All the other reviewers are holding Ulli's other films against him. This one is easily his best in a long time and maybe the best attempt at capturing the real berkowitz on film.
If you saw Spike Lee's Summer of Sam then you know it did a pretty bad job at portraying Berkowitz and focused more on the community and the fear and hysteria that it had to deal with. This may be relevant to Spike Lee having grown up out in 1970s New York but I don't see how that was more important than David Berkowitz himself and how many people are going to relate to a film more so aimed at capturing the 70s in New York.
Ulli got it right this time and he must have done some homework as there are a few things that happen in this film(wont reveal the spoilers) that have definitely never been in a son of sam film and are directly from his life. I know its not perfect by any means but the Satanic cult backdrop and the use of the talking dog clearly showed an ambitious attempt at portraying Son of Sam correctly versus making him look like a brainless idiot (like Spike Lee's version) and if your a horror fan I don't see how you would think Lees film is better as its a bad drama. I'd like to see a studio do a film on Berkowitz and if they do they should definitely check this out for reference.
If you saw Spike Lee's Summer of Sam then you know it did a pretty bad job at portraying Berkowitz and focused more on the community and the fear and hysteria that it had to deal with. This may be relevant to Spike Lee having grown up out in 1970s New York but I don't see how that was more important than David Berkowitz himself and how many people are going to relate to a film more so aimed at capturing the 70s in New York.
Ulli got it right this time and he must have done some homework as there are a few things that happen in this film(wont reveal the spoilers) that have definitely never been in a son of sam film and are directly from his life. I know its not perfect by any means but the Satanic cult backdrop and the use of the talking dog clearly showed an ambitious attempt at portraying Son of Sam correctly versus making him look like a brainless idiot (like Spike Lee's version) and if your a horror fan I don't see how you would think Lees film is better as its a bad drama. I'd like to see a studio do a film on Berkowitz and if they do they should definitely check this out for reference.