Boston Strangler: The Untold Story Movie
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Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston during the early sixties. Guided by his manipulative cell mate, who knows more about the murders than he reveals, they devise a plan to gain all of the notoriety from the killings and the money from the reward. Meanwhile, Detective John Marsden, searches out the truth certain that they were not committed by one man. Fighting the bureaucracy of the day, Marsden lets his emotions get the best of him as he follows the trail of the murders.
| David Faustino | Albert De Salvo |
| Andrew Divoff | John Marsden |
| Kostas Sommer | Frank Asarian |
| Joe Torry | Arthur Winfield |
| Corin Nemec | Stuart Whitmore |
| Johnny Liska | Michael De Salvo |
| John Gorman | Greg Foster |
| Timothy Oman | Captain Parker |
| Jack Stehlin | Fred Addison |
| Jay Pickett | Detective Donovan |
| Sal Catalano | Detective Spinelli |
| Daniel Bonjour | Jr. Detective Richie |
| Edward Finlay | Ralph Palazon |
| Jude Gerard Prest | Dr. Arlen |
| Arthur Bonner | Store Clerk |
Visitor Reviews
Your not famous Albert your infamous!
posted on 22 Apr 2009**SPOILERS** The film "Boston Strangler: The Untold Story" doesn't take for granted that Albert De Salvo, David Faustina,is in fact that infamous serial murderer who terrorized the city of Boston from June 1962 to January 1964 murdering 13 women, ranging from 19 to 85, in the process.We get to see De Salvo as a petty criminal who got caught up with the frenzy of the strangler murders long after they stopped. Having been arrested for a series of crimes from attempted rape to breaking and entering and robbery De Salvo got influenced by his cell-mate convicted murderer Frank Asarian, Kostas Sommers, who convinced De Salvo that there was big bucks in him confessing to the strangler murders. ***SPOILER ALERT***It was then that a weak willed and desperate, in taking care of his family, Albert De Salvo fell hook line and sinker for it which eventually, in making himself a marked man behind bars, lead to his murder.We get to see De Salvo and Asarian cook up a number false claims and phony evidence in trying to prove that De Salvo was actually the notorious Boston Strangler. De Salvo who claimed that he had a photographic memory crammed all the evidence he could find, with the help of cell-mate Asarian, in his not so accurate mind that had him make a total fool of himself when he was asked by a state appointed psychiatrist to recreate the events.It's later in the film after De Savlo was given a life sentence for his rape and robbery convictions that he soon realized in talking with his, and Asarian,lawyer Stuart Whitmore, Corin Nemec, what a total mess he made for himself. Even though De Salvo was never tried or convicted, or in fact even indited, for the Boston Strangler killings the fact that he tried so hard to take credit, as well as make himself rich, for them influenced his jury to give him the ultra harsh sentence that he untimely received!We already see where De Salvo is going at the very beginning of the movie in his attempt, through the prison psychiatrist, to come clean and tell the truth about his involvement or non involvement in the killings that he so readily took credit for. As we all know De Salvo never lived to tell the story in him being found murdered in the maximum security Walpol Prison infirmary on the morning of November 25, 1973; De Salvo who took the secret of the strangler murders, and what he had or had not to do with them, to his grave was only 42 years old.Even though it's nowhere as well known or effective as the far more popular 1968 blockbuster version of "The Boston Strangler" staring Tony Curtis as Albert De Salvo this straight to DVD treatment of the story is more accurate given all the evidence that came to light, like DNA evidence disputing at last one of De Salvo's murder claims, over the last 35 or so years after De Salvo death. Nobody on the case ever took De Salvo's claims in being the infamous serial killer seriously especially the man in charge of the case Det. Jon Marsden, Andrew Divoff.It seemed that De Salvo was the perfect pasty in his willingness to take responsibly in the stranglers murders and the higher ups in both the Boston Police Department and City Government, in order to cover their behinds in them not being able to solve the case, gladly went along with him. If in fact De Salvo wasn't the Boston Strangler, as the movie claims, then who was? And if so did he, the real Boston Strangle, not only escape ultimate justice but keep on committing more horrendous crimes that escaped the eye of both the Boston Police and the local and National News media?
Absolutely terrible
posted on 27 Mar 2009"Boston Strangler : The Untold Story" is a poorly acted, horrendously written, low budget, garbage movie. This film fails on so many levels, it's difficult to know where to start. The acting is about on the level you would expect from a high school theater. As to why Bud Bundy was cast as the lead in this role, I'll never know. But to the actor's credit, they didn't have much to work with. The writing in this film is among the worst I've ever seen. We are forced to sit through many long pointless scenes and terrible, self-serving, completely unrealistic dialog sequences.I recommend no one see this movie. Doing almost anything else for an hour and a half would be a better use of your time.
