Last week, Fathom Events gave a theatrical release to writer/director Daniel Farrands’ true crime thriller American Boogeyman, starring Chad Michael Murray as serial killer Ted Bundy. Next month, on September 20th, Fathom Events will also be bringing Farrands’ film Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman to 750 theatres nationwide for one night. A U.S. VOD release, courtesy of Dark Star Pictures, will follow on October 8th. In anticipation of these releases, a trailer has arrived online and can be seen in the embed above.
A companion piece / prequel to the film Monster, which was set in 1989 / 1990 and starred Charlize Theron as real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos, American Boogeywoman goes back to 1976 and follows
America’s most notorious female serial killer in Florida when she marries Lewis Fell, an older wealthy yacht club president only to inflict mayhem within her new family and Florida’s high society.
Peyton List plays Aileen Wuornos this time around. She is joined in the cast by Tobin Bell, Lydia Hearst, Nick Vallelonga, Swen Temmel, Meadow Williams, and Andrew Biernat. Bell plays Lewis Fell, with Hearst as Lewis’s daughter Jennifer. “The character is part of high society and heiress to her father’s fortune until she befriends Aileen.”
Temmel and Williams produced the film with Lucas Jarach, Luke Daniels, and Daniel Davila.
I don’t have much interest in Aileen Wuoronos: American Boogeywoman, but as a fan of Cobra Kai I am interested in seeing Peyton List play this sort of character, so I will probably be watching the movie at some point.
This is the fourth time Farrands has made a film based on real life tragedies. American Boogeyman and American Boogeywoman were preceded by The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and The Haunting of Sharon Tate, which were both accused of being in poor taste.