In 2016, Ben Young’s disturbing Hounds of Love took the Venice International Film Festival by storm. This disturbing story of torture and extreme codependency won over...
Australian horror month began with Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (listen), then tackled Andrew Traucki and David Nerlich’s 2007 creature feature Black Water (listen). For week three, Jenn...
After kicking off Australian horror month with Greg McLean’s Wolf Creek (listen), Jenn and I have turned our attention to a crocodile-based creature feature. But rather than...
In the early 2000s, Stephen Johnston penned a series of indie horror movies chronicling the true crimes of serial killers, including Ed Gein, Ted Bundy, The...
In 2005, Greg McLean’s bleak horror film Wolf Creek made waves with its unflinching savagery and disturbing violence. The story follows friends Liz (Cassandra Magrath), Kristy...
You should always take a movie’s claims of being “based on a true story” with a grain of salt. Sure, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is...
Serial Killers of Women It’s been two months of covering films and miniseries adaptations of the crimes of Ted Bundy and Gary Ridgway. Jenn and I...
Ted Bundy was never one to shy away from the spotlight. During the ten years he spent on death row, the convicted serial killer gave interviews...
Though most casual true crime fans are familiar with Ted Bundy, many don’t know that shortly after his four-year reign of terror, another serial rapist and...
We spent the month of December discussing different adaptations of Ted Bundy on Murder Made Fiction – starting with a primer (listen) before tackling Matthew Bright’s...
With the Ted Bundy primer covered off (listen), it’s time for Jenn and I to dig into our first Ted Bundy adaptation. Writer/director Matthew Bright is…an acquired...
When most casual true crime fans think of Ted Bundy, the image of a smiling and distinguished young man comes to mind. Maybe he’s wearing a...
With any true crime story adapted for film or TV, we expect a certain amount of narrative license. Creators may sand off a few here and...
Jenn and Joe began November by unpacking the horrific Jonestown massacre of 1978 and Ti West’s mumblegore recreation The Sacrament. Now we’re headed to Waco, TX...
Faux Documentary. After spending the month of October discussing Ed Gein and the various cinematic adaptations of his crimes, including The Silence of the Lambs, The Texas...
Peoples Without The Apostrophe After spending the month of October discussing Ed Gein and the various cinematic adaptations of his crimes, including The Silence of the...
It’s a bit of whiplash to go from covering Psycho (listen), Alfred Hitchcock’s seminal 1960 classic, to Rob Zombie’s Southern-fried feature debut, House of 1000 Corpses,...
First Month Take-Aways. It’s been a busy and also heavy first month on the Murder Made Fiction podcast for Jenn and I. We’ve spent September looking...
When hearing the words Jeffrey Dahmer and early aughts horror combined, most genre fans would expect a grisly and upsetting film; an adaptation told with torture...
The next installment in the ‘Monster’ anthology series from Netflix and Ryan Murphy (“American Horror Story”) is titled “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story,” and...
After becoming the 4th most popular true crime podcast in the U.S. on Spotify, and 17th most popular overall, Bloody FM’s Murder In America is taking...
Katherine Kubler’s harrowing three-part documentary tells a suffocating survivor story that morphs into a terrifying takedown on America’s corrupt behavior modification boarding school business. “They tried...
Skye Borgman’s deep dive into an unsolved serial killer’s crimes unearths a whole family tree of pain, pathos, and progress. “A cold case is no substitute...
The latest film from writer-director Matt Ruskin begins in media res as an attentive neighbor overhears an attack on a female tenant in the unit next...
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