Depalma should study this for his upcoming film on the same subject.
posted on 13 Nov 2008Brutal Kills,Tension,Scares,Beautiful Women, and a well thought out story make this a 10 in my book.For any of those of you who aren't familiar with Mike Feifer's past true crime/serial killer productions (Ed Gein:The Butcher of Plainfield, Chicago Massacre Richard Speck,and upcoming Ted Bundy)he's fast making a name for himself as one of the best horror directors in the business.In "The Boston Strangler:The untold story" Feifer explores the dark psychology consuming Albert Desalvo and brings a completely fresh take to the story by expanding on the possibility that Albert Desalvo wasn't really the Boston Strangler. The film suggests that Desalvo was seeking notoriety as his motive to confess to the crimes committed by the Strangler and brings in another possible suspect (played to a tee by Kostas Summer)as the true strangler. This theory was discussed for years in newspapers following the Strangler Murders but has since faded from the public's memory until now. A MUST SEE FOR THE HARDCORE HORROR AND TRUE CRIME CROWD!!!
Just finished watching this film and doing a little research on the Boston Strangler.
posted on 07 Nov 2008After watching this film I did a little research of my own, if the info I got while viewing the web page on wikipedia is correct, then the self confessed Boston Strangler Albert DeSalvo was clearly full of sh**t, although DeSalvo himself was a piece of sh**t, but he was not the strangler, my reasons for saying this, is because my research revealed that some of the women DeSalvo said he raped showed no signs of sexual activity, and although DeSalvo supposedly revealed details of the murders that were not made public, none of his descriptions of the crimes were ever confirmed, yet their speculating on whether DeSalvo really was the strangler.So I ask, what is so hard to grasp about the fact that DeSalvo took advantage of the Boston murders just so that he could get rich and famous or "infamous"? I for one would've supported the Sullivan family in saying that DeSalvo was not Mary Sullivan's killer.As for this film, its nothing more than a worn out subject, and the films that depict real life serial killers have never really been anything to write home about, and this one is just following the trend.Plus, people usually tell me to think a bit outside the box, if I had to give a profile, I'd say the strangler was pretty good at working his way into the lives of his victims, he was probably some secret love interest that the victims family and friends didn't know about, and probably preyed on a certain weakness, and he could've been a potential stalker watching his victims for days, one more thing, he might have more than a mother fixation, based on the fact that he also murdered elderly women, might want to look at someone else in the family or someone close to the family, and DeSalvo didn't go for elderly women.
Feifer is a one man movie machine
posted on 26 Sep 2008Using the HVX200 and perhaps some "Magic Bullet" filters, Feifer once again does a movie in 10 days with production values that rival films with significantly higher budgets. The plot is simple, the hunt for the Boston strangler, and how, at least in Feifers version, we may have caught the wrong man.Good Film? Not really, but Feifer has never admitted to being a great scriptwriter. Long scenes of circular dialog abound, and that puts a serious drag on the pacing. More interesting is that Albert DeSolvo is played by "Married with Children's" David Faustino, who did a better than expected job playing the wanna-be tough guy. It's a surprising cast choice, but like Feifers previous headliner picks (Kane Hodder for example), it somehow, works.Now is this a good film for a fledging filmmaker to study? Absolutely. And here's why - Feifer breaks cornerstone rules of film-making in the DVD commentary - he reveals all his cinematography techniques, he discloses that he wrote the script in 3 days and let his professional actors edit it down during film-making, and he freely admits his production budgets border on spit and tape.Bottomline, it's worth a look to learn a thing or two about how awesome the HVX200 can be in the right hands. And David Faustino has one very interesting scene midway through that shows that he does in deed, have some talent. But beyond that, there's not a whole lot to write home about.I give this a 7 more for the commentary than the film. But that's just me.
Will the real Boston Strangler stand up.
posted on 06 Sep 2008Michael Feifer writes and directs this "untold" story revolving around the terrifying serial killings of thirteen women in Boston in the early sixties. Police thought they had once and for all captured the infamous Boston Strangler in Albert DeSalvo(David Faustino). The women were sexually assaulted and left displayed with no shame and most strangled with their own nylon stockings. DeSalvo, psychotic and proud of the notoriety was convicted and later found stabbed to death in prison. The police were never fully convinced the killings were committed by just one man. This movie wants you to think you know who really did the killings other than DeSalvo.This movie does not carry the intensity or even the interest possessed by the 1968 BOSTON STRANGLER starring Tony Curtis. And Faustino is damn sure not a Tony Curtis. His casting as DeSalvo seems so ludicrous; and at times comes off as a cocky buffoon instead of a "psycho" killer. I kept waiting for this movie to get better and it never did. Also in the cast: Andrew Divoff, Kostas Sommer, Joe Torry and Corin Nemec.
Strangle me!
posted on 18 Aug 2009Boston Strangler: The Untold Story has been told. Not by this movie. It has been told by numerous docs and news shows. This movie is another example of low rent studios try to cash in on serial killer exploits no matter if it is a bad movie. Spike Lee showed with Son of Sam how to make a great movie based on a serial killer that has been covered from head to toe by docs and news shows. Nothing was shown that grabbed me by my collar. No tension existed. Either who ever made this didn't know how to build up to the murders or didn't care. They collected their money from the studio. They don't care what people think. I am pleading directly to the director and studio chief of this movie to stop this. Planet earth is over run with waste. We as a people do not need to add to it with this sorry movie. Where do disappointed people write to get a refund? Who is with me?