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O Estrangulador

Título original: The Hillside Strangler
  • 2004
  • R
  • 1 h 38 min
AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
5,2/10
2,1 mil
SUA AVALIAÇÃO
O Estrangulador (2004)
True CrimeCrimeDramaThriller

Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaKenneth is obsessed with the police, he moves to LA with his cousin, Angelo convinces him to start a prostitution business. Frustrated decide on revenge, feeling a great pleasure with her de... Ler tudoKenneth is obsessed with the police, he moves to LA with his cousin, Angelo convinces him to start a prostitution business. Frustrated decide on revenge, feeling a great pleasure with her death. The two cousins become addicted to death.Kenneth is obsessed with the police, he moves to LA with his cousin, Angelo convinces him to start a prostitution business. Frustrated decide on revenge, feeling a great pleasure with her death. The two cousins become addicted to death.

  • Direção
    • Chuck Parello
  • Roteiristas
    • Stephen Johnston
    • Chuck Parello
  • Artistas
    • C. Thomas Howell
    • Nicholas Turturro
    • Allison Lange
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  • AVALIAÇÃO DA IMDb
    5,2/10
    2,1 mil
    SUA AVALIAÇÃO
    • Direção
      • Chuck Parello
    • Roteiristas
      • Stephen Johnston
      • Chuck Parello
    • Artistas
      • C. Thomas Howell
      • Nicholas Turturro
      • Allison Lange
    • 36Avaliações de usuários
    • 36Avaliações da crítica
    • 19Metascore
  • Veja as informações de produção no IMDbPro
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    C. Thomas Howell
    C. Thomas Howell
    • Kenneth A. Bianchi
    Nicholas Turturro
    Nicholas Turturro
    • Angelo Buono
    Allison Lange
    Allison Lange
    • Claire Shelton
    Marisol Padilla Sánchez
    Marisol Padilla Sánchez
    • Christina Chavez
    Jennifer Tisdale
    Jennifer Tisdale
    • Erin
    • (as Jennifer Kelly Tisdale)
    Kent King
    Kent King
    • Gabrielle
    • (as Kent Masters-King)
    Aimee Brooks
    Aimee Brooks
    • Felicia Waller
    Natasha Melnick
    Natasha Melnick
    • Karyn
    Damon Whitaker
    Damon Whitaker
    • Ronnie
    Brandin Rackley
    • Janice Cooley
    Jessica Allegra
    • April
    Roz Witt
    Roz Witt
    • Frances Bianchi
    Lin Shaye
    Lin Shaye
    • Jenny Buono
    Samantha Tabak
    • Heather Brewer
    • (as Tricia Dickson)
    Kylie Rachel
    • Peaches
    • (as Kylie Rachelle)
    Charles Andre Allen
    • Herb
    Molly Brenner
    Molly Brenner
    • Matilda Ploskonka
    Zarah Little
    • Carrie Ploskonka
    • Direção
      • Chuck Parello
    • Roteiristas
      • Stephen Johnston
      • Chuck Parello
    • Elenco e equipe completos
    • Produção, bilheteria e muito mais no IMDbPro

    Avaliações de usuários36

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    8Jakealope

    Good Docudrama and Exploitation Flick

    This movie is not for the faint of heart. These two men were sadistic, woman hating thugs but it transcends the genre by presenting them as human and bad, not as stereotypical Hollywood killing machines or some victim of uncontrollable compulsions. It was certainly better than earlier flicks that only hinted at their lifestyle. C.T. Howell's Ken Bianchi is a little overdone but he does a good job as portraying him as a liar, geek, sadist, weakling and a con man with a smidgen of humanity. Nick Turturro stole the show with his over-the-top Angelo Buono who was a real goon in the Soprano style of "lovable" Italian sadists. The movie takes a slap at Italian macho man culture but in the case of these two goons, it isn't offensive or unwarranted. Even before they slapped their first women, you got to really dislike them as Nick took his weaker cousin on a journey through the tawdry sexual night life of LA. The way they duped the small town girls with their phony modeling agency spiel then forced them to be whores was a good warm up to their later murder spree. Good late night flick, but definitely not for your date or the sensitive type!
    9Thorsten_B

    Eerie in its Realness

    "Hillside Strangler" tries to given a realistic portray of two cousins who became one of the most notorious mass murder duo ever. First up, the actors were quite good - in C. Thomas Howells' case, it's hard to recognize him when keeping his teenage roles from the 80s in mind. But as far as acting goes, he obviously improved. Lots of good looking girls share the scenes, but when the viewer is shown were it all leads to (as if we didn't already suggest from the title), the more disturbing the story becomes. Not only do Kenneth and Angelo rape, torture and kill these girls on the screen - they did it in reality. What we see is, of course, an "alternate version" to the real world, but still one that sticks to the actual events quite closely. Even though many people may feel uneasy when watching both the explicit sexual scenes and the even more graphic murder moments, it seems that some gruesome details have even been left out. Other parts, such as a female writer who fell in love with Kenneth while he already in prison and who tried to commit another murder in order to install arguments for him being innocent, have been changed, though not entirely made up - that woman really existed (and seemingly, still does exist in some jail). In total, the movie gives a very realistic insight in the late 70s Californian suburban atmosphere and it's darker sides, with the Hillside Stranglers minds being the pinnacle of darkness.
    6normbatesjr-1

