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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

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The chilling true story of the "two of a kind" killing cousins, Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers.

Status: Released

Released Date: 1989-04-02

Runtime: 90 mins

Director: Steve Gethers

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie

Original title: The Case of the Hillside Stranglers

Production Companies: Fries Entertainment, Kenwood Productions

Production Countries: United States of America

Cast

Richard Crenna

Dennis Farina

Billy Zane

Tony Plana

James Tolkan

Karen Austin

Matthew Faison

Los Angeles Deputy D.A. Richard Carson

Robert Harper

William Bassett

Victor Brandt

Rick Fitts

Randy Kovitz

Michael Jackson

Jennifer McAllister

Reviews

GenerationofSwine

Caught it on Amazon Prime and it stinks of low rent made for TV cheese. I'll keep it short, it has a recognizable cast doing phone-in performances and direction that does a very good job of making a film about serial killers anything but titillating, ominous, or entertaining. There should be at least a little fascination of the morbid kind that goes with films like this. Instead it's a bore.

2023-01-12

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