The Final Girls

SERIAL KILLERS 28 • Serial Killers At The Movies

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Episode notes

In the finale for the season, Anna waxes lyrical about what makes a serial killer movie, and how it intersects with horror, biopics and true crime. Plus - why are there no good Jack the Ripper movies?

Includes extracts from Clarisse Loughrey, our interview with Eliza Clark, and Jenn Adams.

Read more:
Violent Delights by Sarah Marshall
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubehold
Death of a Bookseller by Alice Slater
Penance by Eliza Clark

Clips: Mindhunter, True Detective, Manhunter (1986), Ripper, Whitechapel, Jack the Ripper, The Simpsons, Hannibal, Dahmer, Seven, Copycat, Zodiac, The Cell and The Batman.

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Produced and presented by Anna Bogutskaya. 

Artwork by Ewa Ferdynus.

Music: "Erebus" by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio and CO.AG MUSIC 

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