My biggest complaint is that the Richard Ramirez real life events are fascinating. However, this movies takes every interesting fact of the actual story and replaces them with fictional, cliched, serial killer TV drama. For instance, the fact that Richard Ramirez was finally caught by a Los Angeles mob kicking the crap out of him was replaced in this movie with a cop shoot-out (seriously).
The second problem is the director's choice to put style over substance. Like Darren Aronofsky's effective, stylized depiction of drug use in Requiem for a Dream, the director of this crap tries to do the same. It's interesting for about two minutes. But after that, we see the director has abandoned a storyline and character development for jarring cuts of Ramirez (played by a white guy with a white accent, altho the cops in the movie itself say Ramirez is latino with an accent) being harassed by a demon.
There are more problems with the film: the acting is sub-par even for TV, scenes that are completely unnecessary like the Lead Character meeting with a priest, so he can tell her that the case is not about evil vs. good. Here's the complete dialogue for Ramirez' character "Do you believe in the devil?" & "Die b&tch" - that's it. Sometimes horror-type movies can be so bad they're good, but this is just bad. 1 out of 10.
The second problem is the director's choice to put style over substance. Like Darren Aronofsky's effective, stylized depiction of drug use in Requiem for a Dream, the director of this crap tries to do the same. It's interesting for about two minutes. But after that, we see the director has abandoned a storyline and character development for jarring cuts of Ramirez (played by a white guy with a white accent, altho the cops in the movie itself say Ramirez is latino with an accent) being harassed by a demon.
There are more problems with the film: the acting is sub-par even for TV, scenes that are completely unnecessary like the Lead Character meeting with a priest, so he can tell her that the case is not about evil vs. good. Here's the complete dialogue for Ramirez' character "Do you believe in the devil?" & "Die b&tch" - that's it. Sometimes horror-type movies can be so bad they're good, but this is just bad. 1 out of 10.