursued by authorities for this crime, essentially slipping through the cracks for nearly 60 years after disappearing from Kindred… until now. Stunned by the event, the unincorporated township of Kindred went from a population of 171 to an estimated 30 within 5 years, becoming a real ghost town. Is Yancey McCord still in Arizona? Free or imprisoned? Dead or alive? The answers are unbelievable

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 25, 2020
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Elijah Wood Starring In New Ted Bundy Movie ‘No Man Of God’

Serial killer Ted Bundy remains one of the most popular killers in history. A new movie about the killer, No Man of God, is set to star Elijah Wood as an FBI analyst assigned to the case. The film is largely set in a single interrogation room, according to Deadline. And is based on real transcripts culled from interrogations between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Wood) and Bundy that took place from 1984 to 1989. It will explore the relationship between the two men during the killer’s final years on death row. Casting for No Man of God is ongoing with the search on for the actor who will play Ted Bundy. Amber Sealy is in the director’s chair for the try crime movie. C. Robert Cargill penned the script. Elijah Wood will be producing along with Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, and Kim Sherman. Scott Derrickson, Bill Hagmaier, Stacey Jorgensen, and Mark Ward are executive producing. XYZ is handling international sales.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 18, 2020
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Brutal New Trailer Unleashed For Canadian Slasher ‘Butchers’

A group of friends is stranded in real hell and must fight to survive the attacks of the most brutal brothers in America. Torture and madness will follow in the Canadian slasher Butchers, just acquired by Black Mandala. We’ve got the first poster and teaser trailer for Butchers, filled with brutality and blood! Writer-director-producer Adrian Langley‘s Butchers stars Simon Phillips, Michael Swatton, Julie Mainville, Anne-Carolyne Binette, James Hicks, Nick Allan, Blake Canning, Samantha De Benedet, Frederik Storm, and Jonathan Largy. In the film co-written by Daniel Weissenberger, a family of sadistic butchers has dug into the backcountry and, from the deep freeze of winter to the dog days of summer, anyone who crosses their path is dead meat. Adrian Langley, Doug Phillips, and Kevin Preece produce with Michael Kraetzer and Nicolás Onetti serving as associate producers. A release date should be announced soon. In the meantime, check out the insane trailer.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 17, 2020
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At Least 215 Victims: The Story of Dr. Harold Shipman

A successful doctor, vice-captain of his college athletics team, and devoted family man. Harold Frederick Shipman seemed to have it made. He had life figured out…on the surface. Shipman was born in Nottingham, England on 12 May, 1914. His devout Methodist parents were working-class citizens who raised their three children to be hard working, pillar members of their community. Tragedy struck when Shipman’s mother died of lung cancer when he was 17 years old. Shipman was very close with his mother and was often there to watch her doctors administer morphine to help ease her pain as she passed away. This medical treatment must have had an effect on the young man as it became his preferred method of murder years later. However, for now, Shipman’s life continued on track. On 5 November, 1966 he married Primrose May Oxtoby and they had four children together. Four years later he graduated from the Leeds School of Medicine, opened his own practice

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Capt McNeely
Jun 13, 2020
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A Killer Strikes In The First Trailer For ‘6:45’ Starring Thomas G. Waites & Remy Ma

Director-producer Craig Singer (Dark Ride, Perkins ’14) has debuted the first look at his latest horror film 6:45. The time loop slasher follows a young couple in love who take a romantic weekend getaway to an island where things go terribly wrong. The first teaser and images have been released in celebration of the film’s completion. Bobby Patterson is hoping a weekend getaway will save his rocky relationship with his girlfriend Jules Rables. The couple arrives in the quiet island resort of Bog Grove. To their bewilderment, the sleepy beach town is curiously deserted and they quickly learn about the deadly history that’s about to repeat itself. Bobby’s struggles with Jules are cast aside in order to overcome a dementing cycle of terror they find themselves trapped in. No matter what he does to try to avoid it, he and his girlfriend wake up at 6:45 each morning to the same nightmarish chain of events that lead to them being

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 1, 2020
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Slasher ‘PandaMonium’ Getting A U.S. Release

The infamous panda headed serial killer returns in writer-director MJ Dixon‘s slasher PandaMonium is headed to DVD and HD Digital in the US this June. In the prequel to the cult horror Slasher House II (2016) where we were first introduced to the infamous Panda-headed killer Jacob Jakushi (David Hon Ma Chu), Jacob now makes a return in the characters first standalone film. The guys on Level 6 like to work hard, and party harder, that means the best booze, the finest drugs, and hottest women money can buy. Unfortunately for them the Strippers they’ve just hired have come with an unwanted guest. Jacob, Jakushi, the infamous ‘Stripper Ripper’ with an oversized Panda mask and a taste for exotic dancers has these girls in his sights and he’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. It’s now Strippers VS PandaHeaded Serial Killer as they fight to survive the office party from hell. Writer-director MJ Dixon had the following to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020

