Occult Crimes

I can't stand watching dubbed interviews and that's the whole thing!

A badly researched series that focuses on blowing up stereotypes of subcultures and using religious fanaticism rather than psychological evaluation to emphasise the wrongness of the criminals involved.

There are many glaring mistakes and poor production in just the first episode alone. The use of a computer voice doesn't inspire any credibility. The second issue is repeated inability to correctly identify The Church of Jesus Chris of Latter Day Saints calling it The Church of Latter Day Saints, The Church of Mormon. If the maker of this series makes these glaring mistakes it brings into question any credibility.

Pro Tip: Goth/DnD do not equal occult. Sure sometimes there's some overlap...but 4 goth kids in a car jacking gone wrong is not an occult crime. This show covers money laundering, serial killers, sexual deviants, and crimes of passion, but it doesn't really have a lot of occult in it, over all. Some of the episodes try so hard to make the occult connection that it's almost laughable. Oh, they were playing an online role playing game as they talked about killing someone...that makes this an occult motivated crime. No. it doesn't. I honestly don't know why I kept watching this show, it was just...bad.

This is just your average crime documentary TV show. It doesn't go much into details about the "occult" and several of the crimes have extremely loose connections to occult material/beliefs. That's not exactly a huge problem but it doesn't make the show shine.

What really pulls the narrations down, however, is the narrator and voice-overs. They continually mispronounce words such as Samhain, Nosferatu, macabre, and vampirism - words which at least one person on the production staff should have known or taken the 10 seconds involved to research. It really shows that those involved in the show didn't have a remarkable interest in its content, they were simply interested in producing a mediocre crime show with a gimmicky twist.

I do give them credit for looking at cases outside of the English speaking world and including a lot of non-English speakers in their interviews (which are translated into voice-overs which makes it almost impossible to hear the original speaker, so even though I speak some French I couldn't attest to how accurate the translations in those cases were). If not for this show, I doubt I would have ever heard of those cases.