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Occult Crimes

  • TV Series
  • 2015–2019
  • 45m
IMDb RATING
5.8/10
153
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Occult Crimes (2015)
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"This investigative series examines cases of murder motivated by a lethal mix of mental illness, role-playing rituals and bizarre religious beliefs."This investigative series examines cases of murder motivated by a lethal mix of mental illness, role-playing rituals and bizarre religious beliefs."This investigative series examines cases of murder motivated by a lethal mix of mental illness, role-playing rituals and bizarre religious beliefs.

  • Stars
    • Nathalie Breuer
    • Kim Handysides
    • Gilles Chamberland
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    5.8/10
    153
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    • Stars
      • Nathalie Breuer
      • Kim Handysides
      • Gilles Chamberland
    • 9User reviews
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    Nathalie Breuer
    Nathalie Breuer
    • Narrator…
    • 2015–2019
    Kim Handysides
    • Self - Narrator
    • 2015
    Gilles Chamberland
    Gilles Chamberland
    • Self - Psychiatrist…
    • 2015–2019
    Christian Page
    Christian Page
    • Self - Author and Journalist…
    • 2015
    Shirley Tatum
    • Self
    • 2019
    Jacques Sirgent
    • Self - Historian
    • 2015
    Gerard Lopez
    • Self - Psychiatrist
    • 2015
    Cliff Linedecker
    • Self - Author, Hell Ranch…
    • 2015
    Carol Ivy
    • Self
    • 2019
    Katherine Ramsland
    Katherine Ramsland
    • Self - Professor of Forensic Psychology
    • 2015
    Alexandra Doucet
    Alexandra Doucet
    • Robin Murphy…
    • 2015–2019
    William Ramsey
    • Self - Author, Abomination
    • 2015
    Yvan Ross
    Yvan Ross
    • Carl Drew
    • 2019
    George Gavito
    George Gavito
    • Self - Former Lieutenant, Cameron County Sheriff's Department
    • 2015
    Michele Tollis
    • Self - Father of Fabio Tollis
    • 2015
    Jacques St-Pierre
    Jacques St-Pierre
    • Self - Former Investigator
    • 2015
    John Huffine
    • Self - Retired Detective Captain, Greene County Sheriff's Office
    • 2015
    Jonathan Paul
    • Self - Author, When Kids Kill
    • 2015
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    1deankaysjr

    Dubbed commentary

    I can't stand watching dubbed interviews and that's the whole thing!
    1belladonnalily-25123

    Disappointing and insulting.

    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.
    6greg-goremykin

    I don't thing a lot of reviews here are being fair

    I think a lot of reviewers are being hung up on pronunciations and such as an overall reflection on the production, and that is very close-minded. Maybe living in Canada has given me enough exposure that those are just people speaking English with a heavy French accent, and is no way a reflection on their intelligence or expertise. If you want to watch a show that involves international crimes of this nature you need to temper your expectations over minutiae like that as it's unlikely an American production team would ever be outward looking enough to report of the crimes this series does.

    I'd say the production values were par for the course or a bit worse, and they pulled off the premise of showing crimes with some sort of occult angle, and this is where people are being unnecessarily offended almost it seems, as the series' use of the term occult reflects where the average person off the street would hear the word and the first thing that would pop into their thought is "occult". The series didn't seem to me to be making any moral judgments at all, so those complaining about this are setting up straw men to attack.

    And with things like D&D, when you play it it does put you in a mindset where you collaborate closely in a highly calculated way, it's how you play effectively, where that vast majority of people wouldn't be affected negatively at all by that. But the person with antisocial personality disorder (and any highly suggestible people around them) could be very negatively affected by learning to plot out killing something and the rush that comes with that in-game, being a hunter could trigger someone in the same way, and it's a sad statement that D&D carries a stigma of "occult" in the public imagination and hunting doesn't, but blaming the producers for this seems very odd to me.
    1casi-hamilton

    Only 4 out of 10 episodes actually about the Occult

    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.
    3mriordanobannon

    Gimmick-driven and badly researched but still interesting

    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.

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    • Release date
      • 2015 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Crimes Occultes
    • Filming locations
      • Beloeil, Québec, Canada
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