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David Tennant Stars As Serial Killer Dennis Nilsen In Limited Series “Des”

There are a lot of true crime fans, including myself. There are a lot of reasons why humanity is obsessed with serial killers and murders, be a it morbid curiosity or the desire to understand why they kill and what drives them. We often see films and series based on killers such as Charlie Manson, Ted Bundy, and Jeffrey Dohmer, this time we will see the story of a lesser-known, but still deadly killer, Dennis Nilsen. A new limited series is coming to ITV that delves into Scottish killer and necrophile Dennis Nilsen who viciously took the lives of twelve young men and boys between 1978 and 1983 in London. His victims were lured to his home, strangled, and sometimes drowned. Then he would bathe and dress the body which he kept for a time, before dissecting and destroying the remains by either fire or by flushing small segments at a time down a toilet. In the three-part series titled

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 27, 2020
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This September ‘The Silencing’ Will Have You On The Edge Of Your Seat

“Game of Thrones” actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau stars in the edge-of-your-seat thriller The Silencing out this September from Lionsgate. Annabelle Wallis (Peaky Blinders,” The Mummy) and Hero Fiennes Tiffin (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince) also star in the film about “a reformed hunter (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and a sheriff (Annabelle Wallis) are caught in a deadly game of cat and mouse when they set out to track a killer who may have kidnapped the hunter’s daughter five years ago.” Directed by Robin Pront and written by Micah Ranum, The Silencing arrives on Blu-ray, DVD, and Digital on September 29, 2020. Check out the riveting trailer! BLU-RAY / DVD SPECIAL FEATURES Making The Silencing Creating a Weapon: The Silencing Spear

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 18, 2020
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A Serial Killer Stalks The New ‘Open 24 Hours’ Trailer

Ahead of it release this August, we’ve got the new trailer for writer-director Padraig Reynolds‘ serial killer thriller Open 24 Hours. In the film, “a paranoid delusional woman, Mary White, has just been released from a mental hospital for setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire. Mary suffers from severe paranoia and hallucinations. Her boyfriend, James Lincoln Fields, is a brutal serial killer known as The Rain Ripper. He enjoyed murdering people and making Mary watch. After being released from the Hospital, Mary’s vulnerable demeanor aids her in obtaining employment at an all-night gas station. However, left alone to her own devices, her paranoia and hallucinations return with furious consequences. Things take a gruesome turn when customers and friends suddenly start turning up dead and mutilated all around her… Vanessa Grasse (Mary), Brendan Fletcher (Bobby), Cole Vigue (The Rain Ripper), Emily Tennant (Debbie), and Daniel O’Meara (Tom Doogan) star in the film produced by Shibani Kapur and R.P. Khemanand. Open

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 12, 2020
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Rodney Alcala: The Dating Game Killer

Before the days of YouTube, Netflix and other at-your-fingertips entertainment, staying home sick from school consisted of watching daytime TV. My personal favorite when I was resting on the couch was watching game shows (I loved The Price is Right). I often wondered how people were chosen for participate on the shows, what they did after their 15-minutes of fame, and who they were off the show. For the audience watching The Dating Game in 1978, they didn’t know that they were watching a serial rapist/murderer/child molester with over 100 possible victims. Rodney James Alcala was born Rodrigo Jacques Alcala Buquor on August 23, 1943. This man had some of the best luck I have ever read about and the disgusting failures of law enforcement and the judicial system led to so many more victims suffering at the hands of this monster. Alcala’s family life, like many killers, was not ideal. His father, Raoul, left when Alcala was about 11

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jul 9, 2020
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True Crime Doc ‘Yancey McCord: The Killer That Arizona Forgot About’ Now On Prime

True crime buffs, we’ve got news for you, the documentary Yancey McCord: The Killer that Arizona Forgot About has just landed on Amazon Prime Video. Who is Yancey McCord? He is believed to have committed the familicide of the Jenkins clan in Kindred Township, Arizona in 1961. The victims included both parents, three children, and two visiting cousins resulting in seven gruesome deaths in one home. McCord was taken in and held in custody. But sixteen hours later, he went missing after either an escape or release by the community’s only police officer. McCord was never pursued by authorities for this crime, essentially slipping through the cracks for nearly 60 years after disappearing from Kindred… until now. Stunned by the event, the unincorporated township of Kindred went from a population of 171 to an estimated 30 within 5 years, becoming a real ghost town. Is Yancey McCord still in Arizona? Free or imprisoned? Dead or alive? The answers are unbelievable