    Lacking in Substance

    Well, not bad but by no means not great. What is missing from this telling of The Hillside Strangler story is what is usually important to making a good serial killer movie: "police involvement". The fact that what really stumped the LAPD for so long is that they didn't know they were looking for two people was key in the real-life story and not even mentioned here. Also the film makers failed to really show (only in some quick snippets) just how sick and twisted these two were and some of the really gruesome things they did to their victims. I'm not saying it needed to be shown but it should have been at least mentioned. But there again that would call for police involvement. That being said I would mention that C. Thomas Howell turns in a pretty good performance here. With his gaunt appearance, silly thin mustache and pathetic shleprock mannerisms he gives his character, he almost channels the spirit of an icky Willem Dafoe performance. Almost. I'll be kind and give this a C-.
    boyinflares

    Disturbing and hard to watch

    This film turned out to be much more than I thought that it was going to be, most notably, it was extremely disturbing and at times I found myself not able to watch - particularly the rapes and deaths of the poor women. The Hillside Strangler(s) played their roles well, both utterly convincing and rather frightening. Allison Lange was fantastic as the long-suffering Claire. I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone who is faint-hearted. It was a good film, but so disturbing. There was plenty of nudity, offensive language, drug use and violence splashed throughout the movie, but the treatment of the women was so shocking. For that reason, I cannot give this film a rating.
    5Buddy-51

    a mixed bag

    Is there anything more inscrutable and unfathomable than the mind of a serial killer? Probably not, yet, year after year, undeterred filmmakers attempt to come to grips with this elusive subject matter, usually with unsatisfactory results.

    Generally, serial killer stories are placed in the context of a police procedural, in which a crack homicide investigator searches for clues in the hopes of finding the culprit before he can claim his next victim. But, once in awhile, filmmakers will take a more serious approach to the topic, focusing more on the killer himself, his methods and his madness, as a means of trying to "open up" the psyche of such a person in the hopes of finding answers. "The Hillside Strangler" is in the second category.

    The so-called "Hillside Strangler" actually turned out to be TWO serial killers who, working in tandem, terrorized Los Angeles in the early 1970's. Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono were "cousins" who acted out their hatred of women by kidnapping, raping and slaughtering an assortment of innocent victims they picked out at random (they started with streetwalkers, then branched out to women in general). Bianchi was a loser "nobody" who found murdering helpless young women and terrorizing a whole city (albeit in anonymity) the only way in which he could achieve the status of a "somebody." Buono was a smalltime auto repairman who, through the murders, finally got the opportunity to act out his sadistic sexual fantasies on an epic scale. In fact, as portrayed in the movie, both men use the killings as the ultimate orgasm, confusing the destruction of the helpless with sexual fulfillment.

    The problem with a movie like "The Hillside Strangler" is that, no matter how serious it is in its intention and approach, the film is bound to feel exploitative in its darkest moments. Although this is definitely no sensationalistic rabblerousing gore-fest like "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," after we've watched a half dozen or so innocent terrified young girls being essentially tortured to death, we still wind up asking ourselves what the purpose of the movie really is. Director Chuck Parello adopts a cool, detached, documentary-style tone throughout, but it still isn't enough to smooth us past the emotionally disturbing rough patches.

    That being said, there are a few quality elements in "The Hillside Strangler" provided one has a high tolerance for depictions of disturbing violence. The movie effectively shows just how easily two utterly amoral individuals can pass for rational and normal in the eyes of the outside world. Bianchi is particularly adept at leading a double life, going so far as pulling the wool over the eyes of his very own wife who has no clue about her husband's deadly nocturnal activities. C. Thomas Howell and Nicholas Turturro give complex, chilling performances as Bianchi and Buono, keeping us on the knife-edge of suspense through much of the movie. The film also does a good job capturing the look of the '70's, right on down to the polyester clothes, perms and ubiquitous moustaches that helped to define the era. The poorly lit, slightly grainy photography also gives the film the look of one of those low budget exploitation pictures of thirty years ago. (There is at least one inadvertent anachronism in the film: the skyline we see in some of the establishing shots is of Los Angeles today, not three decades ago).

    The screenplay by Parello and Stephen Johnston pays little heed to the detection aspects of the story, so much so that we never find out what it is that made the police suspicious of Bianchi in the first place. We see him being apprehended but have no idea what the clues were that led to his capture. This is a frustration oversight on the part of the filmmakers.

    "The Hillside Strangler" deserves credit for at least trying to bring a more controlled, less sensationalistic approach to a topic that often gets thrown onto the trash heap of two-bit police dramas and slasher horror films. But, for all its good intentions, the film doesn't wind up revealing much about the psychotic mindset that we didn't already know before. Thus, the rewards are not sufficient compensation for the unpleasantness of sitting through so much of the movie.

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      Nicholas Turturro improvised a fair share of his dialogue.
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      References Garganta Profunda (1972)

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    Detalhes

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 12 de novembro de 2004 (Reino Unido)
    • País de origem
      • Estados Unidos da América
    • Idioma
      • Inglês
    • Também conhecido como
      • The Hillside Strangler
    • Locações de filme
      • Hollywood, Los Angeles, Califórnia, EUA(main location)
    • Empresas de produção
      • Tartan Films
      • Yo Joey Productions
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    • Orçamento
      • US$ 1.400.000 (estimativa)
    • Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 4.143
    • Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
      • US$ 306
      • 26 de set. de 2004
    • Faturamento bruto mundial
      • US$ 4.143
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    • Tempo de duração
      1 hora 38 minutos
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      • Color
    • Mixagem de som
      • Dolby
    • Proporção
      • 1.85 : 1

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