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Ask FlickChick: First Serial Killer Flick? And More! | Ask FlickChick | 6/21/2007
Questions about serial murderers in movies, a shower of blood, The Godfather II's Troy Donahue/Merle Johnson mystery and more.Send your movie questions to FlickChick.See Maitland McDonagh and Ken Fox review this week's new flicks in Movie Talk!Hear Maitland on the weekly TVGuide Talk podcast.Question: I love movies about serial killers and that got me to wondering: What was the very first serial killer picture? -- AlexFlickChick: I love "first" questions, because they always get the discussion going. I'd argue that Alfred Hitchcock's silent The Lodger (1926) gets the credit for being the earliest movie about a serial murderer. That said, it focuses less on the killer and his victims than on the increasingly concerned landlady who comes to suspect her upstairs lodger might be this "Jack the Ripper" fellow she keeps reading about in the newspaper. Fritz Lang's M (1931) seems to me the first film whose structure resembles that of contemporary serial killer pictures: It focuses on... read more
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