- Network: Netflix
- Series Premiere Date: Jan 13, 2021
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings
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Positive: 12 out of 17
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Mixed: 4 out of 17
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Negative: 1 out of 17
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Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial KillerYour Score0 out of 10User ScoreGenerally favorable reviews- based on 17 Ratings
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Feb 7, 2022The only shocking thing I found in this documentary is the fact that serial killer Richard Ramirez had a fan-base. Yeah because nothing says sexy in a guy then a nocturnal, murdering, pedophile with poor hygiene and horrendous teeth.
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Jan 19, 2021
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Feb 24, 2021A compelling and well constructed docu-series.
The use of archival footage, photos etc, combined with the 2 key investigating officers ability to bring the case to life with their recollections makes this one of the better true crime doco's in recent years. -
Jan 19, 2021Okay I was hooked from the start. Also enjoyed how they showed the wholeeeee thing as far as what happened after the trial and such so it doesn’t leave you with any cliffhangers :) be wary of the graphic images got me a few times but this was very well done!
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Nov 20, 2021Read the book after watching this documentary bare in mind it’s very graphic and shocking. RIP victims
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Night Stalker’s fundamental flaw is a lack of purpose. It’s too meretricious to qualify as a “serious” documentary – it doesn’t tell you all that much that a trawl through Wikipedia could not – but its subject matter is too dark and depraved to qualify as light entertainment. Leave aside the sinister tone and genre cliches, and you’re left with not all that much: no exploration of evil, just a rote itinerising of it.
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Night Stalker: The Hunt For A Serial Killer might be to[o] grisly for some viewers. But for true crime fans, it’s a well-paced series that has a different perspective than most series in the genre.
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Where the series goes horribly, offensively awry is in the lurid packaging of the very solid interviews with the police, journalists, surviving victims, and families. Real crime-scene photos are used throughout the series, a choice that is profoundly upsetting but necessary to illustrate the animalistic horror.