The Alphabet Killer (Blu-ray Disc, 2009)

The movie is "based on a true story" but veers off of it for dramatic effect and storytelling-- without spoilers, let's just say that a woman who has visions or hallucinations freaks out when the ghosts of murdered girls visit her, and it goes downhill from there.

Where the standard DVD has detail lost in the shadows, that detail is clear and crisp in Blu-Ray. Unfortunately that does not make up for the fact that the first half of the movie is on track, from halfway to two thirds of the way it flounders a bit, from the two thirds to three quarters mark it staggers, and the final quarter of the movie just doesn't really cut it.

Dushku is better here than in most of her TV work, but if it had been refined a bit it could have been a low budget "must see" instead of just lost in the crowd as indie work.


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