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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer
This documentary provides an insight into the mind of Aileen Wournos (whose story is the basis for the feature film "Monster"), a deeply paranoid yet sympathetic person who lost her mind and killed seven people. (Nick Broomfield)
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Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer

2003
Documentary
1h 33m
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Rated 14 Aug 2007
81
71st
Pretty good documentary
Rated 14 Aug 2007
62
20th
Incredibly sad story. The documentary wasn't that great, though. Director Nick Bloomfield is a poor narrator, and the first half of the movie struggles to find a thread to follow. Wournos' interviews provide the most chilling, intense moments.
Rated 15 Dec 2007
70
39th
Female Trouble irl
Rated 10 Nov 2016
55
44th
Wuornos is an awesome subject, but Broomfield is a mediocre documentarist.
Rated 09 Jul 2017
66
51st
I think it would have been far more powerful to just record Aileen and show court footage. Broomfield's narration and presence are a distraction.
Rated 14 Oct 2007
76
74th
Great sequel to a great doco... he final words of Aileen are priceless
Rated 07 Feb 2010
76
87th
Effective indictment of capital punishment, and presentation of a world that seems to drive nearly everybody in it crazy. As in Broomfield's earlier film on Wuornos, perhaps the most shocking aspect is the interconnection between police work and movie deals. Reminiscent of CLOSE-UP when the filmmaker becomes involved in the appeal. Ultimately very sad.
Rated 31 Jan 2011
35
90th
"The only reality here is that truth is slippery, and that's something Broomfield understands more than most documentary filmmakers working today." - Ed Gonzalez
Rated 17 Apr 2011
81
74th
I should say I haven't seen the first film and I think it hindered my appreciation of this. With that said Broomfield does and admirable job of presenting his bias in the film while still making a point: that Aileen is mentally unstable and the execution of such a person is a barbaric practice. Whether or not it was murder seems like it's up in the air but can you really kill someone when that's the case? In Floria it appears so.
Rated 12 Aug 2014
85
68th
Not even Charlize Theron's striking portrayal of the accused can rival the entrancing real thing, whose premeditated admissions of regret hardly mask her cancerous rage at a life span of abuse, oppression, exploitation and neglect.
Rated 17 Aug 2015
70
64th
Tragedy abounds in Broomfield's second Aileen documentary.
Rated 11 Oct 2015
75
85th
Distressing. The state again assuming the right to kill, so unsurprising. And every time someone mentions Aileen as a 'a female serial killer' I want to throw up a little. In Melbourne one would think Jarrad Matthews, in the US it is Aileen.
Rated 12 Jun 2017
50
33rd
More a personal account of a filmmaker's experience -- is she honest or performative? -- and obsession in interviewing her than actually a life-and-death film. Aileen provides catchy testimonies -- one time she's sober, in the last conversation she talks about crooked cops and tells that Iraq will destroy US in 2019 --, but Broomfield is maybe too control freak to let the movie breathe. Aileen was such a fan of Independence Day that in her final words she said she would return in Emmerich-style.
Rated 13 Aug 2018
73
46th
One of those stories where all parties involved are equally fascinating and strange, even the documentarian.
Rated 30 Nov 2021
60
88th
Stark contrast between the vibrant, chaotic personality of a woman who has suffered a life of abuse, and the limp handshake narration
Rated 19 Dec 2023
65
9th
Not a huge documentary fan anymore, but this one stuck with me.

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