Fred y Rose West: Una historia de terror británica

I don't understand the negative reviews. I found this a compelling mini series. The police footage was intriguing. I had never seen it before. This was a human story that really took the family of the victims into account in a thoughtful way. If you just want gore details then you may be disappointed but for me, it was dark enough. A true life horror story that shone a light on the cruelty and depravity some human beings are capable of. Including many of the people involved in the case then and as they are now brought an added dimension. This documentary stayed with me after viewing. I appreciate Netflix makes by a sensitive, watchable documentary that didn't stoop to gutter level.

Harrowing documentary, however, chunks of key details and Info left out/missing. If you've never watched a documentary regarding the story before then you'll probably find it really good, whereas for myself I've watched a few docs over the years about it which were a bit more in depth and included extra details etc.

All in all a very decent documentary regarding the shocking story but lacking key details, evidence and info. Three relatively short episodes which you can binge in one night so it's definitely worth a viewing especially if you've never seen a documentary regarding it before. 7/10.

Good grief, what just happened; how did this director manage to turn this juicy story into such a slow, sluggish, soporific, limp d1ck of a docu?

Full of pauses, rife with semicolons, padded with empty moments, lingering shots, lingering statements, lingering exposition, flaccid structure, full of... stuff, circling around the same things over and over, you find yourself wandering off midway counting your unpopped corn kernels, confused, mysteriously nauseous, wondering why you are bored with so much original creepy VHS footage of such yucky scary villains.. yet, you are. I watched the whole thing yet I'm unsure what happened to whom or how each one happened.

It's a doc deader than the victims, it's like those Delia Derbyshire recordings of dreams, on and on and on, drifts you to sleep - awful. Ugh.

They had everything to make this a perfect documentary on a silver platter

They had visuals, the recordings, the law enforcement and journalists involved, first account witnesses - the victims, victims families, previous tenants, even the West's own children. Yet they still fell so flat when it came to telling the story of such a complex case.

To tell this story, you NEED to go back to the beginning and go through the events that led to them getting caught. Yet so many facts and details were completely glazed over or ignored. A solid timeline wasn't even established. A breakdown of their family structure wasn't given, just that they had kids together and a part. It's so disappointing how lazy the storytelling was. They had THREE episodes and spent majority of it yapping about the more minor details.

PSA: Morbid podcast does a 4 episode deep dive into this case that's really thorough. Puts this to absolute shame.

I've been eagerly waiting for a solid documentary about Fred and Rose West, especially since their story is one of the darkest and most complex in British true crime history. Having nearly read all the major books on the case, I came into this series with high expectations for a detailed and thorough exploration. Unfortunately, while it does cover the basics, it doesn't dig nearly deep enough into the twisted dynamics, the psychological aspects, or the wider context of their crimes.

There's so much more to this horrible story that's been overlooked or only lightly touched upon here. I agree with the other reviewers, that this series feels like a surface-level retelling rather than an in-depth investigation. It misses the chance to fully unpack the chilling details and the impact on the victims and their families.

For those new to the case, it might serve as an introduction, but for anyone who's already familiar with the extensive research available, it's a bit disappointing. I was hoping for a more gripping and comprehensive documentary that truly does justice to such a grim chapter in British crime history.