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06/24/06
Hillside Strangler (2004)
17 %
Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 2 Rotten:10 Average Rating: 3.3/10
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Synopsis: HILLSIDE STRANGLER posits an alternative theory about the serial killings that rocked San Francisco in the late 1970s. Many assumed at the time that a lone predator was responsible, but this film suggests it was the work of two cousins. From the producers of TED BUNDY and ED GEIN, HILLSIDE... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Nicholas Turturro, C. Thomas Howell
Director: Chuck Parello
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03/13/05
Top Critic
Feels very cheesy due to its awkward, period-style acting and directing. But it's also chillingly informative.
10/19/04
Dumbed down and sexed up, 'Hillside' cashes in on the overtly lurid aspects of the murders while giving short shrift to the more interesting psychological aspects of the case.
11/06/04
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10/19/04
Top Critic
A garishly slick piece of exploitation with surprisingly high production values but nary a moment of suspense.
10/15/04
Top Critic
Career-wise, no one really stands to benefit from the film, with the exception of Turturro, who shows he's ready for bigger cinematic opportunities.
10/15/04
This relentlessly unpleasant film documents the true story of cousins whose murder spree in late 1970's Los Angeles was at first attributed to a lone killer known as the Hillside Strangler.
10/14/04
Top Critic
A good horse kick, or a fistful of Valium, may help you get through this relentlessly sadistic exercise with your soul more or less intact.
10/14/04
Parello's deadpan re-creation of the stranglers' repellent war on women is all the more chilling for being so matter-of-fact, and cinematographer John Pirozzi flawlessly evokes the grit-and-grime look of low-budget '70s crime films.
10/12/04
Another repulsive, fetishistic trawl through the life and crimes of a serial killer.
10/12/04
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