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  Review by Peter McCoubrey ★★★★★ 19

  I'm biased because my brother shot it, but the film is pretty great.

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  Review by MrSneakyMan ★★★ 2

  The brief interlude where McDermott loses his shit on his bed amidst a pile of Polaroids is one of the dark comedy highlights of the year.

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  Review by Keith Goulette ★★★★ 2

  So much more engaging than I expected. It’s a quiet movie, and a very well directed one too. That last scene interspersed with flashbacks that reveal a character’s fate carries such weight. And the last line kinda came out of nowhere and made me go “oof” when the screen went black.

  I’m so glad it’s not like what I pictured when I first read about it. It’s not hammy or corny, and each development is presented in a brilliantly understated way. I’m so glad a studio didn’t get ahold of this.

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  Review by eely ★★★ 1

  dylan mcdermott said gaslight gatekeep girlboss to his own son

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  Review by Cortney ★★★ 8

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  This completely lost me at the end. If your dad is BTK, please call 911 and rat him out, wtf. Sure, throughout the film I’m of course pulling for the kid and his manic true crime dream girl, but what I’m really pulling for is that the women his dad murdered and their families will receive closure and justice and to have that squashed, well it unfortunately soured the whole thing for me.

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  Review by lifestinxvx ★★★½ 6

  BTK home-invaded, tied up, strangled and asphyxiated ten people over the span of three decades while evading capture and leaving police scrambling in the dark. As far as serial killers go, BTK is an anomaly amongst the world of criminal psychology/profiling. He wasn’t abused as a child, nor had he experienced anything traumatic; he had fairly normal, appropriately affectionate parents; in the thirty+ years that he killed, he maintained the perfect all-American family life, having kids, a long term, faithful marriage, and he was even the counsel president of his local church and a Cub Scout leader. Somehow, all that time, he’d managed to keep his perversions a total secret from his family. In his downtime, besides the killing, he’d…

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  Review by neve ★★★ 1

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  dad: son you know i’d never hurt anyone

  literally 2 seconds later 

  dad: slams son’s girlfriend into a wall and knocks her out

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  Review by {Todd} ★★★ 4

  "Have a good time" -Dad,

  Not even a little bit kidding, the part of this movie that gave me true chills is when they showed a few seconds of a rock band playing in a church. I will take my chances against a serial killer before having to watch a damn christian rock band.

  I will be learning to tie a clovehitch knot now.

  2018 Ranked: boxd.it/1O9TO

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  Review by Sally Jane Black 12

  "Oh this could be an okay serial killer piece."

  *Killer puts on women's clothing*

  "Never mind."

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  Review by Pat ★★★ 2

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  he should have clovehitch killed his dumb son

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  Review by Danielle ★★★★½ 1

  Me during the first 10 minutes: He's just into BDSM, it's fine!

  Me during the rest of the film: ... It's not fine.

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  Review by Freyr ★★★½ 1

  Man, the hyper religious, repressed community in this movie was almost more upsetting than the serial killer plot line. Evoked some bad memories.

  Anyway, a quietly tense flick that impressively evokes a certain level of suspense, even though it never really does much to make you think that it isn't exactly what you think it is going in. I was uneasy early on, and remained that way through most of the film. It looks and sounds lovely, though there's nothing flashy at all about it. It's borderline mundane, which just adds to the disturbing reality of the concept. Plummer does a solid job as the son, and I liked Beaty as well, but McDermott is really impressive. I could hardly…