Murder One

i have yet to see the movie, but i must reply to some of the previous comments. the people portrayed in the movie are my family. and as for "needless violence"-these people were needlessly murdered. Mary was forced to watch her family die. she was raped. she was lead to believe she was being let go and then shot in the back. i don't know how the movie goes, i don't know how the book goes. but i know they were all brutally murdered and i can guarantee you all that if those bastards ever escape jail again, they will be murdered themselves... people are still extremely upset about what happened and believe that justice has not been served...

I have looked for this movie many times. I recall seeing it 20 plus years ago and that image stayed in my mind. The brutality of the way they killed this family. I had sleepless nights and now I want too view it again. This poor country southern family were killed in cold blood. It had an impact on me. I can't think of any movie that effected me like murder one. It's based on a true story, it was on the local news. This was real! I know I was a different person then. So I'm looking forward to seeing it again........ It's like something you have looked for years and finally find it. It was compelling and sickening at the same time. However it was true. After I see it I Wanna find out what happened to those that killed them. It seems like they lived in a small country house or........ A trailer. Yes a trailer I think. Monsters is what they are or were.

I found this movie interesting for one primary reason: I am 99% sure it depicts a real event. I went to college in Atlanta, Georgia in the early 1980's, and sometime (I'd guess 1982) in that span, the local news covered this real incident, which I think happened in the 1960's. It had become a current issue in 1982 because the perpetrators were still behind bars, and I think the debate over the death penalty was involved. From what I remember of both the actual event and the movie, it follows the true story reasonably well. I certainly got the impression that the incident was a gruesome as the movie depicts it.

The characters and incidents depicted in the movie are all too real. Carl Isaacs was executed May 6, 2003 for his role in the 1973 murders. There are discrepancies that always arise when trying to tell a true story, but the basic facts are there. The murders in the movie are brutal and senseless. The actual murders were just that. Still, the movie rates no more than a 5 out of 10. Better than much fare found on TV, but not much better.

Being a horror buff I also follow the life of mass murderers and serial killers. Let this flick being based on a true event about brothers killing a few people on a farm.

Sadly it just didn't work out as I thought it should have. It was boring as hell. It was slow and the killings were laughable. Look how the old men on a bed was shot and even later supposed to be dead he's still breathing. And the girl being raped, what the hell was that. So laughable how she was screaming even when the rape stopped. It should get you by the throat because when the two brothers escape from prison and go back home to pick up their guns their youngest brother Billy ,only 15, agrees to go with them not knowing they are on a killing spree.

It all looked so tame and dull but the real events weren't. Not what I thought it would deliver...

Gore 0/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 3/5 Comedy 0/5