FilmRPsychological Survival Splatter & Gore

The Hillside Strangler2004

Name: The Hillside Strangler
Genre: Psychological, Survival, Splatter & Gore
Released: 2004-11-12
Rating: 4.9

“They lived to watch you die.”

Directed by Chuck Parello

4.9

Crypt Score

Blended from 4 sources

IMDb 5.3Rotten Tomatoes 9%Metacritic 19TMDB 5.1

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Year

2004

Runtime

97 min

Box Office

Budget

$1,400,000

Domestic

$4,143

🏆 1 nomination

The premise

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.

Horror Vault's take

Based on the real-life crimes that terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s, this film traces the chilling descent of Kenneth Bianchi from frustrated would-be cop to notorious killer. Relocating to California and falling under the influence of his cousin Angelo, Bianchi's fixation on sex and power begins to curdle into something far darker. The film charts how two ordinary men built a world of exploitation that spiraled into a brutal killing spree, and how their crimes gripped an entire city with fear.

Content: Sexual Violence Including Rape, Graphic Violence, Strangulation Depictions, Strong Language, Depictions Of Prostitution And Exploitation, Disturbing Content Involving Murder Of Women