HOW HOLLYWOOD FELL IN LOVE WITH SERIAL KILLERS!
It was Charlize Theron’s 2003 Oscar-winning turn as female serial killer and prostitute Aileen Wuornos – who brutally killed seven men in 1989 and 1990 – that reignited an explosion in movies and TV shows about serial killers.
Hollywood has long known that terror sells, with fictional characters such as Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, Nosferatu and the Phantom of the Opera frightening cinema goers since the early 1900s.
However, these days fiction has been replaced with reality, and Hollywood is now churning out movies and TV series based on real-life monsters – serial killers more perverse, ghoulish and depraved than even the most imaginative writer could conjure.
Criminals such as Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, David Berkowitz and Wayne Gacy are the objects of today’s horror stories – killers who intrigue and repulse; human riddles we struggle to comprehend.
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