Netflix often likes to double down on their true crime programming. For example, they released both Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and the Bundy biopic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile around the same time. They did something similar with Conversations with a Killer: The Jeffrey Dahmer Tapes and the series Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. Now they’re following the release of the true crime-inspired movie The Good Nurse (read our review HERE) with the release of the documentary Capturing the Killer Nurse. The teaser trailer for the documentary, which will be available to watch on the streaming service as of November 11th, can be seen above.
Directed by Tim Travers Hawkins, Capturing the Killer Nurse has the following synopsis:
Charlie Cullen was an experienced registered nurse, trusted and beloved by his colleagues at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. He was also one of history’s most prolific serial killers, with a body count potentially numbering in the hundreds across multiple medical facilities in the Northeast. Based on The Good Nurse, the best-selling book written by Charles Graeber and dramatized in a Netflix feature film starring Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne that released this fall – this new documentary from Emmy-nominated director Tim Travers Hawkins (XY Chelsea) reveals the twisted story behind Cullen’s hidden spree of murders. Using audio from Cullen himself and emotional sit-downs with those closest to the events – including whistle-blower and fellow nurse Amy Loughren, the detectives who cracked the case, author Graeber, and family members of the victims – the film traces how the truth was initially too shocking for anyone to comprehend, and how Cullen’s horrific actions underscore an even bigger danger still lurking in our healthcare system.
The Good Nurse was quite disturbing on its own, and I’m sure it’s going to be even more disturbing to get the plain facts from Capturing the Killer Nurse.
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