James Ellroy: Demon Dog Of American Crime Fiction

1993, Movie, NR, 90 mins

James Ellroy: Demon Dog Of American Crime Fiction: Review

If Son of Sam's voices had dictated feverish crime stories rather than sinister doggerel and murderous directives, David Berkowitz might have been James Ellroy. Odds are that most people know Ellroy through Curtis Hanson's film version of L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, and through the critically acclaimed My Dark Places, Ellroy's searing, nonfiction investigation of his mother's 1958 murder. This 1995 documentary -- which provides a glimpse behind the veil of fiction -- predates both, b... read more leave a comment