Now that I think of it - maybe as usual - I have an impossible goal. Trashy yet non-generic? Is that even possible? The only true crime things I've liked are staid documentaries like PBS Frontline. And - of course - that's in a different universe from trash.
The closest trashy thing wasn't actually trashy - it it's a tv movie. I recommend it but there's a caveat: The Night Stalker (TV Movie 2016).
Lou Diamond Phillips plays Ramirez. He's great and creepy. For a tv movie the photography and cinematography are great. Example - dance floor scene I really liked how the flashback scenes of LA in the 1980s were spot on down to the tiniest little details. There's a non-memorable scene where characters are having breakfast and everything in the house including the cheap glasses and dishes are period piece perfect.
The caveat is that there's a bait-and-switch and it sort of pissed me off. Ramirez is basically a minor character. The reporter interviewing him is actually the lead in her present day and in flashbacks when she was a girl. That's her on the dance floor.
Now that I think of it - maybe as usual - I have an impossible goal. Trashy yet non-generic? Is that even possible? The only true crime things I've liked are staid documentaries like PBS Frontline. And - of course - that's in a different universe from trash.
The closest trashy thing wasn't actually trashy - it it's a tv movie. I recommend it but there's a caveat: The Night Stalker (TV Movie 2016).
Lou Diamond Phillips plays Ramirez. He's great and creepy. For a tv movie the photography and cinematography are great. Example - dance floor scene I really liked how the flashback scenes of LA in the 1980s were spot on down to the tiniest little details. There's a non-memorable scene where characters are having breakfast and everything in the house including the cheap glasses and dishes are period piece perfect.
The caveat is that there's a bait-and-switch and it sort of pissed me off. Ramirez is basically a minor character. The reporter interviewing him is actually the lead in her present day and in flashbacks when she was a girl. That's her on the dance floor.
I'll have to come back to this later, about to step out for the night, but thanks for sharing your thoughts comrade!