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Documentaries like The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness

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The 3 reasons people love The Sons of Sam: A Descent into Darkness

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  1. You like 1970s New York, its tabloids and its summer of fear.

  2. You like following a theory that the killer did not act alone.

  3. You like a portrait of a man consumed by his own investigation.

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  • I'll Be Gone in the Dark2020

    • following a theory that the killer did not act alone
    • a portrait of a man consumed by his own investigation

    Good for you if you like an amateur detective piecing together clues decades old.

  • Crime Scene: The Times Square Killer2021

    • 1970s New York, its tabloids and its summer of fear

    Good for you if you're drawn to the New York of the 1970s and its Times Square.

  • The Ripper2020

    • 1970s New York, its tabloids and its summer of fear
    • following a theory that the killer did not act alone

    Good for you if you like a portrait of Yorkshire in the late 1970s.

  • Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes2019

    • 1970s New York, its tabloids and its summer of fear

    Good for you if you like 1970s archive footage of a case that marked America.

  • Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer2021

    • 1970s New York, its tabloids and its summer of fear

    Good for you if you like the feel of 1980s Los Angeles in archive footage.

  • Cropsey2010

    • following a theory that the killer did not act alone

    Good for you if you like two filmmakers digging into the disappearances of their childhood.

  • Don't F**k with Cats: Hunting an Internet Killer2019

    • following a theory that the killer did not act alone

    Good for you if you like an investigation solved from tiny details in the background of a video.

  • The Keepers2017

    • following a theory that the killer did not act alone
    • a portrait of a man consumed by his own investigation

    Good for you if you like an old case reopened by people who refuse to drop it.

  • Zodiac2007

    • following a theory that the killer did not act alone

    Good for you if you like a cartoonist, a reporter and a detective trying to crack a killer's coded letters.

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