The Iceman Confesses: Secrets of a Mafia Hitman2001

Name: The Iceman Confesses: Secrets of a Mafia Hitman
Genre: Psychological
Released: 2001-03-01
Rating: 7.3

“He's killed over 125 people, one at a time... sometimes just for practice.”

Directed by Arthur Ginsberg

7.3

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 7.6TMDB 7.3

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#2·Top Horror Movies of 2001 #20·Top Horror Movies of the 2000s

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Year

2001

Runtime

43 min

The premise

Richard Kuklinski was a devoted husband, a loving father...and a ruthless killer. A decade after HBO last visited him in prison, the convicted murderer, who freely admits having whacked more than 100 people in cold blood, takes viewers back inside his cold, calculating mind. In this follow-up to America Undercover's 1992 film The Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer, Kuklinski provides all-new insights about his exploits as one of the Mafia's most notorious assassins...and reveals some shocking confessions for a number of previously unsolved murders.

Horror Vault's take

More than a decade after his first on-camera interview, convicted contract killer Richard Kuklinski sits down once again to walk viewers through his life as one of the Mafia's most feared assassins. What makes these conversations uniquely disturbing is the casual, almost detached manner in which he recounts acts of extreme violence — a man who reportedly inhabited two entirely separate worlds simultaneously. This HBO documentary follow-up presses deeper into Kuklinski's psychology, surfacing new admissions that cast fresh light on cold cases. It is less a true-crime recap than a prolonged, uncomfortable stare into the mind of a self-described killer.

Content: Graphic Descriptions Of Violence, Detailed Accounts Of Murder, Disturbing Content