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The Honeymoon Killers (1990x7)

Data di messa in onda: Lug 01, 1990

The Honeymoon Killers is a genuine classic cult film. It is a rarely seen docu-drama about two ‘lonelyhearts murderers’ - Nurse Martha Beck and Ray Hernandez - who together killed several of Ray’s wives and girlfriends in the 1940s. At one point in the film, we are told the year is 1951, but there is no attempt at period verisimilitude; working on a tiny budget, the film-makers used cars from the late 1960s, and locations that always look the same whether we’re supposed to be in Alabama or New York. The film was shot in black and white by Oliver Wood. It bears a striking visual resemblence to Night of the Living Dead, the other cult masterpiece made in Pittsburgh at around the same time.