Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman

For anyone even vaguely interested in the real story - or even interested in real writing and acting - do yourself a favour and watch Monster (2003).

In the 2003 movie, the producers/writers/director went to great lengths to make sure the movie was guided by real facts, and picked a cast capable of delivering performances so strong that at times it seemed more like a documentary.

American Boogeywoman by contrast delivers little more than you'd expect to find in gossip magazines, with production/writing/acting more at home in "Days of Our Lives" than in a movie.

Seriously, give this one a miss.

Because the truth wasn't bad enough they had to fabricate large parts of the story? Whoever made this apparently flunked out of film school. The writing, acting and cinematography are terrible.

This Film is Freaking Mess, the writing is awful, it's rushed, its just fictionalized version of Aileen's life, Farrands should be Ashamed of the the films he makes and Poor Peyton she honestly deserved better, she's an excellent actress but she didn't need to be in this movie, Peyton should get on the phone and have a word with her agent.

I wouldn't waste your time watching this. At the end of the movie I questioned why Netflix would stream this one. It is hard to have any compassion for a murderess who shot 7 men in cold blood. Peyton List does her best portraying her but it just falls short. The other actors in this are just so-so. Skip this one and watch something else,

Just before her execution, Aileen Wuornos told Nick Broomfield, the British film maker who documented her life with hundreds of hours of tape and believed she was so mentally ill that the State of Florida was killing a child that, ºThey will all make money on me when I'm gone."

This film is proof. It's a disgusting exploitation of the life of a woman who suffered through a childhood that would make Dickens weep. It does nothing to elevate the lives of the men she killed nor does it show the way Wuornos herself was failed by child welfare services and her defense attorney.

Too soon, folks. Too soon. The earnest young actress tries to save it. But too soon.

Skip it. Watch "Monster," or Brookfield's outstanding "Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer,"