ThiefHott
Too much of everything
Console
best movie i've ever seen.
Cooktopi
The acting in this movie is really good.
s264445
I rated this movie a 2 out of 10 for the simple reason it is fictional. The story of Ed Kemper is interesting especially to people who enjoy reading and studying serial killers like him, but this movie isn't that. They take the name of Ed Kemper and use it to make a movie and use the whole "based on actual events" trick to get it to sell. While they did use little tid bits here and there that were factual(like Ed sticking his moms vocal cords in the garbage disposal), this movie was fictional. That ruined the movie for me knowing that while watching it I wasn't seeing the actual story of Ed Kemper. Overall, if this was just another movie I would rate this up to a 5 for it just being a straight up independent film of new actors and directors(people have to start somewhere). But since this film used a serial killer's name to sell and claim to tell a true story, I give a 2.
deadskinmask87
If you watch this film and think it'll give you a good idea of the real events that this film is based on than you're going to be sadly misinformed. Crap crap crap of a film. Watch a documentary on the dude if you want a crazy story that is actually true. Really interesting serial killer. Once again terrible movie all around. The real guy hung out at a pub that was frequented with cops. He wasn't close friends with any of them and NONE of them NOT ONE had any idea that he was doing these crimes. He called and turned himself in from another state. He wasn't even a suspect. So even just watching the trailer to this movie I was like WTH?! I was extremely disappointed. Look up the real case and you'll have a good time with it. Dude was wicked and you think that someone would make a film worthy of that madness. Insane he was... Well save yourself the time and DO NOT watch this movie!
catfish-er
I saw KEMPER THE COED KILLER on Showtime the other night. I found it to be a good "true-crime" drama.Yes, the acting could have been better... For example, I kept seeing an aged Dustin Hoffman as Kemper; and, a corny Steven Weber as detective Harris. What a hoot that would have been! Even with the look-alike actors, I think KEMPER THE COED KILLER was fine for what it was. I think the acting was right on, the character development, though thin, was sufficient. The back-story filled in many of the missing pieces; and, the plot moved at a good pace.I don't know how accurate it is as to the facts, as I never research Ed Kemper, like I did Ed Geins. However, the plot points about the over-bearing, invalid mother are too similar to that story, to assume that the "real" story was anything like the movie. I doubt that it was.Still, Ed Kemper was a strange killer. He helps the police, he kills co-eds; and, hitchhikers, he kills his mother... those are not typical plot points in serial killer movies. I like that it was set in a contemporary time period, instead of a more historically-accurate time. It makes you wonder, "could this happen today?"
Zbigniew_Krycsiwiki
Only for the most desperate true-crime buff, this TV movie-quality dramatization is about serial killer Ed Kemper and one certain cop's bond with him and his pursuit of him. Lame acting, worse dialogue (written by a former soft-core porn screenwriter), plot holes aplenty, and lackadaisical direction and editing. Many scenes are wide angle master-shots with no real framing, as the actors just meander on screen and recite their lines of dialogue. The plot is not very fact based considering it claims to be inspired by true events, it deviates from the facts of the case almost from square one. It seems like the screenwriters were not even familiar with the case when they wrote the screenplay. An interesting movie could have been made out of the story, but they did just about everything wrong here. And I did not know that people had laptop computers and cell phones with text messaging and photos in the 1970s?
