“Hunt for the killer: Monster”. About America’s most notorious serial killer

Killer Hunt: Monster (Eileen Wuornos: American boogeywoman in the original version) is a 2021 crime thriller directed by Daniel Farrands. This is a remake of the very popular Monsters 2003 Cast Charlize Theron. 2021 film dedicated to youth Eileen Wuornoswoman who killed seven men between 1989 and 1990. She is considered the #1 serial killer in the United States.

In the cast Peyton List AND Tobin Bell they play the main roles Eileen Wuornos AND Lewis Fell, a tycoon with whom the woman was married for several weeks. In minor roles, but also very present Lydia Hurst in the role Jennifer Felldaughter of Lewis. The film is set in Los Angeles and California in general. 1428 films in collaboration with green light clip art AND Photos of Redwire.

Available at Sky AND NOW TV from August 3, 2023.

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In 2002 Eileen Wuornos (Peyton List, Ashley Atwood) is a woman serving a sentence on death row. Tell the documentary filmmaker about the time and place where it all began. In 1974, 20-year-old Eileen works as a prostitute. She learned to defend herself against unscrupulous men. We consistently observe one of his attempts to escape from the buyer, remorselessly handling a knife. He then infiltrates the life of a girl he meets by a campfire, who is fascinated by his ability to navigate difficult situations.

Lewis (Tobin Bell), Jennifer’s father (Lydia Hurst), a wealthy elderly commodore whom Eileen quickly impresses. The two marry under the incredulous looks of the Fell family’s friends and family. Eileen cannot change, and her past comes back to visit her, in a death spiral that will consume anyone who meets her.

IN Killer Hunt: Monster, except for the opening sequence, the story takes place in the exact past, telling of events that revolved around the relationship between Eileen and the Fell family. Although it is not mentioned in the film, a past of violence and pain can be seen in Eileen’s life up to the point at which it was told.

Killer Hunt: Monster“imperfect” reconstruction of facts

Some events have the power to engage the viewer even before they frame the material of the film. When a story is inspired by “real events”, especially if there are murders on the subject, curiosity takes over and some directors tend to speculate on it. From 2019 to 2021, Daniel Farrands he made three films with the same matrix: a biographical brace in murders committed by famous American assassins. Especially with Ted Bundy: American Boogeymanprevious film Hunt for the killer, the director works on the same script. This can be a big risk when the facts don’t match. Even to a less attentive viewer, the director’s approach seems inaccurate and biased in the reconstruction of events, at least imaginary.

Eileen was executed in 2002 by lethal injection in Rayford, Florida. Psychiatric reports repeatedly found her capable of understanding and willingness. She was found guilty of 7 murders. In prison, he declared that he despises life and still wants to do harm. The personological features of a woman are adequately conveyed Peyton List

, but the darkness of the past, the horrific root of the past violence, is missing. Eileen married her schizophrenic father when she was 15, with whom she had her first child. He was imprisoned on charges of child abuse and hanged himself in prison. The woman was entrusted to her grandparents, but even there she was oppressed. Her grandfather was an alcoholic, she was raped by a family friend, and Eileen became pregnant. She began prostitution to support herself after her grandmother died of liver failure.

A life littered with such disasters deserves further study, at least to make the character more stratified. Not to proclaim one’s innocence, of course, but for a more interesting or “credible” understanding of the woman’s experience.

Unfortunately wrong movie

The appeal of the genre and “magnet” stories seems to be a priority for the director. Even in the choice of actors and in the type of work on the characters, aesthetic, expressive and verbal, there is little relation to real people, despite the noticeable and serious attempts on the part of the performers. The script is dull and filled with moments of genre deja vu. For example, when Eileen says, “You don’t beat a rattlesnake with a stick expecting it won’t bite you.” However, given that Peyton List is a young actress from the world Disneythis may have influenced the decision to play the role of a great upheaval in the path that has been blazed so far.

On the other hand, the voice – and face – Ashley Atwood

in the role of Eileen from prison, even if the risk of jumping to the opposite interpretive level is quite obvious. The interpreter seeks to give the character complexity, but the result is a dramatic and comical portrait of a woman who struggles with always toxic men. And it happens in a strange tale of female empowerment, with a cinematic focus justified this time. A lot of confusion.

From a purely stylistic point of view, Killer Hunt: Monster it’s exquisitely dated and noir, including the interiors and costumes. It leaves a bitter taste in the mouth when watching a movie where all the pieces are out of place.

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