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A fascinatingly disturbing true-crime documentary, Tales of the Grim Sleeper isn't just about a serial killer, but a film about race and class and the value -- or lack of it -- that...
Filmmaker Nick Broomfield investigates the case of the Grim Sleeper, a serial killer terrorizing South Central Los Angeles for 25 years.
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- Nick Broomfield
Aug 30, 2014 · Broomfield’s subject, the eponymous Grim Sleeper, was a serial killer responsible for murdering upwards of 100 black women over the course of 25 years in South Los Angeles.
Sep 2, 2014 · “Tales of the Grim Sleeper” offers up the identity of the titular serial killer in the opening minutes, but it still revolves around a whodunit. Or, really, a who-didn’t-do-anything,...
Jan 30, 2015 · His subject is ostensibly the alleged serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr (nicknamed the Grim Sleeper), who may have killed more than 100 women over a 25-year period, but the real focus is...
- Geoffrey Macnab
Dec 26, 2014 · Tales of the Grim Sleeper is unusually somber and conventional by Broomfield's standards, relying more on slow accumulation of detail than caustic commentary or ambush interviews. But it has a quiet emotional force which pays off during the powerful final sequence.
Aug 30, 2014 · ‘Tales of the Grim Sleeper’: Telluride Review. Brit director Nick Broomfield's campaigning doc looks at the impact of class, race and poverty on a notorious serial killer case
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