Murder One

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 found this movie interesting for one primary reason: I am 99% sure it depicts a real event. I went to college in Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1980's, and sometime (I'd guess 1982) in that span, the local news covered this real incident, which I think happened in the 1960's. It had become a current issue in 1982 because the perpetrators were still behind bars, and I think the debate over the death penalty was involved. From what I remember of both the actual event and the movie, it follows the true story reasonably well. I certainly got the impression that the incident was a gruesome as the movie depicts it.

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.

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.