Furia omicida

Being a horror buff I also follow the life of mass murderers and serial killers. Let this flick being based on a true event about brothers killing a few people on a farm.

Sadly it just didn't work out as I thought it should have. It was boring as hell. It was slow and the killings were laughable. Look how the old men on a bed was shot and even later supposed to be dead he's still breathing. And the girl being raped, what the hell was that. So laughable how she was screaming even when the rape stopped. It should get you by the throat because when the two brothers escape from prison and go back home to pick up their guns their youngest brother Billy ,only 15, agrees to go with them not knowing they are on a killing spree.

It all looked so tame and dull but the real events weren't. Not what I thought it would deliver...

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5

Like I had expected, this turned out to be a fairly ordinary film. However, some good performances and some tense scenes did help to make this a decent time-killer. Really, this was little more than a barrage of needless violence, but for what it was, it wasn't too bad. That having been said, I have a feeling that this film will quickly fade from my memory, since a routine plot makes the movie seem slow during the times that innocent people aren't being attacked.

I have looked for this movie many times. I recall seeing it 20 plus years ago and that image stayed in my mind. The brutality of the way they killed this family. I had sleepless nights and now I want too view it again. This poor country southern family were killed in cold blood. It had an impact on me. I can't think of any movie that effected me like murder one. It's based on a true story, it was on the local news. This was real! I know I was a different person then. So I'm looking forward to seeing it again........ It's like something you have looked for years and finally find it. It was compelling and sickening at the same time. However it was true. After I see it I Wanna find out what happened to those that killed them. It seems like they lived in a small country house or........ A trailer. Yes a trailer I think. Monsters is what they are or were.

I grew up 20 miles from where those murders were committed. I am anti-death penalty. But if anyone ever deserved to be executed, it was Carl Isaacs. He and his friends murdered 5 unsuspecting men and 1 pregnant woman who was also raped her and left her to die in an ant bed. All were members of the Alday family of Seminole Co., GA.

Even into the late 1980's (the murders took place in 1973), he said that the only way the Aldays "stood out" was "being killed by me." His frequent use of descriptions like "rednecks" and "backwoods" to describe the innocent and unsuspecting people that he and his friends murdered as well as their survivors, only added to salt to the deep wounds of an entire community. For 30 years, through appeals, not on grounds of innocence but on technicalities, a town of 2,800 people was forced to continue to pay for administrative costs during the many court procedures introduced on behalf of an admitted and unrepentant murderer. Meanwhile, because the men of the family were all executed by Isaacs and his gang, the surviving widows and children saw their lives fall into bankruptcy because they couldn't farm their land alone. For them, the pain of those events from that night lasted not just that one night, but for 30 years.

This movie's depiction of local people played right into Carl's description. Instead of showing good, decent, honest, hard-working, community-building people, they show a goober type of fellow waving stupidly from a tractor as a Isaacs and his gang drove by.

The movie doesn't spend much time on the Aldays, the only innocent people in this movie. Instead, it almost seems to invite sympathy for people who either murdered and raped or served as accomplices to all crimes committed on that fateful night.

A mediocre portrayal (script, acting, etc.) of the Alday murders in Georgia.

Here is a timeline of the true story:

Alday family murders

May 5, 1973 Carl Issacs, Wayne Coleman and George Dungee escape from Maryland State Prison. They pick up Billy Issacs, Carl's 15 year-old brother

May 10, 1973 Richard Miller is abducted in McConnellsburg, PA. He is murdered in Allegheny County, MD.

May 14, 1973 Carl Issacs, Billy Issacs, and Wayne Coleman enter the Alday home in Seminole County (Donalsonville), Georgia looking for money and guns. The Maryland work camp escapees kill Jerry Alday, his father Ned, two brothers and an uncle. Jerry's wife Mary, who had witnessed some of the killing, was forced into a car and raped repeatedly before she was killed.

May 15, 1973 The body of Mary Alday is discovered.

May 17, 1973 On the day that the Alday family is buried, West Virginia police capture George Dungee, first of the Issacs gang to fall into custody.

May 18, 1973 West Virginia police capture Carl Issacs, Billy Issacs and Wayne Coleman

December 31, 1973 Jury selection begins in Seminole County for Carl Issacs. The racially mixed jury has six women.

January 2, 1974 Carl Issacs goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death.

January 6, 1974 George Dungee goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death.

January 14, 1974 Wayne Coleman goes on trial for the Alday family murders. He will be convicted and sentenced to death.

July 28, 1980 Carl Issacs plans to escape, along with four other inmates. He is moved to a new "Death Row," foiling his attempt, but 4 other men succeed. Three are recaptured 4 days later in North Carolina, the fourth dead at the hands of his fellow escapees

December 9, 1985 3 judge panel finds that pretrial publicity about the Alday family murders made a fair trial virtually impossible in Seminole County

June 3, 1986 Supreme Court orders a new trial in the Alday family murders

September 9, 1988 Murder One, a movie based on the Alday family murders starring Henry Thomas and James Wilder, shot almost entirely in Toronto, Canada, opens to mixed reviews

June 28, 1990 U.S. Supreme Court rejects Carl Issac's appeal of second death sentence

February 18, 1993 Billy Issacs released from Georgia prison

April 21, 2003 U.S. Supreme Court upholds Carl Issac's death sentence

May 6, 2003 The man who orchestrated the Alday Family murders, Carl Isaacs, is put to death by lethal injection. At the time he had been on death row longer than any other person.