It can be boring to constantly write about true crime as lacking the deeply-thought-through intentionality to match its grave subject matter - in part because it happens so frequently. That the latter shot is handsome means about as much as does the impressive grossness of re-enacted shots of knives penetrating flesh, emerging coated in juicily crimson blood. In the main, the story follows Gil Carillo and Frank Salerno, the investigators tracking Ramirez they’re interviewed in the present day with every cliché about P.I.’s in the unfeeling city in evidence: forebodingly-darkly-lit interviews, a re-enacted shot of a lonesome cop car accelerating down a lonely street, lit by streetlights. Clogged with high-gloss but somewhat ludicrous footage, “Night Stalker” knows it’s about the deaths of innocents only inasmuch as that makes for a riveting story, but it lacks the seriousness of purpose to tell its story well. As an analysis of social madness, “Night Stalker,” directed by Tiller Russell, makes some interesting points those, though, tend to be studded within a project that gives itself away to mania more frequently.
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This, at least, is the case made by “Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer,” a four-episode documentary series on Netflix.
Over and above his grievous crimes, Ramirez was creating an atmosphere of fear and mistrust that overlay an unhappy period for California.
Richard Ramirez’s spree of terror through the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay Areas in 19 made for a psyche-shredding media fixation: The so-called “ Night Stalker’s” rapaciousness - targeting people seemingly at random and with an appetite for violence that set him apart even among the history of psychopaths - provided insatiable fodder for television reports, a side effect that both burnished Ramirez’s legend and increased the effects of his reign of terror.
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