Based on a true story, Woman Anna Kendrick start (and makes ger directorial debut) as Sheryl Bradshaw, a struggling actor trying to break into the business in 70s LA.

Her agent books her a gig on a blind date show where she meets Bachelor #3, a charming, unassuming, not too handsome not too ugly photographer Rodney Alcala (played by Daniel Zovatto).... who also happens to be a serial killer.

Very good, VERY CREEPY, eerie, and unsettling movie

Looks great, 70s aesthetic is very good, very real and lived in... believable

Costume, sets etc.... Totally feels like it's the 70s

Daniel Zovatto is SUPER CREEPY in the role. Charming but not arrogant, just enough riz to get the woman where he wants them to be.... (I had to double check with my kids that I as using the word RIZ correctly)

Shout out to Tony Hale who has a small role as the host of the show, he's not in it much but he plays that part really well.

Structure wise, theres 2 timelines, there's Sheyls story (struggling actress) and there's Rodney's timeline (creepy killer)

Eventually those to timelines intersect when the meet and match on the dating show

The chronology jumping is a little disjointed at times..

Feels like instead of a traditional, 3 act structure (beginning, middle and end) they've just gone with 90 mins worth of a 2nd act...

Which isn't an outright negative.... But its not s total positive either

There's a scene in the bar with kendrick and Zovatto, and he's wanting to order another round but she's feeling there's something off... So she gibes a quick look to the waitress who totally sees it in kendricks face...

Its a brilliantly directed, staged and acted scene... The characters are saying one thing, meaning another... The way the subtext of that scene is brought to life is just pure class.

Well done.

Its not an easy film to watch, deals with some pretty horrific stuff... But its not gratuitous.... You sont really see any of the crimes.... (you do see the aftermath)

So its quite restrained in that way, it let's the viewers imagination fill in the how and the what... Which in some ways is scarier (ots definitely effective)

The fact it's based on s true story, that this guy existed and did these things.... Gives you shivers.

I as much as its a movie about a killer... Its equally about how women were treated day to day back in the 70s.... (and much of the social commentary on that front is sadly still relevant today (but I'm aware, as a guy, there's only much I'm able to understand and appreciation on that front)

Gonna go with 7/10 for Woman of the hour,

A very confident and assured directorial deb ut from Anna Kendirck, structure / pacing issues aside, I thought this was a pretty decent movie

Its on Netflix, its only like 90 min long, definitely worth a look.

Did this actor ever discuss this personal tribute to him in any interview, all these decades later?