Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Rodrigo Amaro With no originality at all and plenty of bad things in its core, "The Alphabet Killer" comes to ruin what could be a good story about the real events surrounding the alphabet killer, a psychopath that kidnapped and killed several girls whose initial letters were the same and he never got caught by the police. Eliza Dushku plays an detective working on the case, trying to discover who this guy is and trying to recover her own sanity after seeing strange hallucinations and visions of the victims while investigating the case. She gets some help from Timothy Hutton's character, a paraplegic psychologist and from another detective; and doesn't get along with her ex-boyfriend (Cary Elwes) who also covers the case. So, the movie is more about her traumatic and ridiculous moments than to save lives or catch a killer. The director and writers didn't know how to built a suspense and sustain a mystery, everything is so slow and they didn't know how to scare the audience (although the final revelation of who the killer was is so predictable that you might laugh or say that is unbelievably bad). It's not just that that ruins the film, it is also the twisted moments that Dushku has and we're forced to watch being the worst the scene where she escapes from the hospital where she was held, breaking the arm of a nurse even though she already dominated him, and he couldn't do anything with her. That scene is pathetic, also the scenes with her delusions and the "music in her ears" in the church scene."The Alphabet Killer" is filled with bad acting, a story with no involvement, no thrill, nothing. Dushku and Elwes are terrible, what a bomb! What happened to Elwes eyebrow? He looked like a old female witch; and Dushku had the guts to produce something like this. The surprising good acting in this thing comes from Melissa Leo and Martin Donovan playing the parents of the Walsh girl, one of the victims; Jack McGee has some good moments and Timothy Hutton is there for reasons of embarrassment and those things can happen with a previous Oscar winner.Movies inspired in real events usually are good and I enjoy it, but this one is a almost supernatural dramatic flick who has nothing good in it, a waste of time. Pathetic! 2/10

Girish Gowda This film is a true story and it is not a flashy film which tries to make money by the sufferings of these poor young girls. I cannot stress how much I loathe these paedophiles and rapists. I am a 20 year old guy and if I had any superpowers, I would kill every one of them. If you have read my other reviews, you will know that sometimes I feel very strongly about some issue and burst out like that. I am sorry if that makes you uncomfortable, its just who I am. I was browsing through my friend's DVD collection when I came across this and the cover was very interesting. So, I brought it over a couple of days back to see and the movie was very heart-breaking.A 10-year-old girl, Carla Castillo is found brutally murdered outside the small city of Rochester, New York, and obsessed police detective Megan Paige (Eliza Dushku) suffers a mental breakdown while trying to solve the crime. Megan is diagnosed with adult onset of paranoid schizophrenia and her fianceé breaks of the engagement. The police department is letting the case go into cold storage as there are no leads and the murder seemed to be a dead end. But Megan is convinced that there is a serial killer who goes after children with the same initials. When the child-killings resume two years later, Megan's return to the investigation also brings back her own horrific hallucinations. The only friend she has through all her ordeal is the wheelchair bound Richard Ledge (Timothy Hutton). Even if she can prove a double initial connection to the slayings, will she hang onto her sanity long enough to catch the paedophile psychopath? The director of 'Wrong Turn', Rob Scmidt directs 'The Alphabet Killer'. He is one director who looks very promising. He directs this film with a real reverence to the true events. Eliza Dushku gives her best here as the woman who can see the ghosts of the dead girls. The whole story revolves around her perspective of these killings and sometimes it is very confusing. Is she really schizophrenic or does she actually see those ghosts? Whatever the case maybe, those little girls really suffered from that psycho killer. I really hope that killer is brought to justice soon. The way those little girls are lured into the killer's car is very real. Many of the times, the killer will be a person who you trust. This sick guy doesn't need therapy, he deserves to die for his sins. The ending is chilling with the killer eyeing his next victim. Kenneth Shine, Tom Malloy and Timothy Hutton all give credible performances. This film can be quite traumatizing to below 16 year olds, so the R-rating is definitely deserved (there is also one scene where the beautiful Eliza gets naked, and there is also language and moderate violence, so beware).7/10

Coventry Fundamentally speaking the basic premise of "The Alphabet Killer" can be summarized in one simple sentence and that would be: homicide detective obsessively tries to catch a serial killer. This also means that the film homes in the same category as widely acclaimed masterworks like "Silence of the Lambs", "Zodiac", "Seven" and "The Pledge". Now you know that a modestly budgeted B-movie like this doesn't stand a chance to compete in such a league, so director Rob Schmidt ("Wrong Turn") and writer Tom Malloy aimed the film mainly at horror loving audiences. There's a sub plot similar to that of the TV-show "Ghost Whisperer", as the female protagonist Megan Paige develops a mental illness condition where she suffers from ghostly apparitions in the shape of the killer's youthful victims. To attract even more horror fanatics, there are supportive roles for veteran horror actors like Bill Moseley, Tom Noonan and Michael Ironside. Don't expect too much from that, however, since there merely just cameos."The Alphabet Killer" is inspired by facts as they occurred in the case of the double initial killings in Rochester, NY. Megan Paige investigates the murder of a teen girl named Carla Costilla, whose body was found miles away from her hometown in a little place called Churchville. Megan is convinced the killer deliberately selected the name and town and obsessively fixates her research on the C-C-C connection. When Megan fails to make any significant progress, she has a mental breakdown and attempts to commit suicide. Two years later, she slowly recovers from her mental condition – thanks to a lot of group therapy and Thorazine – and has a low profile job in the police archives. The alphabet killer returns and strikes twice in a short period. Megan begs her superiors to be part of the investigation, although she realizes this will have a severe impact on her mental state of mind. "The Alphabet Killer" certainly isn't a bad serial killer movie. The plot unfolds slow but atmospheric and there are multiple noteworthy moments of suspense. There are also a handful of grisly images, namely the make-up effects on the murdered girls, but since the script is based on recently occurred true events and since the victims are children, you naturally shouldn't expect any gore or controversial undertones. The plot ultimately reverts to clichés and predictable twists, unfortunately, but I suppose that's forgivable. Eliza Dushku is a good actress, but she's not fully convincing as a supposedly brilliant and experienced serial killer profiler. She was slightly more at her place as the gorgeous dame in distress in Schmidt's previous shocker "Wrong Turn".There's an incredibly redundant and gratuitous sequence somewhere halfway the film, when Eliza Dushku grabs her new partner by the neck and, for no apparent reason, pulls him into a passionate kiss and loving embrace. The scene actually makes sense if you know that this guy, Tom Malloy, is in fact the writer and producer of "The Alphabet Killer". Clever! If it were my party, I would also seek a cheap excuse to make out with Eliza Dushku!

Rathko A schizophrenic police officer refuses her medication and tries to deal with her increasingly vivid hallucinations while investigating the rape/murder of several young children. Rob Schmidt, responsible for the fun Hickspoiltation flick 'Wrong Turn', directs a dark police procedural that for all its claim to be 'based on a true story' really bares nothing but the most superficial resemblance to the real crimes of 1973. The original twist of featuring a protagonist who suffers from a debilitating mental illness is sorely wasted. Everything about the movie - from the script to the performances to the production design - is serviceable (nothing screams outright incompetence), but complete averageness on all fronts delivers a completely forgettable experience. Pass.