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Manhunt: Search for the Night Stalker
Hunt for the Night Stalker
USA 1989
produced by Joel Fields, Leonard Hill (executive) for Leonard Hill Films
directed by Bruce Seth Green
starring Richard Jordan, A.Martinez, Julie Carmen, Alan Feinstein, Lisa Eilbacher, Gregory Norman Cruz, Gerry Bamman, Jenny Sullivan, Marisol R.Reyes, Roger Hampton, Jack Rader, Oh Soon-Tek, Scott Lincoln, Jake Dengel, Angela Paton, Dawn Arnemann
written by Joseph Gunn, music by Sylvester Levay
review by Dale Pierce
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A made-for-TV movie which is better than your usual films based on real life
accounts, as this one follows the facts with at least some degree of accuracy.
Based on the search for the Night Stalker, the serial killer holding Los
Angeles in terror in the summer of 1985, the movie deals with the efforts of
two cops to bring him to justice. Not a bad docudrama for the most part,
though there is relatively little gore or graphic violence.
The most chilling part comes with the capture of The Night Stalker
(a.k.a. Richard Ramirez, chillingly played by Gregory Norman Cruz): While in a questioning room, he looks
at his surroundings and marvels, almost happily about his predicament. Rather
than worry about a possible trip to the gas chamber, he smirks and comments
about how those baffled by the lack of logic behind his crimes "don't know
Satan." He then asks if this was the same room where The Hillside
Stranglers were questioned and when told in the affirmative, he basques in
triumph. "I was bigger than they were," he crows, as if he had
just won the world heavyweight wrestling title on cable TV.
There have been other trackdown type films that received more press or may
have been better - beauty being in the eye of the beholder - such as say
Summer of Sam or The Boston Strangler.
Not as bad as a whole rash
of others though, especially those done on Bundy and Dahmer. At least
screenwriters, actors and directors made no attempt glorify this son of a
bitch, but show him onscreen as a whacked out and egotistical bastard. You
rejoice seeing the bastard take the fall.
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review © by Dale Pierce
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