The Hillside Strangler

  • Drama
  • Horror
  • Mystery
  • Thriller
11/12/2004
97
R

They lived to watch you die.

Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the cousins decide to start an escort agency. After violently killing a prostitute they thought had betrayed them, Kenneth and Angelo begin committing a series of crimes that become a media sensation.

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$1,400,000

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  • John Chard

    Hardly Kissing Cousins.

    Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono were two cousins who were convicted of the rape, torture and murder of 10 females of various ages in LA 1977/78. This film is an interpretation of their reign of terror.

    Unpleasant. If you are going to do a serial killer movie, one based on real life perpetrators, then you surely have to make the characterisations of fascination value away from their despicable crimes. Unfortunately director Chuck Parello and co-writer Stephen Johnston fail to do this, leaving the film with a paucity of worthwhile human story moments. Its not helped by the fact Nicholas Torturro as Buono is badly miscast, hes just impossible to take serious in a role that calls for the ultimate seriousness.

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    December 1, 2014

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