Apart from some unnecessary nudity and sex scenes, this is quite a good interrogation thriller. I mean do we really have to know about Daniel's personal life, including her partying exploits, doing joints and guys she doesn't remember going to bed with, plus her cheating boyfriend, who she literally kicks out the house. No. I mean is that really the behavioral norm of an upscale psychiatrist. Especially one who's interviewing, notorious, hillside strangler killer, Kenneth Bianchi. But remember, things were different in the seventies. People were more looser and wilder. If anything, this movie is something of a fascination. Daniels and Clifton Gonzalez Jnr play good off each other, it was an interesting choice of casting, though Clifton, great seasoned actor that he is, was more powerful, if overdoing it in parts, playing child like, innocent, where Daniels finally catches him out. Clifton had been trying to fool her, playing two personalities, where something small gave him away, as does with all serial killers, that leads to their capture. Sometimes, the mistakes they make are so stupid, these intellectual psychopaths should get twenty plus years added to their sentence on the charge of stupidity. Daniel's character had to be fictional though. I just couldn't believe this was the same woman taking Bianchi's case. Even her girlfriend, played by the ugly woman in Hudson Hawk, also in the legal profession, offers her a joint. The seventies were really grouse. These outside fictional touches, I did like, even though it did sway the real story away, or disrupted it, a few times. Do, remember, another hillside strangler film, the better one, came out two years prior. I just thought this unnecessary stuff I didn't mind, was futile, if you can make sense of that. This one's still with a look, where we too view the other bad half, Angelo, in minimal scenes, his true to life character, running somewhat different rivers to Nick Turturro's Angelo in the other hillside strangler one.