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  Hillside Strangler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Hillside Strangler is the media epithet for two men, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, cousins who were convicted of kidnapping, raping, torturing, and killing girls and women ranging in age from twelve to twenty-eight years old during a four-month period from late 1977 to early 1978 in the hills above Los Angeles, USA.
The Stranglers once stopped Catherine Lorre with the intent of abducting her, but after learning that she was the daughter of Peter Lorre, they let her go.
The murders were the basis of the 2004 film The Hillside Strangler and Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006), and a TV movie starring Dennis Farina, The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hillside_Strangler   (886 words)

  
 Positively 18th Street: The Hillside Strangler
One of the most infamous sections of the Eisenhower is affectionately called by some the "Hillside Strangler," or the "Strangler" for short.
The "Hillside Strangler" is a part of the Eisenhower that passes through a town called Hillside, IL where 3 major Chicago expressways all merge into three narrow lanes of bonfided Eisenhower Expressway creating a "strangling" effect.
Apparently they spent 97.5 million dollars in the summer of 2001 on a construction project to "unstrangle" the strangler, but you could have fooled me because not only is it still "strangled," but if you look around during rush hour you can actually see the drivers in their cars trying to strangle themselves as well.
www.positively18th.com /2004/07/hillside-strangler.html   (671 words)

  
 The Hillside Strangler
First off, we should state that the name "Hillside Strangler" was created by the media before it became known that there were actually two individuals responsible for the murders.
Like Ted Bundy, the monster who actually inspired the term "serial killer", the Hillside Stranglers were sexual predators; although they did not perform acts of ghoulism on their victims, they showed the same amount of hatred and sadism by torturing their victims and showing no compassion or remorse.
Another troubling aspect of the Hillside Strangler case is that two individuals committed these crimes together, making it a rare case involving team killers.
www.hillside-strangler.com   (431 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Hillside Strangler (Unrated Edition): DVD: Chuck Parello,C. Thomas Howell,Nicholas Turturro,Allison ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The police would go on to dub the handiwork of these two fiends as being that of "The Hillside Strangler", as the police did not realize that two individuals were involved, until after Kenneth, the weaker of the two, was apprehended.
The Hillside Strangler is based on the horrific events of the cousins Kenneth Bianchi (C. Thomas Howell) and Angelo Buono (Nicholas Turturro), which took place in Los Angeles during the late 1970's.
Hillside Strangler is a brutal film that occasionally borderlines pornography as it depicts the cousins' exploitations.
www.amazon.com /Hillside-Strangler-Unrated-Chuck-Parello/dp/B0002YLD46   (3012 words)

  
 hillsidestrangler_review
There is a review at the Internet Movie Database which describes THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER as a "reprise of the (British) video nasty", which is an accurate summery of Chuck Parello’s grim and disturbing documentation of a true-life series of sadistic crimes which occurred in Los Angeles during the late seventies.
Although the murderers were dubbed by the press at the time as "the Hillside Strangler", the killings were actually perpetrated by two men, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who posed as policemen and targeted prostitutes and female motorists.
Tartan’s DVD of THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER was one of the company’s first releases on the American market and it is an improvement over their British DVD releases in terms of quality, extras and presentation.
www.cinema-nocturna.com /hillsidestrangler_review.htm   (1075 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Hillside Strangler at Epinions.com
Hillside Strangler is not a mystery, or a drama, or a police detective movie.
Hillside Strangler is about the well-know "Hillside Strangler" crime spree that mesmerized Los Angeles in the late 1970s.
There were quite a few pretty women in the film, but none of their names were familiar to me. For the most part they make a brief debut, quickly appear nude with the two killers, then end up as a corpse.
www.epinions.com /content_286360440452   (673 words)

  
 Village of Hillside | Hillside Bottleneck Plans for Expansion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
IDOT - The Hillside Bottleneck road improvement project is designed to reduce congestion, increase mobility, and improve traffic safety on the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) from the East-West Tollway (I-88) and, the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) to east Mannheim Road (US 12/20/45).
The road improvements associated with the Hillside Bottleneck project are only one part of a long rage plan to reduce the congestion that motorists experience driving on the Eisenhower Expressway.
Village of Hillside : The Hub of the Western Suburbs est.
www.hillside-il.org /news/hillside_bottleneck.shtml   (335 words)

  
 The Hillside Strangler - Moviefone
The Hillside Strangler (2004) "The Hillside Strangler' is a low budget movie based on a true event that happened in 1977 in Los Angeles, with the police chasing one serial killer when...
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The Hillside Strangler - Movie Review Review of the movie The Hillside Strangler - They lived to watch you die.
movies.aol.com /movie/the-hillside-strangler/19105/main   (180 words)

