SCREEN SCREAMS! Part 1
SCREEN SCREAMS!
Did you know that many of
the exhibits at The True CRIME Museum come from CRIMES and CRIMINALS whose
stories have been turned into MURDEROUS MOVIES!
Our Curator (and True
CRIME movie obsessive) JOEL GRIGGS talks about three of his favourites…
“Here at the museum we have the original bottles that held the CONCENTRATED SULPHURIC ACID used by the British Serial Killer JOHN GEORGE HAIGH to dissolve his last victim. (You can see them in this video I made about the case here):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK-qajHcKqI
Haigh’s hideous and
deceitful murders were also told in the 2002 ITV film; ‘A IS FOR ACID’ starring
Martin Clunes as the killer. (The full movie is also on Youtube but the
transfer quality is not brilliant, so buy the dvd)
I had LOW expectations for
this, as I’m not a Clunes fan and often find UK TV true crime dramas bland and apologetic
for the ugliness of their subject matter. No such issue here though, as into
the oil drums go his victims, all soon reduced to sludge...