The Hillside Strangler: Devil In Disguise, a four-part docuseries premiering August 2 on Peacock, offers a new, in-depth peek inside the minds of notorious serial killing cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono who allegedly impersonated off-duty police officers to lure unsuspecting victims to their deaths before leaving their bodies to be found on the hillsides of East Los Angeles during the 1970s. In 1979, in Bellingham, Washington, at the time of his arrest for the murders of two local women, Bianchi was not a suspect in the hillside killings. However, due to similarities in both the Washington and California murders, not to mention Bianchi recent departure from Los Angles, investigators began to consider his connection to the cases. When questioned, Bianchi flip flopped back and forth, alternately denying and confessing to multiple killings in the LA and Washington areas. During his confessions, Bianchi purported to have a split personality and claimed some...
- 7/21/2022
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
Horror in the hills of Los Angeles. E! News has the chilling first look at Peacock's new true crime special, The Hillside Strangler: Devil in Disguise. The four-part docu-series—which premieres Aug. 2—will re-examine the terrifying story of notorious serial killing cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr. who murdered nearly a dozen L.A. area women in the 1970s. "In Los Angeles, somebody or a team has been murdering girls—lots of them," a decades-old news report declares in the trailer. Soon, tension swept through Los Angeles. "Everybody was really on edge and worried," Dr. Lois Lee, founder of the anti-sex trafficking charity Children of the...
- 7/20/2022
- E! Online
When Gil Carrillo joined the homicide division at the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department in the early Eighties, his future partner Frank Salerno was already something of a celebrity. He had recently collared the so-called Hillside Strangler, a.k.a. cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono Jr., a serial killer duo who terrorized the L.A. area in the late Seventies, raping, torturing, and killing 10 women.
“When I met Frank; he was going through the trial for the Hillside Strangler,” Carrillo tells Rolling Stone. “I asked him about it and he said,...
“When I met Frank; he was going through the trial for the Hillside Strangler,” Carrillo tells Rolling Stone. “I asked him about it and he said,...
- 2/10/2021
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
This article contains spoilers for The Little Things and Seven.
Critics have not been kind to The Little Things, the new Warner Bros./HBO Max psychological thriller starring Denzel Washington and Rami Malek as two Los Angeles cops obsessed with catching a vicious serial killer. Although the film is apparently doing very decent business–especially on the streaming end–it sits at a mediocre 48 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with many comparing it to the 1995 classic Seven. In that juxtaposition, The Little Things is coming up short.
On the surface, there are a number of similarities between writer-director John Lee Hancock’s new police melodrama and David Fincher’s masterpiece from 25 years ago. Yet despite parallels in the two films’ plot structure, character relationships, settings, and themes, there are key differences that set them apart upon a closer look. These distinctions may also provide The Little Things with a more level critical playing field.
Critics have not been kind to The Little Things, the new Warner Bros./HBO Max psychological thriller starring Denzel Washington and Rami Malek as two Los Angeles cops obsessed with catching a vicious serial killer. Although the film is apparently doing very decent business–especially on the streaming end–it sits at a mediocre 48 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, with many comparing it to the 1995 classic Seven. In that juxtaposition, The Little Things is coming up short.
On the surface, there are a number of similarities between writer-director John Lee Hancock’s new police melodrama and David Fincher’s masterpiece from 25 years ago. Yet despite parallels in the two films’ plot structure, character relationships, settings, and themes, there are key differences that set them apart upon a closer look. These distinctions may also provide The Little Things with a more level critical playing field.
- 2/3/2021
- by Don Kaye
- Den of Geek
Netflix’s chilling true-crime documentary series “Night Stalker” debuted Jan. 13, and tells the story of the law-enforcement officers who caught and apprehended Richard Ramirez, a serial killer and rapist who was active in California during the 1980s.
Los Angeles Sheriff’s detectives Frank Salerno and Gil Carrillo were the two agents responsible for cracking the case and bringing Ramirez to justice. Salerno was a coordinator of the task force created to find and arrest Ramirez. Salerno is now retired, but he served on the Sheriff’s Department force for over three decades.
Ramirez was eventually caught and brought to justice in August 1985, and convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. He was sentenced to death in the gas chamber, after what was one of the most expensive trials in California history (second to the O.J. Simpson murder case which took place later in 1994). Ramirez later...
Los Angeles Sheriff’s detectives Frank Salerno and Gil Carrillo were the two agents responsible for cracking the case and bringing Ramirez to justice. Salerno was a coordinator of the task force created to find and arrest Ramirez. Salerno is now retired, but he served on the Sheriff’s Department force for over three decades.
Ramirez was eventually caught and brought to justice in August 1985, and convicted of 13 counts of murder, five attempted murders, 11 sexual assaults and 14 burglaries. He was sentenced to death in the gas chamber, after what was one of the most expensive trials in California history (second to the O.J. Simpson murder case which took place later in 1994). Ramirez later...
- 1/15/2021
- by Samson Amore and Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
The infamous Hillside Strangler case from the late 1970s has inspired another independent film, with C. Thomas Howell and Nicholas Turturro taking on the roles of cousins/mass murderers Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, respectively, for helmer Chuck Parello. Another Hillside Strangler project recently wrapped production with Chris Fisher at the helm and Clifton Collins Jr. and Tomas Arana in the title roles starring alongside Brittany Daniel, Lake Bell, Tom Wright and Michael Haggerty. That project -- being produced by Imperial Fish Co. and Silver Nitrate -- is told from the point of view of a liberal psychiatrist (Daniel) who is brought in by the district attorney (Bell) to determine whether Bianchi is mentally capable of being interrogated.
- 8/22/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Clifton Collins Jr. is set to take one of the title roles in the indie thriller The Hillside Strangler for director Chris Fisher. Shooting started earlier this week in Los Angeles. Strangler is loosely based on the events surrounding serial killers Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi (Collins), two cousins who were pimps and hustlers and who murdered 10 women in Los Angeles during a four-month period from 1977-78. The story is told from the point of view of a liberal psychiatrist (Brittany Daniel) who is brought in by the district attorney (Lake Bell) to determine whether Bianchi, a prime suspect who refuses to speak to police, is mentally capable of being interrogated. During the process, the psychiatrist uncovers more than she was looking for. Tom Wright and Michael Haggerty round out the cast, with other roles to be announced shortly, including the role of Buono. Fisher is producing through his Imperial Fish Co. from his own script along with Ash Shaw through his Silver Nitrate. Collins is repped by CAA, Steven Fenton at CMC and attorney David Krintzman. He most recently starred on the big screen in Roger Avary's The Rules of Attraction for Lions Gate Films. He next stars in the HBO film Undefeated opposite John Leguizamo, followed by Renny Harlin's Mindhunters for Dimension Films and Intermedia.
- 7/11/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
IMDb.com, Inc. takes no responsibility for the content or accuracy of the above news articles, Tweets, or blog posts. This content is published for the entertainment of our users only. The news articles, Tweets, and blog posts do not represent IMDb's opinions nor can we guarantee that the reporting therein is completely factual. Please visit the source responsible for the item in question to report any concerns you may have regarding content or accuracy.