H. H. Holmes: Original Evil

Just... save yourself the hour plus and go read Devil in White City or watch a number of other documentaries on HH Holmes.

It's hard to believe that this documentary is made in 2018. It could easily have fooled me as having been made 30 years ago. I actually would not have been suprised if this was made at home with a personal computer and a budget of 0£. It is hard to concentrate because of the horrible soundtrack, which is a 2 minute cheap sequence of misplaced music played on a loop. It is actually as annoying as the dreadfully unprofessional, dull and irritating narrating that constantly left me wanting to hit the fast forward button. Pictures and scenes are also re-used throughout the 70 minutes long nightmare to such an extent that before i had reached 1/4 into it, i started thinking that this documentary should have lasted for 20 minutes due to lack of material and dragged out scenes. This could have been a really interesting story, that is in the hands of people who actually belong in the business of making documentaries. For the love of god, stear away from this, and spare yourself from thinking about how you can get the last 70 minutes of your life back.

You can basically follow the entire "documentary" while reading from Wikipedia. Seriously, it almost goes along with it word for word. Total cop out. Obviously no new information. Save some time, just read the website.

I am familiar with HH Holmes story and even I had a hard time following the story in this documentary. Horrible narration and completely unrelated stock video made it hard to follow. Amateur doesn't even begin to describe it.

I don't know whose bright idea it was to throw random pictures and video with some audio and consider that a film, but seriously you need to stop. It was absolutely awful. Hardly any useful information was given. Just random babbling over and over. No real insight into anything.