The Boston Strangler
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme crime / thriller, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from the point of view of the investigators who have very few clues to build a case upon.
Our read · The Boston Strangler (1968) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive crime · thriller · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of The Boston Strangler
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