The Boston Strangler...

OK. I watched it tonight and it was very good. In fact the ending of it was completely different than I thought. Good casting too.

Thanks, OP!

I did not know they remade the Boston Strangler. There was some debate as to whether he really was.

This version views it from the perspective of two women reporters. The reporters were real people and the story is true and accurate as far as what they did and what they uncovered. I thought it was excellent.

Interesting.

[quote] There was some debate as to whether he really was.

Really was what?

I can’t remember all the ins and outs of it but he confessed to being the Boston Strangler but they had no proof. This is just a quick search I did on it.

It was decent and Keira was good. Reminded me a lot of She Said. That being said, Keira has better movies of a similar nature like Official Secrets or The Imitation Game which she was Oscar nominated for.

My cousin was in her twenties and going to school in Boston when DeSalvo (or whoever) was going about his business. Every woman in the city was terrified.

And they didn't even offer Jamie Lee Curtis a starring role?

Talk about another Oscar snub !

DeSalvo confessed because he thought he would get interviews and book deals to support his family. Law enforecement fed him most of the info on the murders. He was a pervert but probably not a killer.

His grave isn’t that far away from my house.

R11 It was him. We know for a fact he murdered Mary Sullivan through DNA.

Thank heavens for DNA. It's good to lay this ghost to rest. Finally, to know the Boston Strangler was Albert DeSalvo.

Kiera Knightly‘s jaw is the real horror!

I thought this was boring as hell. I turned it off and watched Copycat for the hundredth time.

[quote] I have always liked Kiera Knightly.

[quote] Keira was good

OP, R8 Tell us about your other problems.

Keira has an impressive American accent for this.

Keira has a face shaped like the blade of a shovel.

De Salvo could only be linked to one rape and murder. They used DNA (long after his death). My impression was, he was going to do the thing his friends had done and that he'd agreed to confess to.

If you remember the rest of the murders, the victims seem to fall into two groups. Apparently each group was murdered by one of De Salvo's associates from a mental facility. I think he was also incarcerated previously with one of them in prison.

I only know this from watching the movie.

I never saw the Tony Curtis movie but I did watch that movie with Lee Remick, George Segal and Eileen Heckart.

I guess it was based on the old lady part of the murders.

The serial killer pretending to be a hairdresser during one murder, and a murdered trans prostitute that the killer is especially angy at being fooled by was pretty much the most positive image I could get back then as a little kid.