Manhunt [DVD]

However, I seen this movie, and the TV movie of Manhunt: search for the Night Stalker is very dull, it is trying too hard to be a "chiller-Thiller" and a feeling of suspense, but it fails to do that because of hammy performances.
The script was terribly careless, for example, one of Gil Carrilo's Daughters was called Rene, but 34 minutes into the movie, Gil's Wife, Pearl called the same girl "Mica".
Richard Jordan, who plays a seasoned Detective always "feels things" in this case, he tells Sheriff Grimm as he proves one Serial Killer is operating the crimes "This is one Guy doing this - I can feel it" and said to his Partner, Gil, "I have a funny feeling about tonight - he is going out again" and when they pursue Ramirez prior to ID him in the Newspapers, Jordan says " I can feel it Gill it is all over".

The writers must never put their heads together to think about the "real" lives of these Detectives, because when Richard was caught Jordan turns to Gill and says "we will be living with this for a long time!" For an experienced Detective who also worked on the Hillside Strangler case, it is an unrealistic line - I am sure other Viewers will find this line quite false. All the Actors were given terrible lines, and the acting was bad too. Richard Ramirez should be portrayed by a talented actor, but NOT Gregory Norman Cruz, he was equally bad! a fellow critic pointed out once that "Greg had a single distinctly wicked Harpo Marx expression, The Real Richard was Handsome as a Movie Star - Girls flock to him, but nobody will to this guy but flies", and I agree with that completely.

It is a predictable movie with bad enactment, that should instead produce the feel of Los Angeles in 1985, like show statistics of Guns sold by the hour, or vast amount of people being alarmed when staying up at night when being jumpy of a nuance of sound, because the minds plays tricks on the people,
the scary aura of the city at that time was absent in this film, it is not a convincing thriller.

Anyway! I read Philip Carlo's book and that is miles better.
Read the book instead.