Review of Killer Legends (2014) by Marzia A — 19 Apr 2016

You really don't want to go in this documentary without really understanding the fact that rather than a collection of True Crime, it's actually analaying the origins of urban legends. If you're here for in-depth true crime stories, you're probably not going to be satisfied.

Now that's out of the way, I found the interviews with the locals of the birthplaces of these urban legends to be fascinating. The only part I think lacked cohesion to the overall goal of analysing the very roots of urban legends, was the sections on Killer Clowns as I think the filmmaker strays into talking about examples that are too contemporary, specifially the infamous shooting during the screening of the Dark Knight Rises. Also, with the contemporary example it opens itself up for critiscism of oversimplification of that tragedy.

But as a documentary, it flowed well and the editing was solid so this made it a rather easy watch.