The legend of La Llorona is fairly straightforward. A mother scorned by her thoughtless husband seeks an unthinkable revenge. Hoping to cut him to the...
Throughout September, the Murder Made Fiction podcast has been discussing La Llorona – first with a primer (listen here), then 1933 Mexican film The Crying Woman (listen...
Mexican Gothic. After kicking off September with a primer on La Llorona (listen here), Jenn and I began looking at texts with one of the earliest...
Throughout Mexico and Central America, children grow up fearing La Llorona. Also known as the Weeping Woman, this menacing figure is said to lurk near various...
When most casual viewers think of true crime titles, they picture cheap recreations of disturbing violence or salacious documentaries highlighting the voice of a killer. While...
Cannibal films can be many things. Some are grim depictions of survival at any cost while others are gut-churning stories of shocking depravity. We expect to...
After opening with the month with a primer (listen) on Ed and Lorraine Warren, Jenn and I have spent August tackling their first few cinematic adventures....
It’s been a whirlwind August on Murder Made Fiction. We’ve spent most of the month on a deep dive into Ed and Lorraine Warren, starting with...
The world of ghost hunting and paranormal investigation in the second half of the 20th century was dominated by one power couple. Demonologist Ed Warren and...
Shark Month continues on the Murder Made Fiction podcast. Following our cross-over with Horror Queers on 1975’s Jaws, Norwegian film, Kon-Tiki (2012), and 2003’s Open Water, we’re...
Shark Month is in full swing on the Murder Made Fiction podcast. We kicked things on when Jenn guest starred on an episode of Horror Queers...
When preparing her unprecedented case against disgraced surgeon Christopher Duntsch (Joshua Jackson), Assistant District Attorney Michelle Shughart (AnnaSophia Robb) had to make a difficult choice: either...
As Medical Horror month continues on Murder Made Fiction, Jenn and I move into the back half of season one of Peacock’s Dr. Death. We began June with...
Jenn and I have tackled ‘theme’ months before on Murder Made Fiction, including a month dedicated to Australian true crime, survival cannibalism and nearly two months on...
As far as the hiring team at Dallas Medical Center knew, their newest doctor, Christopher Duntsch, was a well-respected neurosurgeon with an impressive CV and a...
Complicated or Stilted? Jenn and I have reached the end of our month exploring texts on Countess Elizabeth (or Erzsebet) Báthory. The 17th century noble woman...
In 2005, Eli Roth’s Hostel took the horror world by storm. This gritty film about American tourists who become the playthings of wealthy international sadists helped...
Jenn and I are spending the month of May discussing Countess Elizabeth Báthory, the most notorious (and purportedly prolific) female serial killer in history. As Jenn...
Countess Elizabeth Báthory of Ecsed is widely regarded as one of the world’s most prolific serial killers. A Hungarian noblewoman born in 1560, she’s said to...
After a month of Amityville texts, Jenn and I are ready to flee the iconic haunted house (just like the Lutzs did in the original 1979...
Serial killer Israel Keyes will be the subject of a new TV series, with Maureen Callahan‘s American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer...
Fred & Rose West: A British Horror Story tells the story of the UK’s most notorious and prolific husband and wife serial killers through recently discovered...
Steve Guttenberg (Police Academy, Cocoon) will play real-life serial killer John Edward Robinson in the Lifetime movie Kidnapped by a Killer: The Heather Robinson Story, Deadline...
After a month of Australian true crime titles, including Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (listen), creature feature Black Water (listen), queer murders in Snowtown (listen) and, finally, abduction...
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