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ffers movie recommendations inspired by new releases, premieres, current events, or occasionally just our own inscrutable whims. This week: With the Denzel Washington thriller The Little Things hitting theaters and HBO Max, we’re looking back at other movies about detectives hunting serial killers.
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The Boston Strangler (1968)
Long before Zac Efron showed he could use his chiseled good looks to hunt unsuspecting victims as real-life serial killer Ted Bundy in Netflix’s
The Boston Strangler. Based on Gerold Frank’s book, and directed by the late journeyman Richard Fleischer, the 1968 thriller cast the
Some Like It Hot star as Albert DeSalvo, who murdered 13 women throughout the Boston area in the early ’60s.