Kenneth Bianchi is a security guard whose attempts to become a police officer are repeatedly thwarted. Then he and his cousin join forces to set up a prostitution ring, which quickly earns them the enmity of a group of career criminals.
This relentlessly unpleasant film documents the true story of cousins whose murder spree in late 1970's Los Angeles was at first attributed to a lone killer known as the Hillside Strangler.
TV Guide
October 12, 2004
Parello's deadpan re-creation of the stranglers' repellent war on women is all the more chilling for being so matter-of-fact, and cinematographer John Pirozzi flawlessly evokes the grit-and-grime look of low-budget '70s crime films.
Dumbed down and sexed up, 'Hillside' cashes in on the overtly lurid aspects of the murders while giving short shrift to the more interesting psychological aspects of the case.
