In October 2002, the American serial killer Aileen Wuornos, serving time for murdering seven men while hustling in Florida, was executed.
Her final words? “I’ll be back, I’ll be back.” This autumn, with the help of a clairvoyant filmmaker, Wuornos makes good on that promise.
Premiering October 8 on video-on-demand services, Daniel Farrands’ indie picture Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman introduces cineastes to Wuornos, reincarnated.
Through a clever blend of biopic and midnight movie techniques, Farrands reimagines the killer’s young adulthood in the seventies and the circumstances that sealed her fate well before she fired her first misandrist bullet.