9/10
The Tool Box Killers
7 May 2024
The full title of this documentary is SCREAM FOR ME: THE TOOLBOX KILLERS (all in block - without the colon if you prefer) and although it is far from the first one made about these two monsters, it is certainly the most off-beat.

It is narrated unusually through two voices, the second correcting the first. As it was made after the deaths of both men and as the intrepid Laura Brand visited Lawrence Bittaker in prison, it contains more information than any previous film, including mention of Bittaker's pastime of filing frivolous lawsuits (on the Government dime) which led to him being declared a vexatious litigant. The one definite mistake herein is a trivial one - Roy Norris was 72 when he died, not 79.

As with other documentaries in the genre, it comes with a warning to viewers of a sensitive nature; at least one person - a hardened detective - committed suicide as a direct result of working on the case. If after Ted Bundy, John Gacy, 9/11 and now October 7 you still do not know what evil is, Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris will inform you.

One final point, this Laura Brand is not the wife of Russell Brand but a star in her own right.
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