The Hillside Strangler
“They lived to watch you die.”
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Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. He moves to California to live with his cousin Angelo and dates a string of women, becoming increasingly preoccupied with sex. Eventually the cousins decide to start an escort agency. After violently killing a prostitute they thought had betrayed them, Kenneth and Angelo begin committing a series of crimes that become a media sensation.
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This film plunges into the dark underbelly of 1970s California, offering a raw, unflinching look at escalating violence and exploitation. It's a grim, unsettling descent into depravity, driven by a palpable sense of dread and desperation.
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