  
 Hillside Strangler
HILLSIDE STRANGLER posits an alternative theory about the serial killings that rocked San Francisco in the late 1970s.
Dumbed down and sexed up, 'Hillside' cashes in on the overtly lurid aspects of the murders while giving short shrift to the more interesting psychological aspects of the case.
This relentlessly unpleasant film documents the true story of cousins whose murder spree in late 1970's Los Angeles was at first attributed to a lone killer known as the Hillside Strangler.
rottentomatoes.com /m/1136058-hillside_strangler   (501 words)

  
 ISGS ESAS "Hillside Strangler Project"
This fast-track project addressed what was nationally recognized as one of the worst traffic-congested expressway areas in the United States.
The “Strangler,” given its name because of a bottleneck of expressways, involves the interchanges of the I-290/Eisenhower Expressway with the I-294/ Tri-State and I-88/East-West Tollways near six communities, including major portions of Hillside, Westchester, and Bellwood.
The resulting preliminary environmental site assessment report provided to IDOT by the ISGS for the “Hillside Strangler” was completed in less than half the time normally allotted a project of this scope.
www.isgs.uiuc.edu /esa/casestrangler.htm   (147 words)

  
 Political Film Society - The Hillside Strangler
The Hillside Strangler, directed by Chuck Parello, is an independent film with amateurish acting and cinematography that attempts to recreate events of 1978-1979, when young women were strangled and then dumped in the Glendale hillsides near Los Angeles.
(A second film entitled The Hillside Strangler, but directed by Chris Fisher, is ready to be released soon.) Rather than following a Law and Order formula, Parello's version is presented in the manner of a pornographic snuff film that looks into the psychological components of two stranglers, not one.
As a quasidocudrama of a gruesome part of the history of Los Angeles, The Hillside Strangler might have been presented more professionally, but alas the film contains an excessive amount of brutality, notably a how-to-do-it course on alternative methods of committing homicide.
www.geocities.com /polfilms/hillsidestrangler.html   (523 words)

  
 The Hillside Strangler - Movie Review
In 'The Hillside Strangler', however, Parello avoids at least the last of these pitfalls by refusing to grant his killers a single redeeming feature.
Although one or both of the cousins is on screen for the entire film (apart from the bizarre-but-true coda concerning one of the cousin's even more unhinged acquaintances), instead of being portrayed as misunderstood heroes or victims of circumstance, they remain utterly repellent figures from start to finish.
Like a sort of diabolic cousin to 'Boogie Nights', 'The Hillside Strangler' is an unflinching dissection of the sleazy sex and broken dreams of the 1970s - and the film's sordid unpleasantness is itself a faithful evocation of the feel-bad vibe that dominated seventies cinema.
www.movie-gazette.com /cinereviews/1000   (676 words)

  
 The Hillside Strangler
Even among hardcore genre aficionados, The Hillside Strangler is likely to cause more than its fair share of discomfort.
Outside of the tawdry unpleasantness of the murders themselves, the entire tone of film is one of unrelieved misery.
Directed by Chuck Parello, who's made a niche for himself in the serial killer sub-genre since helming the underrated sequel Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer 2 as well as Ed Gein, The Hillside Strangler may be Parello's apex in the genre.
www.undertakerslounge.com /hillside.htm   (848 words)

  
 The Hillside Stranglers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In precisely two months time, the so-called "Hillside Stranglers" would abduct and slay ten women, frequently abandoning their naked bodies in a kind of grim display, as if to taunt authorities.
The last to die, at least in California, was Cindy Hudspeth, found in the trunk of her car after it was pushed over a cliff in the Angeles National Forest.
Collaboration with L.A. authorities led to Bianchi's indictment in five of the Hillside murders, during June 1979.
www.carpenoctem.tv /killers/hillside.html   (1273 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - 'Hillside Strangler' dies in prison   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
SACRAMENTO (AP) — Angelo Buono Jr., whose gruesome killing of young Los Angeles women in the 1970s earned him the nickname "Hillside Strangler," died Saturday in prison, corrections officials said.
The bodies were disposed of on the wooded hillside not far away.
In 1986, Buono took a wife while behind bars, marrying Christine Kizuka, a mother of three and supervisor at the Los Angeles office of the state Employment Development Department.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2002-09-21-hillside_x.htm   (373 words)

  
 The Hillside Strangler DVD Movie Review by AceGamez
Told in the awful film Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders, it seems that Bianchi attempted to convince the police, and actually succeeded to some extent, that he had a split personality who actually did the killings instead of him.
The Hillside Strangler is almost what Wolf Creek would have been if it had been half as gory and had some closure.
Just like the Strangler's victims, this film should be choked to death and left on the side of the road.
www.acegamez.co.uk /reviews_dvd/The_Hillside_Strangler_DVD.htm   (908 words)

  
 Hillside Strangler
Without any doubt one of the most heinous serial killing sprees ever was in 1977-1979 in Los Angles California, the Hillside Strangler murders.
Actually, this was a rare phenomenon; this was a team of serial killers, Kenneth Bianchi (C. Thomas Howell) and his adopted cousin Angelo Buono (Nicholas Turturro).
For this genre of film the bar is set very high, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, is the watershed mark and was so well done that any film pales in comparison.
www.hometheaterinfo.com /hillside_strangler.htm   (1066 words)

