True Story Articles

Jerren Lauder’s ‘The Inhabitant’ Is Inspired By The Lizzy Borden Story

  Jerren Lauder (Stay Out of the F*cking Attic) is gearing up to unleash The Inhabitant, a new take on the history of the infamous true story of the Lizzie Borden murders.     Directed by Lauder and written by Kevin Bachar, the film...

Blu-ray Review: The Other Side of Madness (1971)

After a moody, dialog-free opening (a trend that will continue for much of the film's runtime) that shows the Manson family planning the Tate-LaBianca Murders as ol' Charlie observes, we shift our focus to some wild-ass hippie hootenanny taking...

Paul Bateson: The Serial Killer Who Starred In ‘The Exorcist’

    Did you know that a real-life serial killer starred in The Exorcist?   In 1972, director William Friedkin saw Paul Bateson perform a cerebral angiography in the  New York University radiology lab. Wanting to keep things as real...

A ‘Very, Very, Rare Crime’: The Guy Murders (True Crime)

A “very, very rare crime.” That's how the wickedness of Joel Guy Jr. was described only a few short days ago during his trial for slaughtering and dismembering his parents in their Harden Valley home. Joel Guy Jr. was convicted of two counts of...