Content warning: This article discusses topics that may be triggering to some readers, including stalking, grooming, and sexual assault.
"Baby Reindeer" is the latest Netflix phenomenon, the must-see limited series that people can't stop talking about. Starring Scottish comedian Richard Gadd and based on his award-winning play of the same name, "Baby Reindeer" is a dramatized look at real events Gadd endured when he was stalked by a woman he refers to as "Martha," and how his prior, unresolved history with sexual assault directly influenced how he responded to the situation. Given that Gadd is essentially reliving his trauma, "Baby Reindeer" differs from the majority of "based on true events" adaptations in that the person telling the story was actually there. There's no mystery to solve because the show's survivor is the one shaping the narrative.
But despite Gadd's tireless attempts to keep the identities of his abuser, his stalker,...
"Baby Reindeer" is the latest Netflix phenomenon, the must-see limited series that people can't stop talking about. Starring Scottish comedian Richard Gadd and based on his award-winning play of the same name, "Baby Reindeer" is a dramatized look at real events Gadd endured when he was stalked by a woman he refers to as "Martha," and how his prior, unresolved history with sexual assault directly influenced how he responded to the situation. Given that Gadd is essentially reliving his trauma, "Baby Reindeer" differs from the majority of "based on true events" adaptations in that the person telling the story was actually there. There's no mystery to solve because the show's survivor is the one shaping the narrative.
But despite Gadd's tireless attempts to keep the identities of his abuser, his stalker,...
- 4/24/2024
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
A new horror and fantasy anthology series Tales for Friday Night (Cuentos para viernes por la noche) is coming to Amazon Prime in all LatAm territories on July 30th. Written and directed by Argentine filmmaker Pablo Vergara, his new series pivots on two central characters, Mariela y Juan, who will go through a relationship cycle throughout all the episodes. The rest of the cast will all be the same actors but acting out different characters as each episode dictates, perhaps bringing along a trait or two from a previous episode's character. "Tales for Friday Night" is a collection of short stories that carefully combine intrigue, fantasy and terror. In an atmosphere that pays tribute to classics such as "Tales from the Crypt" or...
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- 7/22/2021
- Screen Anarchy
The first thing I thought when I heard the title of the latest true crime documentary to arrive on Netflix, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel was “please be the Elisa Lam case! Please be the Elisa Lam case!”. The second thing I thought was “My God, you utter monster, that was a young woman’s life”.
It’s a conflict that most true crime fans juggle with constantly. We are fascinated by these cases but we know the importance of questioning our motives, of keeping the victims as people front and centre and of trying to remember that this is real life and not just something here for our entertainment.
Joe Berlinger’s excellent documentary does a fine job of reinforcing this message, presenting Lam’s disappearance and the fallout surrounding it in the most down to earth and least sensationalist way possible. Talking heads include the...
It’s a conflict that most true crime fans juggle with constantly. We are fascinated by these cases but we know the importance of questioning our motives, of keeping the victims as people front and centre and of trying to remember that this is real life and not just something here for our entertainment.
Joe Berlinger’s excellent documentary does a fine job of reinforcing this message, presenting Lam’s disappearance and the fallout surrounding it in the most down to earth and least sensationalist way possible. Talking heads include the...
- 2/11/2021
- by Rosie Fletcher
- Den of Geek
Spoiler Alert: Do not read if you have not yet watched “Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel,” streaming now on Netflix.
From his “Paradise Lost” trilogy that began in 1996 to his 2009 documentary “Crude” that looked at the pollution of the Amazon, documentarian Joe Berlinger has spent a lot of time in his career and his personal philanthropy exposing false narratives and telling stories of wrongful convictions. But, he has also been interested in exploring how geography can impact criminal behaviors, such as in “Paradise Lost,” 2014’s “Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger” and 2019’s Netflix docuseries “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.” Now, he has teamed back up with the streamer for “Crime Scene,” a true crime docuseries that allows him to dig deeper into these elements than ever before.
The first season of “Crime Scene” is subtitled “The Vanishing at the Cecil...
From his “Paradise Lost” trilogy that began in 1996 to his 2009 documentary “Crude” that looked at the pollution of the Amazon, documentarian Joe Berlinger has spent a lot of time in his career and his personal philanthropy exposing false narratives and telling stories of wrongful convictions. But, he has also been interested in exploring how geography can impact criminal behaviors, such as in “Paradise Lost,” 2014’s “Whitey: United States of America v. James J. Bulger” and 2019’s Netflix docuseries “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.” Now, he has teamed back up with the streamer for “Crime Scene,” a true crime docuseries that allows him to dig deeper into these elements than ever before.
The first season of “Crime Scene” is subtitled “The Vanishing at the Cecil...
- 2/10/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
The black metal musician Morbid unexpectedly found himself in the middle of the tragic and bizarre Elisa Lam case when people started lurking around his YouTube channel. Web sleuths found a video of Morbid, whose real name is Pablo Vergara, at the Cecil Hotel a year before Elisa Lam's death. In Netflix's Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, we hear from Vergara in episodes three and four as he unpacks how the unofficial internet true-crime investigation caught him off guard and put him through a personal whirlwind. So how did Vergara fit into the story? Here's how the case unfolded for him.
Morbid's channel, now defunct, displayed an obsession with violence and death. Crime Scene sifts through some of his past footage that seemed to have connections with Lam. Vergara had a video where he performed with pictures of Ted Bundy and the Black Dahlia in the background.
Morbid's channel, now defunct, displayed an obsession with violence and death. Crime Scene sifts through some of his past footage that seemed to have connections with Lam. Vergara had a video where he performed with pictures of Ted Bundy and the Black Dahlia in the background.
- 2/10/2021
- by Stacey Nguyen
- Popsugar.com
★★★★☆The fourth feature from director Alejandro Fernández Almendras, To Kill a Man (2014) opens with a wide shot of a dense forest, the trees cut by light forcing its way through the canopy. We see a man in the right of the frame walking slowly yet purposefully through the foliage and then disappear from view as Pablo Vergara's complementary score reaches its crescendo. This startlingly beautiful yet ominous scene sets the tone of To Kill a Man perfectly, as what unravels over the next 83 minutes is a thriller of graceful simplicity. Diabetic Jorge (Daniel Candia), works at the Santa Julia Centre for Forest Research, and lives with his wife Marta (Alejandra Yanez) and teenage son and daughter.
- 6/26/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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