Green River Killer (2005)

Name: Green River Killer
Genre: Crime, Horror
Released: 2005-06-13
Duration: 83 min
Rating: 3.4
Cast: George Kiseleff, Jacquelyn Aurora, Georgie Donovan, Shannon Leade, Naidra Dawn Thomson

Green River Killer (2005), directed by Ulli Lommel, starring George Kiseleff and Jacquelyn Aurora.

06/13/2005 BR Crime and Horror 1h 23m

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20 Years. 48 Victims. No Remorse.

Synopsis

Over the course of 20 years, deranged serial killer Gary Ridgway murders dozens of prostitutes and dumps their bodies in a river.

Ulli LommelCinematography, Director, Producer, Story, Writer, Screenplay
Christian BehmEditing
Nola RoeperProducer
Robert J. WalshOriginal music

About the film

Green River Killer is a 2005 American crime film by Ulli Lommel starring George Kiseleff, Jaquelyn Aurora (as Jacquelyn Horrell), Georgina Donovan, Shannon Leade, Naidra Dawn Thomson, and Shawn G. Smith. It is based upon the crimes of serial killer Gary Ridgway.

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Plot

Based on the true story of serial murderer Gary Ridgway, the film depicts how he would approach prostitutes in bars, take them to his homes, brutally kill them and throw the corpses into the Green River, a pattern of behavior which explains his sobriquet, "Green River Killer." Soon, however, the police are on his track.

Cast

George Kiseleff – Gary Ridgway

Jaquelyn Aurora – Hedy

Georgina Donovan

Shannon Leade – Anna

Naidra Dawn Thomson – Irene

Shawn G. Smith – Coworker #1

Kimko – Coworker #2

Sebastien Szumilas – Kevin

Bud Watson – Defense Attorney

Carsten Frank – Boris

Filming

The documentary footage is of the real Gary Ridgway confessing to the killings.

The flashback of Ridgway's fictional "mentor," Boris, has a distinctly different look and atmosphere compared with the rest of the movie. That is because the footage was not shot by director Ulli Lommel but by German actor-director "Marian Dora," a pseudonym for the physician who began making gory horror films around the same time Lommel directed Green River Killer. Dora made Cannibal – Aus dem Tagebuch des Kannibalen, for example. Dora, who also worked on Lommel's Zombie Nation, in this flashback directs actor Carsten Frank as he strangles a woman.

Green River Killer was the second in a series of direct-to-DVD titles directed by Lommel and released by Lions Gate Entertainment under its Artisan label. The first was Zodiac Killer (2005). Green River Killer would soon to be followed by BTK Killer (2005) and Killer Pickton (2005). Other direct-to-DVD movies directed by Lommel and featuring serial killers would follow in 2007 and 2008.

Ridgway's home in the movie, which is a residence located in Marina del Rey, California, was also the house inhabited by "Producer McCoon" in Black Dahlia (2006).

References

External links

Green River Killer at IMDb

Text from Green River Killer (film) on Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_River_Killer_(film)

Trivia

The production budget was US$ 500.000.
It premiered on June 13, 2005, a Monday.
It runs 1h23 — short for a feature film.
This film's quiz has 12 questions — enough to play more than once without repeats.