Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
MovieTitle | Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer |
User score | 6.8 |
Release date | Sep 9, 2003 |
Genre | Documentary, Crime |
Director | Nick Broomfield , Joan Churchill |
Production country | United Kingdom, United States of America |
Production companies | Lafayette Films |
Run time | 89 min. |
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the serial killer Aileen Wuornos, a highway prostitute who was convicted of killing six men in Florida between 1989 and 1990. Interviewing an increasingly mentally unstable Wuornos, Broomfield captures the distorted mind of a murderer whom the state of Florida deems of sound mind -- and therefore fit to execute. Throughout the film, Broomfield includes footage of his testimony at Wuornos' trial.