Le Traqueur de la nuit: Chasse à l'homme en Californie

Very disturbing/ well made documentary from Netflix. " A soul driven by the devil cannot be rescued. " It was an emotional rollercoaster to go through the burglaries, assaults, murders and witnessing the still terror in the survivors eyes despite it has been decades since then. You'll hate him for all the pain he has caused to people. Regardless, this mini series will open up the doors to hell and tell you a real story of how cruel a soul can get. Worth binge watching? Definitely.

I watch quite a few crime documentaries. This one had some good points and some bad ones. Firstly the bad ones: 1) Lots of unnecessary 'scary' sound effects and footage. You know the big clunking sounds, the eerie music in the background. 2) More footage of the crimes and more prurient descriptions than necessary. Look, just tell us what happened, show a few quick shots. But no, got to zoom in and out, describe every detail, revel in how shocking each crime is. 3) The zooming in and out on portraits of the killer, all the usual Hollywood guff that just isn't needed. 4) It was quite drawn out. There's a lot that can be fast forwarded here. Could have been about 2 episodes. The good points: 1) I really like the focus on the detectives. How they handled the case, what evidence they had, how politicians and reporters stuffed them up, the rivalry between difference jurisdictions and how they didn't work together and so on. Also, the detectives had fairly large family problems due to the time they had to put into the case. 2) It was a series of crimes I hadn't heard about. This is a very "Hollywood-ised" documentary.