Ramirez kills Netflix’ Top 10 most watched
Netflix takes their audience back to a chilling time in the 1980s, with its thrilling documentary on the notorious Night Stalker.
The new limited series Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer, dives into the gruesome crimes and search pro- cess of serial killer Richard Ramirez.
The series shines the light on detective Gil Carrillo and investigator Frank Salerno, an unexpected pair whose main goal is to bring Ramirez to justice.
In early 1985, the people of Los Angeles felt as though they were in a nightmare as a series of murders, abductions, sexual assaults, and burglarizing happened within the night throughout neighborhoods.
Within the series, it is shown that tension had been on the rise throughout different areas of law enforcement as Ramirez left no clues as to who he was and where he would be going next.
As Carrillo and Salerno tell their journey of investigating crime scenes and piecing the puzzle together to find Ramirez, the story is also told with crime scene photos, news reports and survivors’ perspectives.
Although a flaw of the documentary is that it does not go into depth of the mind of Ramirez, the audience will connect with the show as the aesthetic makes it feel like it is 1985 all over again.
The series director Tiller Russell not only brought the feel of the era to the audience but the emotions as well as he brought out many survivors to speak about their encounters with Ramirez and what they were feeling at that moment.
“Perspective is one of the most important decisions that ends up get- ting made in the course of telling a story like this,” Russell said as he was interviewed by Variety.
Overall, if you are a true crime junkie like me and happen to be looking for a good documentary that will give you the chills, then this may be worthy for you to watch.