10 Rillington Place (1971)

10 RILLINGTON PLACE  (1971)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Richard Fleischer
    Richard Attenborough, John Hurt, Judy Geeson,
    Pat Heywood, Isobel Black, Phyllis MacMahon
Richard Attenborough plays real-life serial killer John Christie, a whispering psychopath and accomplished practitioner of murder by strangulation and poison gas. John Hurt plays an illiterate bloke who's framed and then executed for one for Christie's crimes, a case that led Britain to abolish the death penalty. Attenborough's scary as hell in this, and the movie commands your attention, in its quiet, disturbing way, from start to finish. Creepy and horrifying.