Stephanie Ward
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Killing the Big Screen
Obsession with serial killers and their crimes have been prevalent since the 1970s. You may find yourself asking why, and you wouldn’t be alone. As it turns out, it’s not that weird. In the 1970s, media started increasing in popularity. It was a golden age of enlightenment. But like every step forward there were unexpected side effects. By popularizing and making serial killers and their crimes the focus of media attention it created a subsect of people with a psychological attraction to these larger-than-life cultural celebrities. Because of the mainstream popularity of these macabre celebs, the lines between fictional killers and their crimes and nonfiction ones became a little blurry. Many people will have the same reaction to a pretend movie killer as they will to talking about the kills of Jack the Ripper or Ted Bundy. Due to this cultural desensitization, TV shows, movies, and video games tend to glorify their sadistic trade. Movies like Silence of the Lambs, American Psycho, Scream, Seven, and The Bone Collector have been immensely popular. These are artistic renditions of killers and their fantasies. Some of these movies are even award winning and have become cult-classics or horror movie favorites. You may ask yourself if there are movies you can watch about real life serial killers that tried not to veer too far off from the facts but aren’t documentaries. There is! I am going to highlight several movies that tried to stick with the facts and ended up being just what the doctor ordered for those people attracted to the dark.
By Stephanie Ward6 years ago in Criminal