This film is based on the true story of Charlie Starkweather and his girlfriend who were two fucked up individuals who went on a killing spree though Nebraska and Wyoming in 1958. Now Starkweather did all the killing himself while his 14 year old girlfriend loved the fact that most of the killing he did was for her. He killed over eleven people in cold blood and the movie makes no attempt to sugar coat this true story at all. Starkweather was a wannabe James Dean, He wanted to an actor instead he got to be famous for murdering people instead.
The movie is pretty good in depicting how much of a cold blooded killer Starkweather was, the film starts off with Starkweather as a child holding a toad in a field, while doing so an unknown man approaches him and asks what is he going to do with the frog? he replies saying there’s not much I can do. Well the man tells him that he has the power to let the toad live or die. So the young Starkweather kills the frog in cold blood. for no reason at all. Now the film depicts Starkweather has having this unknown man following him around that only he can see. It’s a demon figure of some kind or evil spirit. Well from there the killing begins. The plot is great for a small budget straight to video film, It has that low budget, made for Television feel, but it’s a good movie that fasted paced and you won’t get bored watching it. I honestly enjoyed the story as it unfolded on my TV screen.
The acting is not that bad either, I mean everyone played their parts well and I felt that I was taken back to the late 1950’s and the style of life they had then in the states. there is no T & A at all in the film but we almost have a rape scene between the the body of a freshly killed virgin girl and Starkweather right after he kills her and her boyfriend. However that is stopped by his girlfriend Carol Ann.
As far as effects go there really is not much in the terms of gore but their is a hell of a lot of blood flying all over and a few gun shots to the head and and chests of Starkweathers victims as well as a few brutal stabbings. There is not one bit of CGI used at all in the film.
Overall I enjoyed this bio pic. of a real life serial killer of the late 1950’s, I think plenty of fans will find it to be a decent flick. It’s fast paced an to the point and does not drag on like some of the past Serial killer films have. Check it out.
– Horror Bob
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