SUMMER OF SAM Production: USA, 1999 Director: Spike Lee Category: Serial Killer/True Crime This film treatment of the Son of Sam case is a strange choice for black director Spike Lee, normally more at home directing vulgar black melodramas or comedies; the director does his best to conjure up the Continue Reading
True Crime
HELTER SKELTER
HELTER SKELTER Production: USA, 1976 Director: Tom Gries Category: True Crime A TV movie based on the book by prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi, in which he boasts about the prowess which enabled him to convict Charles Manson of murder – not really that impressive if you consider that Manson ill-advisedly chose to Continue Reading