Even the title was sort of off. Yancy McCord: The Killer That Arizona Forgot About. Shouldn't it have been "The Killer Arizona Forgot" or "The Killer Arizona Forgot About" if you think the word "about" is important there.
I clicked on it. I'm not into true crime stuff. I knew it wasn't 60 Minutes, but I thought it might be interesting.
It seemed to be a true crime thing made by a competent film crew who knew nothing about journalism. They were investigating the mass murder of a woman and her six children that happened in a town of fewer than 180 people in 1961. It was a ghost town now. They managed to find a few people with third-hand knowledge of the murders, and they somehow found the presumed murderer, Yancy McCord living under an assumed name.
I don't know if this is a spoiler, but it turned out it was a Blair Witch Project thing, about people who didn't quite know what they were doing launching an investigation with unfortunate results. People on IMDb said they enjoyed it once they knew it was fake.
The actors all had long lists of credits.
Apparently available on "Plex". I saw it on a different channel that appeared on my Roku without my knowkedge or consent. There were only a handful of things on it, so I deleted it. It was free, whatever it was.
An hour and a half long. It might have been better and more plausible if it had been 45 minutes, like they were hoping it would be a pilot for a true crime series.
Glad you blogged on this, Waldo, turned out to be really interesting, if a bit rough technically and logically. Apparently the writer/director/lead actor has more that one grammar quirk, but especially around ending sentences with a preposition!
ReplyDeleteDidn't even recognize Chris Robinson, though he seemed familiar, so seeing his name in the end credits was a surprise (I remember him from his 1970s/80s heyday). I thought he was excellent as Yancy/Yarnell - really brought the menace and sense of someone "not quite right".