10 Rillington Place is a biographical tale about serial killer John Christie who murdered seven women in his own home. Seemingly perfectly respectable to the outside world, he gives a room to hardworking, though not to bright, Timothy Evans and his wife Beryl and baby daughter Geraldine. Christie then uses his excellent wit against Evans to kill Beryl and Geraldine, and get Evans wrongfully sent to the gallows for the murders.
I find it very hard to sit through movies over 90 minutes long, but 10 Rillington Place kept me hooked all through it's 2 hour running time. It's wonderfully told and chilling all the way through. Though I had no idea what the movie was when I started watching it, and would have turned it off had John Hurt's name not been on the opening credits, I'm glad I stuck with it because it's one of the best movies I've ever seen. Though deeply disturbing, sad, and very creepy it's a movie that deserves to be watched.
It's watch-ability is helped tremendously by the performances from Richard Attenborough and John Hurt. Attenborough is worryingly convincing as the necrophiliac. He plays Christie with such subtlety that he makes the character truly terrifying and unpredictable. You can almost see all the complex and murderous plotting going on behind his eyes. And Hurt, always a very versatile actor, is terrific as Timothy Evans. His reactions to events as they unfold are so accurate and heartfelt that you really feel terrible for him and the moment he is send to the gallows is horrible.
If you come by 10 Rillington Place, whether it's on TV or you come by it on DVD or video (I don't know if it's available on DVD), you really should watch it. Though at times it is a very horrible movie to watch, it is one of those movies that truly deserves to be seen. And I can't praise Attenborough and Hurt enough for their performances. They both deserve Oscars.
I find it very hard to sit through movies over 90 minutes long, but 10 Rillington Place kept me hooked all through it's 2 hour running time. It's wonderfully told and chilling all the way through. Though I had no idea what the movie was when I started watching it, and would have turned it off had John Hurt's name not been on the opening credits, I'm glad I stuck with it because it's one of the best movies I've ever seen. Though deeply disturbing, sad, and very creepy it's a movie that deserves to be watched.
It's watch-ability is helped tremendously by the performances from Richard Attenborough and John Hurt. Attenborough is worryingly convincing as the necrophiliac. He plays Christie with such subtlety that he makes the character truly terrifying and unpredictable. You can almost see all the complex and murderous plotting going on behind his eyes. And Hurt, always a very versatile actor, is terrific as Timothy Evans. His reactions to events as they unfold are so accurate and heartfelt that you really feel terrible for him and the moment he is send to the gallows is horrible.
If you come by 10 Rillington Place, whether it's on TV or you come by it on DVD or video (I don't know if it's available on DVD), you really should watch it. Though at times it is a very horrible movie to watch, it is one of those movies that truly deserves to be seen. And I can't praise Attenborough and Hurt enough for their performances. They both deserve Oscars.