  
 Hillside Strangler (2004) Movie Review - RopeofSilicon.com
Hillside Strangler is a Arclight Films release directed by Chuck Parello and was released on October 8, 2004.
Dramatizing one of America's most gruesome serial killer cases, two aspiring pimps murder a prostitute and after displaying her naked body on a hillside, embark on a killing spree that grips southern California in a reign of terror for two years.
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www.ropeofsilicon.com /review.php?id=1298   (144 words)

  
 'Hillside Strangler' files claim for wages   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
BELLINGHAM -- Kenneth Bianchi, convicted in the "Hillside Strangler" serial murder case, has filed a claim against Whatcom County seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars for lost wages and emotional distress.
Bianchi claims that police and prosecutors withheld key evidence, leading him to plead guilty to the murders of seven women in 1979.
Two of the victims were students at Western Washington University, and the five others were women strangled and left on open hillsides in Los Angeles in late 1977 and early 1978.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/76267_hillside27.shtml   (536 words)

  
 The Hillside Strangler - Review Hollywood North Report
The Hillside Strangler is a film about two cousins Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono, who went on a murderous rampage in L.A during the late 70’s.
The Hillside Strangler for me had moments that were hard to watch.
Manly cause I feel these are some things that people really shouldn’t have to watch but if you want to be shocked this movie should do the job.
www.hollywoodnorthreport.com /review.php?Review=717   (435 words)

  
 The Hillside Strangler Movie Review - BLOODY-DISGUSTING.COM
To be fair to the creative duo, my knowledge of the actual HILLSIDE STRANGLER case is much more limited than with Gein, so any deviations from reality taken here would be outside my focus.
Irregardless of my feelings about their ED GEIN film, THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER is a winner.
THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER is one of the best true crime films to come down the pike in a long, long time.
www.bloody-disgusting.com /review.php?id=538   (776 words)

  
 EI > DVD > Hillside Strangler, The (2004)
The Hillside Strangler is the heartwarming tale of two cousins, Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono.
Taking a cue from “Henry, Portrait of a serial Killer”, The Hillside Strangler takes an almost documentary approach to its subjects.
The lives of the two men are examined as if to see how they come to arrive as killers.
www.einsiders.com /reviews/dvd/show_dvd.php?review_dvd=259   (697 words)

  
 Worldandnation: 'Hillside Strangler' dies in prison at 67
Worldandnation: 'Hillside Strangler' dies in prison at 67
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Angelo Buono Jr., whose gruesome killing of young Los Angeles women in the 1970s earned him the nickname "Hillside Strangler," died Saturday in his prison cell, corrections officials said.
Buono, 67, was found dead in his cell at Calipatria State Prison in Imperial County, said Bob Martinez, a spokesman for the state Department of Corrections.
www.sptimes.com /2002/09/22/Worldandnation/_Hillside_Strangler__.shtml   (233 words)

  
 Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, the Hillside Stranglers - The Crime library
So when three women were found strangled and dumped naked on hillsides northeast of the city between October and early November of 1977, very few people lost sleep over it.
Everything changed Thanksgiving week when five young women and girls were found on hillsides in the Glendale-Highland Park area.
These five young women one of which was 12, another only 14 were not prostitutes, but "nice girls" who had been abducted from their middle-class neighborhoods.
crimelibrary.com /serial_killers/predators/stranglers/rampage_1.html   (617 words)

  
 The Hillside Strangler - Timeline of Events Part 5
The Hillside Strangler - Timeline of Events Part 5
Upon her arrival, she sends a letter to the Bellingham police telling them they have arrested the wrong man in connection with the Hillside Strangler murders.
In the letter, she even refers to the "latest" strangling attempt, not thinking for a moment that the woman who survived could identify her.
www.hillside-strangler.com /hillside_strangler-timeline_005.htm   (455 words)

  
 British Fantasy Society - Archive - Reviews - The Hillside Strangler (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Tartan films has gained a reputation for making films of quality and interest about serial killers to meet an insatiable public demand for movies dealing with the flipside of the American dream and society’s dark underbelly.
The world in general seems to have an endless appetite for the activities of the disenfranchised and dispossessed, and a need to understand what makes certain individuals choose activities so beyond the boundaries of normal behaviour.
Films like The Hillside Strangler go someway to answering these questions but ultimately it’s an area that remains open to continued speculation.
www.britishfantasysociety.org.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /archive/reviews/hillsidestrangler.htm   (334 words)

  
 Positively 18th Street: The Hillside Strangler (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Positively 18th Street: The Hillside Strangler (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu)
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This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
www.positively18th.com.cob-web.org:8888 /2004/07/hillside-strangler.html   (680 words)

  
 Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
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