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 25, 2020
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Elijah Wood Starring In New Ted Bundy Movie ‘No Man Of God’

Serial killer Ted Bundy remains one of the most popular killers in history. A new movie about the killer, No Man of God, is set to star Elijah Wood as an FBI analyst assigned to the case. The film is largely set in a single interrogation room, according to Deadline. And is based on real transcripts culled from interrogations between FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier (Wood) and Bundy that took place from 1984 to 1989. It will explore the relationship between the two men during the killer’s final years on death row. Casting for No Man of God is ongoing with the search on for the actor who will play Ted Bundy. Amber Sealy is in the director’s chair for the try crime movie. C. Robert Cargill penned the script. Elijah Wood will be producing along with Daniel Noah, Lisa Whalen, and Kim Sherman. Scott Derrickson, Bill Hagmaier, Stacey Jorgensen, and Mark Ward are executive producing. XYZ is handling international sales.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 18, 2020
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Brutal New Trailer Unleashed For Canadian Slasher ‘Butchers’

A group of friends is stranded in real hell and must fight to survive the attacks of the most brutal brothers in America. Torture and madness will follow in the Canadian slasher Butchers, just acquired by Black Mandala. We’ve got the first poster and teaser trailer for Butchers, filled with brutality and blood! Writer-director-producer Adrian Langley‘s Butchers stars Simon Phillips, Michael Swatton, Julie Mainville, Anne-Carolyne Binette, James Hicks, Nick Allan, Blake Canning, Samantha De Benedet, Frederik Storm, and Jonathan Largy. In the film co-written by Daniel Weissenberger, a family of sadistic butchers has dug into the backcountry and, from the deep freeze of winter to the dog days of summer, anyone who crosses their path is dead meat. Adrian Langley, Doug Phillips, and Kevin Preece produce with Michael Kraetzer and Nicolás Onetti serving as associate producers. A release date should be announced soon. In the meantime, check out the insane trailer.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 17, 2020
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At Least 215 Victims: The Story of Dr. Harold Shipman

A successful doctor, vice-captain of his college athletics team, and devoted family man. Harold Frederick Shipman seemed to have it made. He had life figured out…on the surface. Shipman was born in Nottingham, England on 12 May, 1914. His devout Methodist parents were working-class citizens who raised their three children to be hard working, pillar members of their community. Tragedy struck when Shipman’s mother died of lung cancer when he was 17 years old. Shipman was very close with his mother and was often there to watch her doctors administer morphine to help ease her pain as she passed away. This medical treatment must have had an effect on the young man as it became his preferred method of murder years later. However, for now, Shipman’s life continued on track. On 5 November, 1966 he married Primrose May Oxtoby and they had four children together. Four years later he graduated from the Leeds School of Medicine, opened his own practice

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Jun 13, 2020
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A Killer Strikes In The First Trailer For ‘6:45’ Starring Thomas G. Waites & Remy Ma

Director-producer Craig Singer (Dark Ride, Perkins ’14) has debuted the first look at his latest horror film 6:45. The time loop slasher follows a young couple in love who take a romantic weekend getaway to an island where things go terribly wrong. The first teaser and images have been released in celebration of the film’s completion. Bobby Patterson is hoping a weekend getaway will save his rocky relationship with his girlfriend Jules Rables. The couple arrives in the quiet island resort of Bog Grove. To their bewilderment, the sleepy beach town is curiously deserted and they quickly learn about the deadly history that’s about to repeat itself. Bobby’s struggles with Jules are cast aside in order to overcome a dementing cycle of terror they find themselves trapped in. No matter what he does to try to avoid it, he and his girlfriend wake up at 6:45 each morning to the same nightmarish chain of events that lead to them being

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jun 1, 2020
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Slasher ‘PandaMonium’ Getting A U.S. Release

The infamous panda headed serial killer returns in writer-director MJ Dixon‘s slasher PandaMonium is headed to DVD and HD Digital in the US this June. In the prequel to the cult horror Slasher House II (2016) where we were first introduced to the infamous Panda-headed killer Jacob Jakushi (David Hon Ma Chu), Jacob now makes a return in the characters first standalone film. The guys on Level 6 like to work hard, and party harder, that means the best booze, the finest drugs, and hottest women money can buy. Unfortunately for them the Strippers they’ve just hired have come with an unwanted guest. Jacob, Jakushi, the infamous ‘Stripper Ripper’ with an oversized Panda mask and a taste for exotic dancers has these girls in his sights and he’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. It’s now Strippers VS PandaHeaded Serial Killer as they fight to survive the office party from hell. Writer-director MJ Dixon had the following to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
May 29, 2020
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