You can do worse than watch "Without Warning !", a fine police procedural about the hunt for an intelligent serial killer who knows that the authorities are looking for him.
Time has not been kind to all of the procedural aspects ; nowadays, no one would whistle with admiration at the idea of a little piece of fabric being examined under a microscope and yielding useful forensic results. As in many other police procedurals, there is also an element of dryness creeping in.
However, the movie boasts an interesting villain, in the shape of a highly dangerous man who looks like an all-American, law-abiding citizen. He's as mad as a World Mad Hatter Conference but quite capable of hiding, planning, dissembling, which leads to a tense cat-and-mouse game with the police. The killer's pursuit of his latest intended victim is suspenseful and provides for a superb finale. (Watch out for the motif of the small neighbour girl who keeps on asking him to repair her doll.)
Time has not been kind to all of the procedural aspects ; nowadays, no one would whistle with admiration at the idea of a little piece of fabric being examined under a microscope and yielding useful forensic results. As in many other police procedurals, there is also an element of dryness creeping in.
However, the movie boasts an interesting villain, in the shape of a highly dangerous man who looks like an all-American, law-abiding citizen. He's as mad as a World Mad Hatter Conference but quite capable of hiding, planning, dissembling, which leads to a tense cat-and-mouse game with the police. The killer's pursuit of his latest intended victim is suspenseful and provides for a superb finale. (Watch out for the motif of the small neighbour girl who keeps on asking him to repair her doll.)