What are the best films about serial killers? True crime stuff

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>>79296867
Not exactly a serial killer, but I highly recommend The Imposter.

Probably my favorite documentary, which is actually a kino disguised as a documentary

>>79296867
From Hell (2001)
Summer of Sam (1999)

>>79296867
Watch the channel Investigation Discovery

>>79297004
I would but I don't have cable anymore.

>>79296867
Ted Bundy seemed okay, too bad porn ruined him.

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>>79296867
Citizen X. Really good serial killer film. Uniquely and starkly filmed, it depicts a bungled Soviet investigation of the Rostov Ripper, a sex-killer who the Soviets are reluctant to admit even exists, because serial killers are supposedly a "decadent Western phenomenon."

The two leads, Stephen Rea and Donald Sutherland, are both flawed, realistic men who are deeply changed by the case, with Rea becoming more cynical and Sutherland more idealistic. You can really feel Rea's desperation as he tries to find the killer, and Sutherland has some wonderful lines.

Jeffrey DeMunn, as the Ripper, is probably the best portrayal of a serial killer I've ever seen. He's just a weak, pathetic nobody who rapes/mutilates random women and children so that he can feel powerful. He's not really sympathetic, but he's not over-the-top creepy and loathsome either.

Max Von Sydow is in fine form as usual as a profiler, as is Joss Ackland as an obstructive Soviet bureaucrat.

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>>79296867
Why is everyone always shitposting Ted Bundy type and not Gary? He killed tons more.

>>79298111
Have there been any good movies or anything about Ridgeway? If not, that's why.

>>79298161
It's probably because he had less charisma, and no hooks like Gacy had, i.e. "he dressed up as a clown once... KILLER CLOWN MOVIE LOL".
Ridgway was just kind of an average dreary manlet, unerachiever, kind of mentally slow but not retarded. I think people like him represent serial killers far better than the evil genius / social manipulator trope that Bundy and Manson started.

Silence of the Lambs

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>>79296867
How come absolutely no-one has mentioned the no. 1 masterpiece: Memories of Murder?

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>>79298111
Yeah but he killed prostitutes only, which is easymode. Bundy was a cunning savage who eviscerated college girls. Makes him more interesting IMO