For years, all I could remember was a figure in the woods stabbing someone. It was so simple, and so cold. No fancy camera work. No overdramatic score. None of the sound effects you’re accustomed to hearing during these moments. Just the hollow sound of a knife entering and departing its destination over and over.
A quick Google search and I had my answer. The movie was 1995’s Citizen X. An HBO made-for-tv movie that must have been aired constantly at the time. They were very proud of this one, as they should have been. It’s a strange, sweeping movie. Part political and historical drama and part grizzly crime film. After re-watching, I realized there was a reason it stuck with me.
Citizen X is one of the most underrated serial killer movies ever made.
(Unfortunately) Based on a True Story
Based on Robert Cullen’s book The Killer Department,...
A quick Google search and I had my answer. The movie was 1995’s Citizen X. An HBO made-for-tv movie that must have been aired constantly at the time. They were very proud of this one, as they should have been. It’s a strange, sweeping movie. Part political and historical drama and part grizzly crime film. After re-watching, I realized there was a reason it stuck with me.
Citizen X is one of the most underrated serial killer movies ever made.
(Unfortunately) Based on a True Story
Based on Robert Cullen’s book The Killer Department,...
- 10/11/2023
- by Mike Holtz
- bloody-disgusting.com
After presenting a list of hot TV series with the grim central trend of “we may survive” last year, the folks at The Wit identified “we are all survivors” as the main theme running through this year’s Fresh TV fiction selection.
Presented at MipTV by Wit CEO and co-founder Virginia Mouseler, the 2021 selection is headlined by Russell T. Davies’ Channel 4 drama “It’s a Sin,” which Mouseler described as “era defining.”
“It’s the series I found the most tragic, the most moving, the most stimulating this season. It’s a story of survival, but above all it’s a story of liberation,” Mouseler said.
The list is littered with serial killer and abduction dramas, with crime and cop shows in general making up around 70% of the selections.
One might have expected more comedies or escapist fare, given the world’s pandemic predicament, but Mouseler and company only selected...
Presented at MipTV by Wit CEO and co-founder Virginia Mouseler, the 2021 selection is headlined by Russell T. Davies’ Channel 4 drama “It’s a Sin,” which Mouseler described as “era defining.”
“It’s the series I found the most tragic, the most moving, the most stimulating this season. It’s a story of survival, but above all it’s a story of liberation,” Mouseler said.
The list is littered with serial killer and abduction dramas, with crime and cop shows in general making up around 70% of the selections.
One might have expected more comedies or escapist fare, given the world’s pandemic predicament, but Mouseler and company only selected...
- 4/14/2021
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
One of the most troubling problems with the true-crime genre, if you ask the hosts of the megahit Last Podcast on the Left, can be summed up with the 2019 Netflix docuseries Conversations With a Killer, or, as co-host Marcus Parks calls it, “that fucking Ted Bundy series.” Parks and his Last Podcast co-creators frequently deride the documentary — as well as Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, the contemporaneous biopic starring Zac Efron — for making the serial killer seem brilliant and suave, while glossing over less-appealing details. “I think it’s...
- 4/28/2020
- by Andrea Marks
- Rollingstone.com
Over two decades ago, I traveled to a city in the Russian provinces called Rostov-On-Don to interview a psychiatrist named Alexander Bukhanovsky.
Bukhanovsky, now deceased, was famous. If you’ve seen the movie Citizen X, about the capture of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Bukhanovsky was the guy played by Max Von Sydow. He was the Soviet Union’s first criminal profiler.
One of the first things he said was that both Russia and America produced disproportionate shares of mass killers.
“Giant militarized countries,” he said, “breed violent populations.”
Bukhanovsky at...
Bukhanovsky, now deceased, was famous. If you’ve seen the movie Citizen X, about the capture of serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, Bukhanovsky was the guy played by Max Von Sydow. He was the Soviet Union’s first criminal profiler.
One of the first things he said was that both Russia and America produced disproportionate shares of mass killers.
“Giant militarized countries,” he said, “breed violent populations.”
Bukhanovsky at...
- 2/16/2018
- by Matt Taibbi
- Rollingstone.com
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