Rotten
A garishly slick piece of exploitation with surprisingly high production values but nary a moment of suspense.
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times
The Hillside Strangler
They lived to watch you die.
2004 · 1h 37m · R
Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Directed by
Chuck Parello
Overview
Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the cousins decide to start an escort agency. After violently killing a prostitute they thought had betrayed them, Kenneth and Angelo begin committing a series of crimes that become a media sensation.
Director and cast
- Chuck Parello Director
- Allison Lange as Claire Shelton
- Nicholas Turturro as Angelo Buono
- C. Thomas Howell as Kenneth Bianchi
- Zarah Little as Carrie Ploskonko
- Jennifer Tisdale as Erin
- Kent King as Gabrielle
- Aimee Brooks as Felicia Waller
- Natasha Melnick as Karyn
- Brandin Rackley as Janice Cooley
- Lin Shaye as Jenny Buono
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
15%
Tomatometer
Rotten
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.
Dana Stevens, New York Times
Rotten
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.
Ron Stringer, L.A. Weekly
Rotten
Another repulsive, fetishistic trawl through the life and crimes of a serial killer.
Megan Lehmann, New York Post
Rotten
Here's one for the Sick Voyeurs Club.
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News
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