Occult Crimes

Apparently "trash metal" is part of the Gothic subculture. Despite the fact that it's a true crime show, one can't help but chuckle at the idea that the people who put the show together sound like your concerned parents from the 1980s who watch too much Geraldo and have a really poor grasp on the words they are using. Don't listen to the trash metal and play Dungeons and Dragons, it'll turn you into a Satanic Gothic vampire! The cases themselves are pretty interesting and disturbing, but it's hard not to focus on how clueless the show's producers and narrator sound. I can't help but wonder if the staff were all homeschooled by fundy parents during the Satanic Panic.

Not only is the information regarding goth, roleplaying, and other subcultures is dismal (hint: most people in these groups are perfectly harmless, responsible adults), but the utter lack of research into the terms is kind of hilarious.

Dear narrator, Samhain is pronounced SOW-en, not SAM-hayn. Nosferatu is pronounced Nos-fer-AH-too, not Nos-FER-ah-too. Macabre is pronounced ma-CAHB, not ma-CAH-bruh.

Nothing says 'I have on idea what I'm talking about' like not knowing how to say simple terms.

Other than that, it follows the true crime show format, and the stories are interesting. It's just presented by hopelessly clueless people.

The show appears not to be American. Which i enjoyed because serial killers and cults presented were mostly new to me

Though the occult ties are loose in some cases and not always well researched, some could be considered down right insulting to the cultures and subcultures discussed. The way certain words are pronounced at time by the narrator and translator is certainly quirky to put it nicely. But the most bothersome thing to me is in the Chicago Ripper episode the black victim survivor either has the worst stage makeup ever or is a white woman in black face. Its offensive.

I can't stand watching dubbed interviews and that's the whole thing!

Pro Tip: Goth/DnD do not equal occult. Sure sometimes there's some overlap...but 4 goth kids in a car jacking gone wrong is not an occult crime. This show covers money laundering, serial killers, sexual deviants, and crimes of passion, but it doesn't really have a lot of occult in it, over all. Some of the episodes try so hard to make the occult connection that it's almost laughable. Oh, they were playing an online role playing game as they talked about killing someone...that makes this an occult motivated crime. No. it doesn't. I honestly don't know why I kept watching this show, it was just...bad.