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Chicago Massacre – Richard Speck Review - Film School Rejects
June 10 2007
July 14, 1966, Richard Speck entered a nurses dorm in Chicago. Once inside, he proceeded to torture, rape, and murder 8 young women in one of the bloodiest murders in history. Chicago Massacre is the second film I have watched in the past week to focus on this despicable excuse for a human being, the other one was called simply Speck. This one stars the unlikely candidate of Corin Nemec as our centerpiece killer, joining him in the cast are horror veterans Tony Todd (Candyman) and Andrew Divoff (Wishmaster, Lost). It is a low budget profile, but one that is not without its charms.
There seem to be a bunch of these serial/mass killer themed direct to DVD films hitting the shelves, including Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, and our subject at hand, Richard Speck. I guess there will always be a fascination with this sick, depraved individuals, and the horror that they bring into the world. I cannot claim to know a lot about these guys, and am probably more familiar with the even more disturbed film characters that they inspired, in whole or in part. Still, watching something like Chicago Massacre that is much closer to reality, without being real, never make the mistake of believing this to be reality, can be a disturbing event. Even watching a dramatized and perhaps sensationalized version of what really happened can still stir up emotions that you may not know you had. I know that I felt a little off-kilter watching this, and it is not particularly good, while not particularly bad.
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